New Survey on the Rate that People Carry Concealed Handguns: Comparing Constitutional Carry States, Right-to-Carry States, and the Seven May-Issue States before Bruen

The CPRC employed McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 normal election voters on December seventeenth, 2024, relating to whether or not they carry hid handguns. Not surprisingly, individuals in constitutional-carry states carry hid handguns extra steadily than individuals in right-to-carry states. Whereas there isn’t any distinction within the price that folks carry all or more often than not in right-to-carry versus the seven states that had been may-issue earlier than Bruen, there’s a massive distinction within the complete variety of normal election voters who carry no less than every so often.

.Whereas this survey doesn’t ask individuals if they’re legally carrying, on condition that that is restricted to individuals who voted within the normal election, presumably they’re no less than considerably extra law-abiding than the overall inhabitants. We’ll do a later survey that breaks down whether or not persons are legally carrying.

.Total, 24% of normal election voters say they carry hid handguns, with 13% who carry all or more often than not.

Hispanics and blacks are more likely to hold hid handguns than whites. That’s true for each women and men. That is significantly necessary and comprehensible on condition that blacks are the probably victims of violent crime.

An extra breakdown of the speed that folks carry is proven right here, with 7% carrying on a regular basis and 6% more often than not.

Folks within the South are the probably to hold, and adopted carefully by the west after which the midwest. Republicans and conservatives are the probably to hold, although even vital numbers of liberals carry. City and rural normal election voters carry on the highest charges.