According to the study, about 80% of handgun owners who reported carrying were male, 75% were white and most were between 18 and 44 years old.
In 2019, about 16 million adult handgun owners had carried a loaded handgun in the past month, which was up from 9 million in 2015. Six million carried every day, twice as many as carried daily in 2015.
The data in the study come from the 2019 National Firearms Survey, an online survey of U.S. adults living in households with firearms, including nearly 2,400 handgun owners, according to the university.
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