Household Gun Ownership Rates in the U.S.

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How Many Households in the U.S. Have a Gun in 2024?

Spoiler for the states that interest me the most:

  • Idaho: # 6 with 53%
  • Washington: # 39 with 34%
  • Kentucky (my youngest daughter lives here): # 12 with 49%
  • Montana: # 1 with 64%
  • Hawaii: # 50 with 8%

Of course, these numbers were via surveys. Respondents sometimes have an incentive to not tell the truth or not participate if they do own a gun. This will be represented as a negative bias in household ownership numbers.

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8 thoughts on “Household Gun Ownership Rates in the U.S.”

  2. Rather disappointed in my home state of Texas. Rated no. 31 with 37% households. WTH Texas ? In comedy clubs, Texans are often called out as ‘gun crazy’. We can do better !

    Not spreading any rumors, but maybe its all of those Californians coming into state ?

  3. Shy respondents is likely to be part of the answer why the numbers are so low for far-left states like HI and MA. But that doesn’t explain the strangely low number for FL.

  4. To isolate that upward and downward bias, it’s an interesting thought experiment to consider all the households you’re familiar with, and rank them in familiarity until you definitively reach the point that you know they are gun owners or not.

    At about a dozen, 80%+ are owners, and about a third of those owners I’d think of as Fudds.

  5. People naturally don’t talk to anyone about their guns in a society like this one. Especially “pollsters”. Anyone asking about your guns is automatically under suspicion.
    Hell, most of the guns bought in the last 30 years are because people are paranoid about gun confiscation and government abuses. Not being able to fight back against communism’s criminals. And only the paranoid survive.
    Me talking to pollster. Do you have any guns in your house?
    Absolutely not, what good are they in your house?…….It’s on my hip, stupid.

    • I’d like to say you are wrong. But democrats have made me buy a few guns. I’m secretly wondering if they are actually profiting from all of this

  6. I have few friends who don’t have a gun in the household. A couple of them have more guns than some countries. That could just be the sorts I hang around with. In my sort of leftist family the gun in household rate is 100%. Both kids are members of the LotsOfGuns club. Some of those guns were self-builds, inherited or black powder and not included in any data bases. My ex-wife who is anti-gun says most of her leftist friends have guns. I think the rate of gun ownership is underestimated by even more than the writer speculates.

  7. Gun ownership rates as reported HAVE to be incorrect because it’s a stone cold certainty that a lot of people polled who do have guns won’t admit it.

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