Since the mid-1990s, the US civilian gun stock has grown from approximately 192 million
(65 million handguns) to approximately 265 million (113 million handguns). In 2015, gun …

The household ownership of firearms has declined in recent decades. Table 1 (left side)
shows that the 31.0% of households reported having a firearm in 2014, essentially tying with …

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Objectives: To examine the size and composition of the privately held firearm stock in the
US; and to describe demographic patterns of firearm ownership and motivations for …

Thousands of Americans are killed by gunfire each year, and hundreds of thousands more
are injured or threatened with guns in robberies and assaults. The burden of gun violence in …

The NSPOF used a list-assisted random-digit-dial sampling method in which each
telephone household has essentially equal likelihood of being selected; a total of 2,568 …

The development of the state over the past several millenia has witnessed a transition from
private to public protection of property rights. Recent analysts have argued that public …

The RAND Corporation launched the Gun Policy in America initiative in January 2016 with
the goal of creating objective, factual resources for policymakers and the public on the …

Objectives. To quantify the proportion of current US gun owners who are new to owning
firearms and compare new versus long-standing gun owners with respect to their firearms …

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root
early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of …