A new Economist/YouGov poll said that nearly 4 in 10 American households have guns.
An estimated 40 percent of households in the United States have at least one gun owner, a new poll has found.
According to the Economist/YouGov poll, about 24 percent of American adults surveyed said they personally own a gun and 15 percent said they do not personally own one but someone in their home does.
Another 56 percent said no one in the household owns a gun, and 4 percent were not sure.
On the subject of gun control, 48 percent of Americans said laws governing the sale of firearms should be made more strict, 18 percent said they should be less strict, and 31 percent wanted no change.
A measure to expand gun-purchase background checks failed in the Senate last April, and Congress has not passed any significant gun-related legislation since the shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012.
A scientific study published by the American Journal of Medicine in September found that the rate of gun violence is positively correlated with gun ownership rates, supporting arguments put forth by many critics who blame the notoriously liberal gun control laws in the US for the high rate of gun violence in the country.
According to the Brady Campaign, the current background check system in the US only applies to about 60 percent of gun sales, leaving 40 percent of sales, including online sales and purchases at gun shows, without a background check.
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Source: Press TV