{"id":118487,"date":"2026-08-29T14:29:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118487"},"modified":"2026-08-29T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:34:40","slug":"118487","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=118487","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Control – Dismantled<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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2026 National Firearms Survey: Results from the Second Wave, Including Current Ownership of AR-15 Style Rifles, Other “Assault Weapons,” and Magazines that Hold More than 10 Rounds<\/a><\/p>\n

Ownership is demographically diverse:<\/strong>
\n45.7% of validated gun owners are female, 25.6% do not identify as White (alone), and the gap in ownership rates between White Americans (34.6%) and Black Americans (33.0%) has narrowed to less than two percentage points.<\/p>\n

The survey finds that 37.6% of gun owners have used a firearm to defend themselves, their property, a family member, or a member of their household, and it estimates that guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 2.2 million incidents per year.<\/p>\n

In most defensive incidents no shot was fired (76.3%), about half (50.8%) involved more than one assailant, and in 70.6% of incidents respondents report that the defensive use was successful, such that no crime remained to be reported to the police.
\n8.4% of defensive incidents were directed against animal threats rather than criminal threats.
\nSeparate from these self-defense incidents, 34.7% of gun owners reported that the mere presence of a gun has deterred criminal conduct.<\/p>\n

A majority of gun owners (70.0%) indicate that there are some circumstances in which they carry a handgun for self-defense.
\nWe estimate that approximately 33.6 million gun owners (39.3% of those aged 21 and over) are \u201cpublic carriers\u201d who are permitted to carry and carry at least sometimes.<\/p>\n

The average gun owner owns about 5.2 firearms, and handguns are the most common type of firearm owned (91.6% of owners).
\n50.5% of gun owners \u2013 approximately 44.5 million adults \u2013 report that they currently own magazines that hold more than 10 rounds (approximately 539 million such magazines in total), and 88.0% of these owners cite a defensive purpose for owning them.<\/p>\n

25.0% of gun owners currently own an AR-15 type rifle, 12.9% currently own other similarly styled semi-automatic rifles, and 30.0% \u2013 approximately 26.4 million adults \u2013 currently own at least one firearm in one of these two categories, with approximately 40 million AR-15 type rifles and 20 million other similarly styled rifles owned in total.<\/p>\n

Overall, Americans own approximately 461 million firearms, consisting of approximately 208 million handguns, 154 million rifles, and 99 million shotguns.<\/p>\n

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