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The Supreme Court is hearing a case that will decide on whether or not the second amendment should include the right to carry a concealed handgun. While the issue's fate will rest in the hands of the high court, we were curious what voters thought on this potentially divisive issue.

Overall, a strong majority (63%) of voters believed the second amendment should also include the right to carry a concealed gun. A plurality (36%) strongly agreed, while 29% disagreed (somewhat and strongly disagreed combined), and 8% were not sure.

Most sub-groups agreed that the second amendment to the constitution should also encompass the right to carry a concealed gun. A majority of voters supported concealed carry as a part of the second amendment, in all regions, but support was strongest in the West (66% agreed/27% disagreed) and South regions (64% agreed/29% disagreed). Concealed carry was also popular with the youngest voters-aged 18-29 (66% agreed/28% disagreed) and oldest-aged 65+ (53% agreed/39% disagreed), men (65% agreed/27% disagreed), women (61% agreed/30% disagreed), Democrats (58% agreed/35% disagreed), Republicans (76% agreed/17% disagreed), and all races-Blacks (54% agreed/32% disagreed), Whites (66% agreed/26% disagreed), and Hispanics (61% agreed/31% disagreed).

Finally, when it came to where voters lived, majorities of large city (68% agreed/27% disagreed), medium city (64% agreed/31% disagreed), suburban (56% agreed/33% disagreed) and rural voters (76% agreed/17% disagreed) agreed that the second amendment should also include concealed carry rights. The outlier were small city voters (48% agreed/36% disagreed), who were one of a handful of groups in which a majority did not agree about the right to carry a concealed weapon.



Zogby Analytics Poll Methodology
US Likely Voters
5/26/21 - 5/27/21

Zogby Analytics conducted an online survey of 868 likely voters in the US.



Based on a confidence interval of 95%, the margin of error for 868 is +/- 3.3 percentage points. This means that all other things being equal, the identical survey repeated will have results within the margin of error 95 times out of 100.




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