Poll: Gun ownership reaches record high with American electorate

[NickB79]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/shows/meetthepress/blog/rcna126037

More than half of American voters -- 52% -- say they or someone in their household owns a gun, per the latest NBC News national poll.

That's the highest share of voters who say that they or someone in their household owns a gun in the history of the NBC News poll, on a question dating back to 1999.

In 2019, 46% of Americans said that they or someone in their household owned a gun, per an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. And in February 2013, that share was 42%.

"In the last ten years, we've grown [10 points] in gun ownership. That's a very stunning number," said Micah Roberts of Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm that co-conducted the poll with members of the Democratic polling firm Hart Research.

[dembotoz]

1. friend of mine...a gay lefty is buying a gun for self defense for use at home

its a matter of feeling safe.
A condo with 2 men in it is suspect......

Something spooked him. I don't know what....

have pondered getting one myself...death threats do that....the
fact i have not bought one has more to do with budget and procrastination than anything else.
Well that and my eyesight kept me out of nam on draft day.....and my vision has not gotten better....

[Sal_NV]

2. I have extensive firearm training, military and civilian,

I would strongly support a federal law that ties training in the do's and don'ts of firearms self defense laws of the state one lives in, also, firearms safety, at least a 40 hour course at a firearm range with the weapons that one wants to own, background checks, both federal and state for all private sales.

I don't currently carry, but I do have a concealed weapons permit, I just don't exercise my license due to the fact that I live in a pretty safe county.