A latest Gallup ballot discovered extra Republican ladies have gotten gun house owners than earlier than, whereas gun possession amongst Democratic-leaning males declines.
In keeping with the Gallup survey revealed Thursday, the proportion of Republican feminine gun house owners has elevated from 19% from 2007-2012 to 33% from 2019-2024.
Twenty-two p.c of Republican ladies surveyed in 2013-2018 advised Gallup they owned weapons, which means there was a 50% enhance in gun possession amongst conservative ladies since.
“In the meantime, the speed has fallen seven proportion factors amongst Democratic males, to 29%, and is down 5 factors amongst impartial males, to 39%,” Gallup added. “Republican males stay the more than likely gun house owners amongst gender and occasion identification subgroups, at 60%.”
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A brand new examine discovered extra Republican ladies personal weapons than earlier than. (iStock)
The speed of gun possession nationwide continues to be round 30%, Gallup famous, however the quantity “masks a pointy enhance in possession amongst Republican ladies offsetting declines amongst Democratic and impartial males.
“In the meantime, possession stays excessive amongst Republican males however is comparatively scarce amongst Democratic and impartial ladies.”
Males are nonetheless usually extra prone to personal weapons than ladies, and the examine concluded that gun possession “could also be influenced by one’s political views greater than previously, seemingly due to the salience of the gun concern in political campaigns and political tradition right this moment.”
Vice President Kamala Harris just lately introduced she owns a gun, prompting shock throughout the nation, however Republican ladies weren’t essentially wooed by the admission.
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A lady fires a gun on the Maryland Small Arms Vary in Higher Marlboro, Md. (Getty Photographs)
“I’ve a Glock, and I’ve had it for fairly a while,” Harris stated throughout a “60 Minutes” interview.
Earlier in November, Fox Information Digital spoke with feminine gun house owners who reacted to the assertion, calling it “smokescreen marketing campaign rhetoric.”
“I don’t consider that she is a gun proprietor that practices and helps our proper to guard ourselves,” Jane Milhans, a gun teacher, stated.
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Cindy Scott, a gun teacher, shoots a handgun at “A Lady and A Gun” taking pictures goal on the taking pictures vary on the Texas Gun Membership in League Metropolis, Texas. (Getty Photographs)
“When Kamala Harris began speaking about proudly owning a Glock, I felt nothing,” Amara Barnes, founding father of the Girls Gun House owners Affiliation of America, advised Fox Information Digital. “All of us understand that it is pandering and advantage signaling to the correct, and she or he’s hoping that we’re too dumb to not understand that she is totally anti-gun.”
Fox Information Digital’s Hannah Ray Lambert contributed to this report.
