The Gutowski Files Episode 12: New Poll Indicates A Surge In Gun Ownership

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John Correia and Mike Willever

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss a recent poll indicating a surge in American gun ownership.

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0:00.0	Well, all right again, welcome back to the Gautowski files starring Stephen Gautowski.
0:10.6	Stephen is the founder of the reload.com and the host of the weekly reload podcast and the star of the
0:16.2	Gutowski files I might add and a good friend of mine. Stephen, how are you, sir?
0:19.8	I'm doing well. How are you doing? I'm doing good just I would mention this for the last time
0:24.9	ever we have heard we've heard our audience and we will not talk about anything not
0:29.5	gun related until the very end at which point you can turn this off not be
0:33.2	subjected to it so that's the best part of the show, though. I think, hey, I think so too.
0:54.9	I mean, who, who, I'm professional. I'll just bump my mic. Um, all right. So we have, it does make sense to get right into the news. So what, yeah, what, yeah, I was going to. Yeah, I was, I was about to. So over at the relay, there's an article by Stephen Katowski. It is entitled newsletter, New Pole finds huge jump in gun ownership.
0:57.0	Tell us, Stephen Steven about that who who did the poll and what were they asking yeah so this
1:01.8	polls from NBC News and they were it's a little bit interesting a little bit
1:08.1	different from the other polls that ask about gun ownership
1:11.8	that you typically see from major outlets or, you know, academic institutions or what have you,
1:17.9	because this one asked specifically voters, whether they own guns or have a gun in the home,
1:24.3	and is the first time ever that they found more than half of American voters report having a gun in the home. And it was the first time ever that they found more than half of American voters report
1:30.5	having a gun in the home now.
1:31.5	It's 52%.
1:32.5	And that was a significant increase over the last time they asked this, which was another
1:36.8	key bit because that was 2019.
1:39.7	And as we've talked about a lot on this show and a lot of it over at the reload, you know,
1:44.9	there was big sea change during the pandemic era in 2020 and afterwards where we saw a huge
1:50.2	spike in gun sales and there was some evidence that indicates there was a huge increase in
1:55.7	the number of new gun owners, you know, to the tune of millions, millions and millions of new gun owners
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