The majority of American households include at least one gun owner, according to a new survey that also shows a sharp increase in the number of gun owners over the past decade.
An NBC News national poll found that 52% of Americans say they or someone in their household owns a firearm, the highest share since the outlet first surveyed the question in 1999.
In 2019, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that 46% of Americans said they or someone in their household owned a gun, while 42% said the same in 2013.
“In the last ten years, we have grown [10 points] in the possession of firearms. That’s an amazing number,” Public Opinion Strategies pollster Micah Roberts told the outlet.
“Overall, things don’t change dramatically that quickly when it comes to something as basic as whether you own a gun,” Roberts added.
A majority of American households have at least one gun owner for the first time recorded in a poll conducted by NBC News since 1999. Getty Images Fifty-two percent of Americans say they or someone in their household owns a firearm, the November citizen survey shows, while only 46% of Americans say the same in 2019.Getty Images
Gun ownership falls roughly along party lines, with 66% of Republicans, 45% of independents and 41% of Democrats saying they or someone in their household owns a gun.
Those numbers have all increased over the past two decades, as a 2004 NBC poll found that 57% of Republican respondents, 41% of independent respondents and 33% of Democratic respondents said their household had a gun owner.
The survey also showed that gun ownership has nearly doubled among black voters, with 41% now saying their household has a gun owner compared to 24% in August 2019.
“In the last ten years, we have grown [10 points] in the possession of firearms. That’s an amazing number,” Public Opinion Strategies pollster Micah Roberts told the outlet. Getty Images The poll also shows that gun ownership has nearly doubled among black voters, with 41% now saying their household has a gun owner compared to 24% in August 2019.AP
The rate of gun ownership among white voters has increased from 53% to 56% during the same period.
Survey participants were almost evenly split on the issue of gun control, with 48% saying they were more concerned that the government would not adequately control access to firearms and 47% concerned that authorities would go too far in gun restrictions.
That divide has been consistent over the past decade that polls have been conducted.
About half (48%) say they are more concerned that the government is not regulating access to firearms sufficiently, while 47% are concerned that authorities will go too far in restricting firearms.Getty Images
President Biden established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention at the White House in September, placing Vice President Kamala Harris as its head to continue his administration’s gun control priorities.
These include calls to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, institute universal background checks for gun sales, increase red flag laws and eliminate legal immunity for gun manufacturers, among others.
Biden, 81, signed the bipartisan Safe Communities Act into law last year following the killing of 21 schoolchildren in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
The law mandates background checks for gun buyers under the age of 21 and provides funding for violence prevention and school-based mental health programs.
The NBC poll was conducted Nov. 10-14 by Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, and Hart Research, a Democratic polling firm.
The poll counted 1,000 registered voters as respondents, with a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.1 percentage points.
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