Most American households have at least one gun owner, according to a new survey that also shows a sharp increase in the number of firearms owners over the past decade.
The 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, up from 42% in 2013.
“In the last ten years we have grown [10 points] in the possession of weapons. “It is a surprising number,” Public Opinion Strategies pollster Micah Roberts told the outlet.
“In general, things don’t change as dramatically and as quickly when it comes to something as fundamental as whether you own a gun,” Roberts added.
Most American households have at least one first-time gun owner 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 , according to the November national survey. the survey shows, while only 46% of Americans said the same in 2019.Getty Images
Gun ownership falls roughly along partisan lines: 66% of Republicans, 45% of independents and 41% of Democrats say they or someone in their household owns a firearm.
All of those numbers have 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 shows that gun ownership has nearly doubled among Black voters: 41% now say their household had a firearm owner compared to 24% in August 2019.
“In the last ten years we have grown [10 points] in the possession of weapons. “It is a very surprising 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 there was a gun owner in their household compared to 24% in August. 2019.AP
Gun ownership rates among white voters increased from 53% to 56% during the same period.
Poll participants were almost evenly divided on the issue of gun control, with 48% saying they were most concerned that the government is not regulating access to firearms enough and 47% concerned that authorities go too far in gun restrictions.
That divide has been consistent over the last decade in which the survey was conducted.
About half (48%) say they are most concerned that the government is not regulating access to firearms enough, while 47% are concerned that authorities are going too far with gun restrictions.Getty Images
President Biden established a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in September, putting Vice President Kamala Harris at the helm to advance his administration’s gun control priorities.
These include calls to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, initiate universal background checks for firearm sales, improve 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 required background checks for gun buyers under age 21 and provided funding for violence prevention and mental health programs in schools.
The NBC poll was conducted Nov. 10-14 by Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, and Hart Research, a Democratic polling firm.
The survey counted 1,000 registered voters as respondents, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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