McLaughlin & Associates Higher crime rates and the war in Ukraine are both working to reduce support for more gun control.
Survey on gun ownership
A Gallup survey on gun ownership shows that asking if people own a gun in their home is not the same as if they own a gun
We have done a lot of work on the biases in surveys of gun ownership (see here and here). But we should point out that a Gallup survey shows that simply asking people if they own a gun in the home, they are missing a couple or few percent of people who may own a gun...
Does the United States need stricter gun control laws?: Most Americans say “No” by a 49% to 42% margin.
Rasmussen Reports has a new survey on support for stricter gun control laws. They interviewed 1,000 Americans from January 30-31, 2022 and the margin of error in the survey was +/-3%. By a 49%-to-42% margin, Americans opposed stricter gun control. This is slightly...
Rasmussen Reports Survey: 31% of those who support a national gun registry and 40% of Democrats believe that a national registry will lead to the confiscation of “all guns”
According to a Rasmussen Reports Survey, likely voters in the US are evenly divided on whether there should be national gun registration. While Republicans oppose the idea by a two-to-one margin, Democrats support it by a similar margin. What is most interesting is...
New Quinnipiac University Poll Shows more Americans oppose more gun control than support it, Huge Partisan Divide
A new Quinnipiac University Poll shows that Americans oppose stricter gun control laws by a 49% to 45% margin. As we have pointed out with a new Gallup poll, the partisan divide on this issue has never been so large. With Gallup, 91% of Democrats and 24% of...
New Survey on Gun Ownership by Rasmussen Reports: Black and other Minority household gun ownership rates both at 40%
A new Rasmussen Report Survey finds that about 43% of households for likely US voters own guns. What is most interesting is that the household gun ownership rates for blacks (40%), other minorities (40%), Democrats (38%), even those who strongly approve of Biden...
At Real Clear Politics: Support for More Gun Control Falls, But Partisan Gap Grows
The partisan divide on gun control has never been so large — 91% of Democrats and only 24% of Republicans support stricter laws.
Large shift in Republican’s views on Gun Control over the last two years, Americans equally divided on whether more guns mean less crime or more crime
Recent surveys by Pew Research Center and Gallup have a couple of interesting findings. Americans are equally divided on whether more gun ownership leads to more or less crime or has no effect. -- The drop in support for gun control has been driven largely by changes...
Black Gun Ownership Soars in 2020, firearm sales for blacks increased by 58.2% during the first half of 2020
The CPRC has already documented the huge increase in concealed handgun permits by blacks. From 2015 to 2019/2020, in the four states that provide data by race over that time period, the number of black people with permits increased almost 55.6% faster than the number...
Rasmussen Report shows 47% of American households own guns, 27% of households with guns have bought one in the last six months
A new Rasmussen Report survey shows that 47 percent of American households own a gun, with 5 percent either not sure/refusing to answer the question. Assuming that 47 percent of those who aren't sure or refusing to answer whether they own a gun actually do, half of...
How badly does the media bias people’s views on the types of deaths from firearms?
A new survey from American Associate for Public Opinion Research shows that Americans are much more likely to think that mass shootings and other types of homicides make up a much larger share of total homicides than they do. The huge gap between how people think...
Democratic Pollster Doug Schoen explains why gun control will be the unifying theme for Democrats in the 2020 election
If you ever wonder why Michael Bloomberg is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into gun control research at the same time that he spent $110 million last year on Congressional races and even more on state legislative races, this article by Democrat pollster Doug...