{"id":248845,"date":"2026-06-01T16:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=248845"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:33:30","slug":"concealed-carry-survey-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/concealed-carry-survey-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"CPRC: Concealed Carry Hits Nearly 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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If Hollywood made a movie about the average concealed carrier, they’d probably cast a retired rancher wearing camouflage, chewing beef jerky, and yelling at clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center<\/a>, reality looks a whole lot different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, some of the survey’s most surprising findings completely blow up many of the stereotypes surrounding who carries a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CPRC commissioned McLaughlin & Associates to survey<\/a> 1,000 likely general-election voters in May 2026. The results showed that 29.8% of likely voters carry a concealed handgun<\/a> at least occasionally, up from 24.3% in a similar survey conducted in December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s a pretty significant jump in less than two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The share carrying all or most of the time remained relatively stable at 13.2%, but the percentage carrying sometimes or rarely jumped from 11.2% to 16.6%. In other words, America isn’t necessarily creating more hardcore daily carriers: it’s creating a lot more people who carry when they think they might need to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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