More Republican women buying guns: Gallup

Gun ownership among Republican women has grown in recent years, a new survey found.

According to Gallup’s annual measurement of gun ownership across the country, the percentage of Republican women who own a gun has increased from 19 percent in 2007 to 2012 to 33 percent in 2019 to 2024.

Meanwhile, the rate has dropped among Democratic men and independent men in that period.

The rate has fallen seven percentage points among Democratic men, to 29 percent. It fell five percentage points among independent men, to 39 percent.

Republican men remain the most likely group across the country among gender and party identification to own guns, with 60 percent saying they own one, Gallup found.

Among independent women, the rate grew by two percentage points and among Democratic women, it fell by one percentage point.

Gallup noted that it has combined data beginning in 2007 and first reported on its findings in 2013. Trends remain the same as then, according to its analysis, which observed that “gun ownership rates continue to diverge sharply by gender, even as more women purchase guns.”

While more women are buying guns now than before, the gap between political parties has expanded. The survey noted that this is likely due to the partisan ties to guns as they become a more political issue at home and on the campaign trail.

In 2007 to 2012, personal gun ownership rates differed by 16 points between Republicans and Democrats. Today, that gap is 28 points.

About 50 percent of respondents who say they live in rural areas own a gun in the most recent survey, compared to 20 percent of urban residents.

Overall, Gallup noted, 31 percent of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun and 13 percent say there’s a gun in their household that belongs to someone else.

The survey results are combined data from 2019 to 2024 on random samples of roughly 1,000 adults. For results based on the combined sample of 6,425 adults, the margin of error is 1 percentage point.