A new Harvard-Northeastern study showing Americans increasingly buy guns for self-defense rather than sport has persuaded one of the study’s authors to conclude that Americans buy guns because of “fear.”
A PEW Research Center poll released on August 26 shows that 44 percent of all households now own a gun.
A Pew Research Center survey released August 26 shows majority support for protecting the right to gun ownership versus passing more laws to control who can own a gun.
A new film, Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?, depicts women withholding sex until men agree to get rid of their guns.
Wyoming has “more guns per capita than any state”–yet they have a gun-related murder rate that is below the national average.
During a May 14 commencement address to Old Miss graduates, retired news anchor and journalist Tom Brokaw said, “more guns … will mean more homegrown acts of terror.”
On March 2, Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Hannah Ferguson defended gun ownership, describing how she learned to shoot and suggesting people who fear firearm ownership do so from a lack of “gun knowledge.”
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump used Facebook to release a new ad yesterday warning that politicians are incrementally weakening the Second Amendment and pledging that he will not allow Americans to be disarmed.
Taya Kyle, widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle, took on President Barack Obama at a town hall on guns on Thursday.
On January 7, The Baltimore Sun gave President Obama kudos for issuing executive orders for gun control, but expressed their desire that he add another measure–a public registry of gun owners.
Last week Rasmussen Reports released two polls showing majorities with guns in their homes believe they are safer for it and “American Adults” believe the policies supported by the NRA make us safer.
Gun dealers in Austria report a boost in weapon sales as concern mounts over the large number of migrants entering the country. An estimated 900,000 privately-owned firearms are held by an Austrian population of just under 8.5 million, but gun dealers are reporting
On October 21, the Washington Post reported their estimate that the number of guns owned in America has doubled in the last 20 years.
After years of gun control proponents claiming gun owners are a dying breed of old white guys who keep the gun industry afloat by hoarding more and more guns to themselves, NBC’s Today show aired a segment showing that millennials have stepped up to become the new face of gun ownership in America.
A recently released Columbia University study shows that 1 in 3 Americans are gun owners. The study was conducted by assistant professor of epidemiology Bindu Kalesan and included an examination of “gun ownership information gathered from study subjects aged 18 years old
A Rasmussen poll released on June 12 shows that only one out of five Americans want to live in a place where they can’t be armed.
On March 9, the Associated Press reported the results of a pro-gun control survey to show that Americans are losing interest in guns.