Poll: Republican women now own guns at a higher rate than Democratic men

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Well, this is one of my favorite Gallup polls ever.

A whopping 33% of Republican women own guns, compared to just 29% of Democratic men.

And I love this headline from Gallup:

Here’s what the poll found.

According to six-year groupings of Gallup’s annual measurement of personal gun ownership since 2007, the percentage of Republican women who own a gun has increased from 19% in 2007-2012 to 33% in 2019-2024. Meanwhile, the rate has fallen seven percentage points among Democratic men, to 29%, and is down five points among independent men, to 39%. Republican men remain the most likely gun owners among gender and party identification subgroups, at 60%.

This seems to suggest that while Republican women have become tougher over the past decade, Democratic men have become (even bigger) weaklings.

Not at all surprising … if you’ve been paying attention.

Some other interesting finds in this poll:

While the gender gap has shrunk, the political party gap has expanded. In 2007-2012, personal gun ownership rates differed by 16 points among Republicans (38%) and Democrats (22%). Now the gap is 28 points (47% and 19%, respectively).

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gender is the strongest predictor of gun ownership. However, the influence of gender is weaker today than it was in the past.

The model estimates that the statistical odds of a man owning a gun are 3.1 times greater than the odds of a woman owning a gun, after taking into account the effect of other variables. That compares with a much larger 4.5 “odds ratio” for men versus women when applying the same model to the 2007-2012 data.

Republicans are currently 1.5 times more likely than non-Republicans to own a gun, after controlling for the effects of other factors such as gender, region or place of residence. Additionally, Democrats are 1.3 times less likely than non-Democrats to own a gun.

Rural residents are the only major subgroup with a majority of peeps saying they own a gun (51%). Big city dwellers own guns at an alarmingly low rate of 20%.