K: I doubt gun ownership fell that much, to be honest. It seems more likely that people stopped admitting to anonymous voices on the phone that they had guns in the house.
That might be true for a percentage point or two, but would not account for a ~35% drop in home gun ownership rates (gallup) - which is ~15 percentage points (48 - 33), not to be confused with % loss of 35%.
Technically you are half correct, it was more like a 25% decline for personal gun ownership - 28% rate, declining to 22% rate. I was approximating from memory.
march 2013: The Pew Research Center has tracked gun ownership since 1993, and our surveys largely confirm the General Social Survey trend. In our December 1993 survey, 45% reported having a gun in their household; in early 1994, the GSS found 44% saying they had a gun in their home. A January 2013 Pew Research Center survey found 33% saying they had a gun, rifle or pistol in their home, as did 34% in the 2012 wave of the General Social Survey.
The Gallup Organization has been tracking gun ownership in their surveys over this time period as well, but their trend suggests no consistent decline. A Gallup survey in May 1972 found 43% reporting having a gun in their home. The percentage subsequently fluctuated a great deal, reaching a high of 51% in 1993 and a low of 34% in 1999 – but the percentage saying they had a gun in their home last year was the same as it was 40 years earlier (43%).
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2013/03/12/section-3-gun-ownership-trends-and-demographics/
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