Bought more than 1 million firearms so far this year. More than any other state. We are also tracking a major shift in american gun culture. Being armed for protection is now the top reason americans say they own guns. As opposed to for sporting or hunting purposes. Those numbers jumng from 26 to 48 just over the last 14 years. Almost doubling there. While fire wraarm sales are up, number of households with at least one gun is now at less than a third, that is down from a high of 50 back in the year 1977. Msnbcs Tony Dokoupil is at a gun shop and shooting range just outside louisville, in crestwood, kentucky. So, tony, i know youve been talking to gun owners there all day. Gun culture in places like where you are right now is so essential to this debate we see in politics. This debate we see in congress. We see those statistics about the reforms that people want, but the voters, the politicians are most afraid of, it seems, are the sorts of people youre
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