As the war over the right to keep and bear arms in America rages on in legislatures and courtrooms across the nation, gun ownership is on the rise. Or is it? NBC has asked the same question of registered voters in the US periodically since 1999: “Do you, or does anyone in your household, own a gun of any kind?” This November, the answer was “yes” for more than half the respondents – a first in the survey’s 25-year span. A longer view of gun ownership over the years, however, casts this story in a different light.
Survey Says: More Guns!
The NBC-sponsored survey is actually conducted by Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies and Democratic polling firm Hart Research. Between November 10 and 14, 1,000 registered voters were asked whether they or someone they lived with owned a firearm. The results, released November 21, showed that 52% answered yes.
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