NEW YORK - Four in 10 adults live in households with guns, and those homes have an average of two firearms each, according to a national poll. Louis Harris and Associates said its survey being released today indicates a leveling off of gun ownership after a decline during the 1980s.
Some households have more than one type of gun.
Forty percent have at least one gun of any type. The Harris Poll interviewed 1,004 adults by phone July 15-21. Results have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.