Found the source for the 40% private sale stat...

[JimmyR]

In a survey from 1997! My college and grad school educated brain can't fathom while this data is considered relevant.

Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms | National Institute of Justice

 

[ditto]

Nice find. The scary thing is that a lot of people will simply take him at his word. They'll believe him because it's what they want to hear / what they've been brainwashed into believing they need to hear.

 

[drillsgt]

The survey data was actually from 1994 and published in 1997 so it's even older than thought. That 40% number was related to acquisitions from family members or acquaintences not the shady guy at a gun show as they want you to believe. The article was actually amusing if you read around page 8 where they discuss the phenomenal amount of defensive gun use compared to the number of crimes committed with guns. The authors then have to spend paragraph after paragraph trying to explain how this might be wrong. Funny, I don't remember Obama mentioning this part of the study.

 

[drillsgt]

I looked through the NIJ archives but it doesn't appear this survey was ever replicated later on. In fact in reading through some of the minutes from a 2011 working group meeting (stacked with anti's I might add) they acknowledge that the data is almost 20 years old and likely not reliable.