Twice as many Americans carried firearms daily in 2019 compared to 2015, according to a new study published this month.
About 6,000 gun owners carried handguns every day in 2019, up from 3,000 in 2015, according to a study in the American Journal of Public Health published Nov. 16.
The number of online respondents who said they had carried a gun in the past month also nearly doubled from 9 million to 16 million in 2015.
The study focuses solely on owners who carry a firearm on their person, not in their car.
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Twice as many Americans carried firearms daily in 2019 compared to 2015, according to a new study published this month.
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The upward trend found in the study comes as states loosen restrictions on carrying a firearm and more gun owners cite protection as a top concern.
A US Supreme Court case last June also struck down New York’s strict gun laws.
The authors wrote: “This ruling could further catalyze the easing of regulations on carrying firearms in different parts of the country at a time when, as our study indicates, trends in carrying firearms are already pointing to more American adults carrying loaded firearms in public places. even without a permit when a permit is required.”
The study authors said a June US Supreme Court ruling striking down New York’s restrictive gun-carrying laws could “catalyze the relaxation of gun-carrying regulations in different parts of the country.” “.
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The study’s lead authors were Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington; Amy Gallagher of the University of Washington; Deborah Azrael of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center; and Matthew Miller of Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.
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The authors added: “Little is known about the frequency and characteristics of firearms carrying among adult firearm owners in the United States. In fact, in the past 30 years, only a few national peer-reviewed surveys , conducted in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 2015, have provided even the most basic information on the frequency of carrying firearms.”
A gunman allegedly killed five people at a nightclub in Colorado Springs last Saturday.
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In 1994, the percentage of gun owners who said their main reason for owning a firearm was protection was 46%, in 2015 it rose to 64% and skyrocketed to 73% in 2019. In 2021, it was 83%. %.
Only one state allowed the carrying of firearms in 1990, but by 2021 that had risen to 21 states, according to the study.
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The study also comes amid spikes in crime in cities across the country.
