How would you respond to a telephone survey questioning your status as a gun owner?

[Zach S]

The only time I mention that I'm a gun owner is when FOP bugs me.

When they're begging me for money I inform them that the last time my lady called the police they took 30 mins to get to the house (I actually beat them there), and that I'll not donate to an organization that wants to ban the home defense weapon because of the way it looks.

They normally hang up on me at this point. Three months later they'll call again.

 

[JKimball]

Wow, this is really interesting to me. I must say I'm a bit surprised at the current results of the poll. It is almost 3 gun owners who wouldn't talk about their gun ownership for every 2 that would. For some reason I was expecting most people would select the second option.

To me this suggests that polling people is not an effective way of determining the number of gun owners in America. I expect that the actual number of gun owners is higher than any estimate derived from using this method.

 

[22-rimfire]

There are certain things I won't disclose to a voice on the telephone claiming to be taking a survey. Details on firearm ownership is one of them.

 

[BigStick]

I picked option 2. But I might be willing to open up on a survey by a gun friendly organization like the NRA.

 

[CU74]

Caller ID is your friend...........

 

[cliffy]

Since I have no idea who I'm talking to, Click!

Nuff said . . . cliffy

 

[Poor East Texan]

I chose option three because to be brutally honest anyone that wants to talk to me (customer or friend) calls my cell.

We get so many 800 number calls and "no info" calls on the home phone that nobody even picks it up to see why it's ringing.

I've probably missed out on millions of dollars.... YEAH RIGHT!

 

[Bubbles]

I'd tell them everything that I had in inventory, and the price, warranty, etc.

<-- 07/02

They ain't getting details on my private collection.

 

[3pairs12]

I would tell them I used to own guns but lost them in a trajic canoe accident. Phone surey would be setting off the bells in my head telling me not to disclose crap. I am not ashamed of owning guns but certianly would never discuss it with some random caller.

 

[pbearperry]

I would tell them I sold them all to gang bangers for 10 times their value before Obama gets in the White House.

 

[General Geoff]

Standard response to a survey taker is "By conducting this survey with me, you as a representative of your company agree to pay for my time at a rate of $2.00 per minute. Your parent company will be billed upon conclusion of this survey."

They usually tell me to have a nice day and hang up immediately following that.

 

[Steve Raacke]

I don't have any landline phones in my home. We have cellphones. Any data/survey calls I get would be told that I am not going to spend the minutes I pay for on my plan on those types of calls, then I hang up.

 

[SCKimberFan]

Let me see... I am going to give information about me to some stranger who is calling my house?

I DON"T THINK SO!!!!!

 

[qajaq59]

I do not give out personal information over the telephone to strangers.

Neither do I .... And that includes people that ask here on the web as well.

 

[Deanimator]

I tell acquaintances that I have guns. Hell, I wear an NRA ballcap wherever I go.

On the other hand, being asked over the phone by a total stranger if I have guns, just seems like WAY too easy of a way to troll for likely burglary targets.

 

[LKB3rd]

The same way I respond to any phone survey: "I am sorry I don't participate in phone surveys."

 

[koja48]

I don't participate in any surveys, no matter what the subject.

 

[wally]

You don't have the response in your poll for what I do for *all* telephone solicitations -- HANG UP!

--wally.

 

[GBExpat]

I don't do telephone surveys ... I ask such people to take me off of their list and then file a "Do Not Call" complaint online.

 

[sniper5]

The second I realize it's not a friend, relative, or someone I
have a business relationship with I say "Not interested" and hang up.

 

[MinnMooney]

All phone surveys are hung up on.

As my heading says, I answer absolutely NO surveys.

Many times, they are biased by how they ask the questions so the answers will benefit whoever is behind the survey.

 

[ROVERMAN]

That is easy... NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.

 

[Officers'Wife]

My late uncle taught me an all purpose answer for any kind of survey. "That falls under the heading of my business."

 

[wyocarp]

If I had time, I'd have fun with it.

Wouldn't you rather know about the spaceship I captured. I store all my guns on the spaceship now so that I can leave when the earth is destroyed...

 

[TallPine]

I expect that the actual number of gun owners is higher than any estimate derived from using this method.

Yep