Josh Huff was under the impression that every professional athlete owned a gun, or at least that was what the former Eagles wide receiver said last week when asked why he needed hollow-point bullets.
"I'm a professional athlete," Huff said a day after he was arrested on gun, marijuana possession, and other charges. "What professional athlete don't have a gun."
But an informal polling of 37 players from the Eagles' 53-man roster found only 18 who owned a firearm. While it is difficult to get an accurate reading from a random poll, Gallup has had the national percentage of gun ownership somewhere around the low 40s over the last 50 years.