You two are such frauds. :-)

However, I was interested in the JSTOR article, also, and having immediate access, present the following (unsatisfying) excerpts:

The literature thus suggests two distinct explanations for the disproportionate tendency of Protestants to own guns. The first is that fundamentalists, most of whom are Protestants, are imbued with an individualistic orientation leading them to feel responsible for their own protection (McDowall & Loftin, 1983; Young et al., 1987). Since the time of the American frontier, the firearm has been a symbol of this kind of individualism. As a result, firearms have practical and (for those less concerned with protection) symbolic characteristics that make them especially attractive to fundamentalists. The second explanation has nothing to do with religion. It is that Protestants are more likely to own guns because they tend to grow up and/or live in areas characterized by a tradition of gun ownership that is cultural in nature. The following analysis is designed to assess the relative merits of these two explanations.

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CONCLUSIONS
This research provides one explanation for the often-cited correlation between Protestantism and gun ownership. Part of the answer is that Protestants are more likely to hunt. Although Protestant and non-Protestant hunters are equally likely to own guns, overall membership is higher among Protestants because of their affinity for hunting. The involvement of Protestants in hunting is in turn a function of the fact that they tend to grow up in the rural South, an area where hunting is a cultural tradition. Among non-hunters, Protestants are more likely to own firearms largely because of their ethnic and cultural (including rural) heritage and because they tend to grow up in rural areas where guns are common artifacts of everyday life. Protestantism ceases to be a significant predictor of gun ownership when we take into account the mutually reinforcing effects of frontier ethnic heritage and religious fundamentalism. The individualistic orientation that emanated from the American frontier was strongly reinforced and perpetuated by religious fundamentalism long after the frontier period. On the basis of this research, it appears that the correlation between religious faith and gun ownership is an indirect manifestation of that heritage.

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