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Who came up with that 25:1 figure and how?
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The figure for 25.9% of all DC adults owning firearms is used in at least 18 peer reviewed studies, which are getting the number from the BMJ
Injury Prevention journal peer reviewed study by epidemiology researchers from Columbia University and Boston University using yougov
http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/cont...oj6vx0laFZMsQ2
The 6,000 comes right from MPD (6,000 registered DC gun owners, owing 10,000 guns).
DC population is `680,000. So about 0.9% legally own guns and about 25% illegally do
Wha is interesting is to look at not just raw numbers but also relative ranking of say New Hampshire, Delaware and DC from the above, vs here:
http://www.bradycampaign.org/sites/d...uicideGuns.pdf
if you want to show suicide is caused by guns, you use the lower DC number (5%), since DC suicide is low. If you want to prove guns cause higher homicide, you use the higher DC number (26%). And if you want to argue gun owners are a shrinking constituency, as gun control advocates do want to, you use GSS of 0.17% (about 1/5 of what DC MPS says)
But that 25.9% number used by gun control advocates including within studies they cite in written court arguments, shows something for certain -- that by citing they themselves are arguing that DC is 25:1, that 25% of DC citizens are illegally armed and less than 1% are legally armed -- and they are worried about the 1% (which is both to orders of magnitude lower, and non criminals too boot) getting carry, and claiming this will cerate large proliferation of guns.