STUDY: In the US, more and more people carry a loaded gun every day

As President Joe Biden and some Senators race to pass legislation, ban assault weapons In the United States, a new study shows that the carrying of loaded weapons has increased in recent years.

Quantity Americans with guns portable doubled from 2015 to 2019, according to a national survey that interviewed adults living in families with guns across the country.

Data for the University of Washington-led study comes from the 2019 National Firearms Survey (NFS). American adult online survey who live in houses with firearms, including almost 2400 gun owners fire.

A new study suggests that by 2019 or so 16 million adult gun owners firearms carried a loaded handgun last month (up from 9 million in 2015) and 6 million wore every day (twice as much as they wore daily in 2015).

“Between the increase in the number of people who own firearms and the number of people who carry them daily, surprising increase in the number of carrying firearms in the US,” said lead author Dr. Ali Rouhani-Rahbar, Professor of Epidemiology and Bartley Dobb Professor of Violence Research and Prevention at UW.

Another interesting fact is that about 7 out of 10 firearm owners said they carried a loaded gun with them. protect yourself from the other personwhich exceeds the number of people who said they wore it, for example, to protect against an animal or for work.

Bye 4 out of 5 firearm owners who reported having firearms they were men3 out of 4 were white and most of them were between the ages of 18 and 44.

Less restrictive laws increase gun carrying

The study also found that a higher proportion of firearm owners carried guns in states with less stringent shipping regulations.

In these states, roughly a third of firearm owners reported carrying a firearm in the past month, while in states with stricter regulationsonly the fifth did.

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