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Top 5 Most Popular Guns - and Why

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BobM

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A simplistic, informative, descriptive and fairly current article about the top most popular guns and why author thinks so. It appears to be somewhat condensed, but offers some interesting and informative information. Article has a verbal description link of article as well as written - to actually hear article instead of reading. A bit curious, I used both. The verbal article's nice with a few minor verbal discrepancies, but is still understandable. There's also several links that will connect reader to similar articles.

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Top 5 Most Popular Guns - and Why

Whether they're antique rifles or modern handguns and shotguns, firearms are popular in the United States. So which pieces are people packing?
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What nonsense is 180%? 58% pistols, 63% shotguns and 59% rifles? Say what? Us this as a single gun or as an average of what that person has in the collection? Did I miss something? Interesting!
 
TEXASforLIFE said:
The 180% is the issue more than the "more of 1 or each". Trying to figure out how the numbers were used? If you give 1 then you take 1 or 2 away being a 3 catagory.
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I don't see 180% anywhere. I see 3 separate categories.

Out of all the people 58% own 1 or more pistols.
Out of all the people 63% own 1 or more shotguns.
Out of all the people 59% own 1 or more rifles.

The 3 categories are unrelated to each other. I am a statistic in all 3 categories.
 
I was puzzled by some of the selections. When I checked the Citation box at the bottom of the article, I received the following:

William Harris "Top 5 Most Popular Guns - and Why" 3 November 2009.
HowStuffWorks.com. <https://science.howstuffworks.com/5-most-popular-guns.htm> 10 September 2021

I'm not sure what convinced the website to publish a 12 year-old article today. Any study of what is "Most Popular" really should be current. A list of the "Top 5 Most Popular Movie Producers" from 2009 would most likely feature Harvey Weinstein, and would not be an accurate reflection of the current situation. I actually enjoy reading retro and nostalgia articles, but I prefer for them to be labeled as such.
 
wmg1299 said:
I was puzzled by some of the selections. When I checked the Citation box at the bottom of the article, I received the following:

William Harris "Top 5 Most Popular Guns - and Why" 3 November 2009.
HowStuffWorks.com. <https://science.howstuffworks.com/5-most-popular-guns.htm> 10 September 2021

I'm not sure what convinced the website to publish a 12 year-old article today. Any study of what is "Most Popular" really should be current. A list of the "Top 5 Most Popular Movie Producers" from 2009 would most likely feature Harvey Weinstein, and would not be an accurate reflection of the current situation. I actually enjoy reading retro and nostalgia articles, but I prefer for them to be labeled as such.
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Agreed. I missed that.
Generally look for header dates and label articles accordingly. Some dates are buried elsewhere or non existent.
 
BobM said:
Agreed. I missed that.
Generally look for header dates and label articles accordingly. Some dates are buried elsewhere or non existent.
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I usually get a kick out of older articles because I like to see what was "the best" at the time the article was written. This article seems to have been well-intentioned. Old data only bothers me when "experts" use it to try and prove that gun ownership is evil and armed self-defense is a myth.
 
wmg1299 said:
I usually get a kick out of older articles because I like to see what was "the best" at the time the article was written. This article seems to have been well-intentioned. Old data only bothers me when "experts" use it to try and prove that gun ownership is evil and armed self-defense is a myth.
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-Yes, here too. Imagine many to most of us feel about the same.
 
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