Report Highlights: The percentage of Americans owning guns varies depending on the state, age, and other factors. Over 60% of those living in Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska own guns. Nationwide, gun ownership has remained stable: between 30% and 32% since 2000. Americans aged 50 to 64 report the highest ownership …

Slipped into the state budget, new “first-in-the-nation” mandates turn private printers into state-run surveillance devices, criminalizing free speech and the right to bear arms simultaneously. The political class in New York has just mandated a digital panopticon inside your living room, slipping draconian provisions into the Fiscal Year 2027 State …

Report Highlights: The most commonly used weapons in homicides in the U.S. are firearms.   On average, firearms accounted for 78% of all mechanisms used in homicides between 2018 and 2025. Knives accounted for 8% of all homicide mechanisms in the U.S. between 2018 and 2024. Wyoming and Maine were …

Report Highlights: Federal and state laws govern the manufacture, possession, and transfer of firearm suppressors (colloquially referred to as “silencers”). State laws vary.   Suppressors are illegal in eight states: California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. Suppressors are legal in 21 states if they …

Second Amendment proponents are facing a stark reality. One they didn’t think they were going to face. At the beginning of 2025, everything seemed like it was going to be ok, as President Trump signed an executive order directing Pam Bondi to undo all Biden-era gun control. While on the …

Report Highlights: The gap between male and female gun owners in the United States has narrowed. Female gun ownership increased by 5-15% since 1980, while male gun ownership decreased by 11%. Between 39 and 43% of U.S. men (65-71 million) reported owning firearms in 2025. Between 17 and 25% of …

Report Highlights: The United States has more civilian-owned guns than any other nation. Estimates suggest the country has hundreds of millions of firearms. The United States has between 400 million and 500 million privately owned firearms. 46% of American households, approximately 65.19 million, contain at least one firearm. In 2026, …

Report Highlights: California ranked 32nd for homicides in 2024. The state’s homicide rates have consistently declined since 2008. California’s homicide rate was 26% lower than the national average in 2024. There are approximately 3.3 million gun owners in California. Los Angeles contributed 20% of the state’s homicides in 2024, while …

Report Highlights: Chicago is a large city with a homicide rate higher than its peer cities. Of the 11 most populous U.S. cities (over 1 million people), Chicago consistently has the highest homicide rate. Chicago’s average homicide rate is 27.1 per 100,000 residents (excluding justifiable homicide and involuntary manslaughter). 64% …

Because of the growing fear of mass shootings and terrorist attacks all over the world, advice about how to survive mass shootings or sniper attacks are everywhere, and there are useful but there is a bit of confusion there. Sniper attacks in collapse and mass shootings today in peaceful times have a lot of …