““If a national pollster asked you if you owned a firearm, would you determine to tell him or her the truth or would you feel it was none of their business?”16 Thirty-five percent of current gun owners said it was none of the pollster’s business. This answer is slightly more common among those who claim not to be gun owners. The same GSS poll—the one that finds gun ownership to be at a record low—also finds that “confidence in all three branches of government is at or near record lows.””
