Gun ownership has especially boomed among women. Between 2019 and 2021, as gun purchases exploded, about half of firearm customers were women, according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public ...

A study by the anti-gun violence group, the Violence Policy Center, found that in 2017, there were only 298 "justifiable homicides" in the U.S. involving a private citizen using a gun, as reported ...

From eight-year-old ‘influencers’ to trans anarchists, today’s gun owners aren’t who you think - IN FOCUS: The demographics of gun ownership are changing, with a huge uptick in Black and Latino people ...

In 2022, women in groups such as Moms Demand Action push to regulate gun ownership. But an earlier group of women expanded the role of guns in American society.

In 2019, Montana recorded 1.5 gun murders per 100,000 population and 2.5 murders per 100,000 population. In Massachusetts - which tied with New Jersey for lowest gun ownership in the country at 14 ...

Harris’s gun ownership is less surprising than her riff on who would be shot. The vice president made a remark about the gun in her home that reflects changing patterns of ownership even as it ...

Five of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in America over the past eight years have been in Texas, the latest occurring in Allen in early May when a gunman fired an AR-15-style rifle at a crowded ...

The demographics of gun ownership have changed little in recent years. Gun ownership is far more common among residents of rural areas (47%) than among people living in suburbs (30%) or urban areas ...

Meanwhile, gun ownership among Democratic women remains relatively rare. The sales increase seems to coincide with the partisan culture wars, Jeff Jones, a Gallup senior editor told USA TODAY.

Black gun ownership dates back to before the country's founding. In "Armed Doesn't Mean Dangerous," photographer Christian K. Lee captures the growing number of Black Americans who own firearms.

During the Trump administration, Black gun ownership rates rose, and in 2020, of all demographic groups, Black Americans saw the sharpest increase in gun purchases at the start of the year.

Gun ownership and support of the Second Amendment are not exclusively Republican. In 2018, “16% of Democrats owned at least one gun, and 28% lived in a gun household,” reports Statistica.