{"id":88119,"date":"2022-11-27T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T05:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88119"},"modified":"2022-11-27T23:06:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T05:06:30","slug":"88119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88119","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Handgun owners carrying daily in US doubled in 4 years; self-protection cited as main reason: study.<\/a><\/p>\n

Twice the number of Americans were\u00a0carrying handguns\u00a0daily in 2019 compared to 2015, according to a new study published this month.<\/p>\n

Around 6,000 gun owners carried handguns every day in 2019, up from 3,000 in 2015, according to a study from the American Journal of Public Health published on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n

The number of respondents to the online survey who said they had carried a gun in the last month also nearly doubled from 9 million to 16 million in 2015.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0study focuses<\/a><\/p>\n

solely on owners carrying a handgun on their person, not in their car.<\/p>\n

Twice the number of Americans were carrying handguns daily in 2019 compared to 2015, according to a new study published this month.
\nThe upward trend found in the study comes as states loosen restrictions for carrying a handgun and more gun owners cite protection as a top concern.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0U.S. Supreme Court\u00a0case last June also overturned strict gun carrying laws in New York.<\/p>\n

The authors wrote, “This ruling could further catalyze the loosening of firearm-carrying regulations in different parts of the country at a time when, as our study indicates, trends in handgun carrying already point to more US adults carrying loaded handguns in public places, including without a permit when a permit is required.”<\/p>\n

The study authors said a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning restrictive gun-carrying laws in New York could “catalyze \u00a0the loosening of firearm-carrying regulations in different parts of the country.”<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s lead authors were\u00a0Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, an epidemiology professor at the University of Washington; Amy Gallagher of the University of Washington; Deborah Azrael of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center; and Matthew Miller from Northeastern University, and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.<\/p>\n

The authors added, “Little is known about the frequency and features of firearm carrying among adult handgun owners in the United States. In fact, over the past 30 years, only a few peer-reviewed national surveys, conducted in 1994, 1995, 1996, and 2015, have provided even the most basic information about firearm carrying frequency.”<\/p>\n

In 1994, the percentage of gun owners who said their main reason for having a firearm was protection was 46%, by 2015 it went up to 64% and spiked to 73% by 2019. In 2021, it was 83%.<\/p>\n

Only one state allowed permit less handgun carry in 1990 but by 2021 it had increased to 21 states, according to the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Handgun owners carrying daily in US doubled in 4 years; self-protection cited as main reason: study. Twice the number of Americans were\u00a0carrying handguns\u00a0daily in 2019 compared to 2015, according to a new study published this month. Around 6,000 gun owners carried handguns every day in 2019, up from 3,000 in 2015, according to a study … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88122,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88119\/revisions\/88122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}