Hardy found a survey of 54K US adults. That makes the survey very accurate.
32% of American adults reported owning a gun.
It estimates that firearms are used in self-defense 1.67 million times a year, supporting Gary Kleck's big study. Half of those occurred outside the home, on the owner's property, and a quarter occurred off his property, supporting the "bearing" of arms being important. In 81% of the cases, no shot was fired, again supporting Klick's study....
...30% have owned an AR-15 or similar rifle. That works out to 25 million Americans owning 44 million of that style of rifle....
But that's not the best stuff. Hardy is a heavy-duty gun-rights lawyer and makes a useful point here:
...the Supreme Court has said that the 2A protects "arms in common use at the time." (I think that's incorrect, BTW. The common use idea comes from the bumbled decision in US v. Miller, where Justice McReynolds simply said that when the militia were called out they were expected to bring arms in common use. That's a description, not a legal test, and one that reflects Miller's focus on militia use, which the Court threw over in Heller, McDonald, and now Bruen)....
So much for 'SCOTUS never errs'....
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