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Questions - Guns - April 7-9, 2025

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National Survey of 1,185 American Adults
Conducted April 7-9, 2025

By Rasmussen Reports

 

1* Have you or someone in your immediate family bought a gun in the past year?

 

 

2* What is the main reason most people purchase a gun – self-defense, to commit a criminal act, for job purposes, some other reason?

 

 

3* Is it too easy or too hard to buy a gun in the United States today? Or is the level of difficulty about right?

 

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence