Early results from the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey shows 10 percent of gun owners in the state own about half of all firearms. The majority of gun owners, about 54 percent, have one or two firearms, according to the survey.
What’s more, the survey found that a quarter of respondents said they did not get a background check when they bought a gun, said Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, a researcher who led the study.
“We have only about 75 percent of our respondents reporting that they had a background check done when they bought their most recent firearm in California, so that means anywhere from one in four and one in five people not having a background check,” Kravitz-Wirtz said.
“(This) does not bode well for the implementation and the enforcement of California’s comprehensive background check law which has been in place since the 1990s.” (Michael Finch II, SacBee.com, We Don’t Know Enough About Gun Owners in California)
SacBee: Guns Being Purchased Without Background Checks in California
