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Support for prohibiting state and local governments from publishing the names and addresses of all gun owners, asked in the CES in 2020 and 2022 with the same wording.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 42% answered “Oppose” in CES: Ban publishing names and addresses of gun owners, 2022.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Ban publishing names and addresses of gun owners | Ban publishing names and addresses of gun owners On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Prohibit state and local governments from publishing the names and addresses of all gun owners] Caveat: 2020 wording refers to permit holders (text truncated); 2022 refers to all gun owners | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Ban publishing names and addresses of gun owners | Ban publishing names and addresses of gun owners On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Prohibit state and local governments from publishing the names and addresses of all gun owners] Caveat: 2022 wording covers all gun owners, not just permit holders | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |