The Long-Term Decline of Gun Ownership in America: 1973 to 2018 (published June 2020)
Jun 01, 2020
- Description
Using data from the General Social Survey (GSS) of the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, this report details the long-term decrease in household and personal gun ownership in the United States from 1973 to 2018 (the most recent year for which GSS data is available).
- Published by
- Violence Policy Center
- Funded by
- Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund
- Issue areas
- Crime and Safety
- Document type
- Dataset
- Report/Whitepaper
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Copyright
- Copyright June 2020 Violence Policy Center.
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- Title
- The Long-Term Decline of Gun Ownership in America: 1973 to 2018 (published June 2020)
- Publication date
- 2020-06-01
- Publication year
- 2020
- Copyright holder(s)
- Violence Policy Center
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Keywords
- ownership, gun, GSS
- Document type
- Dataset, Report/Whitepaper
- URL
- https://gunviolence.issuelab.org/resource/the-long-term-decline-of-gun-ownership-in-america-1973-to-2018-published-june-2020
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