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Support for making it easier for people to obtain a concealed-carry permit, asked in CES 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024 with for/against or support/oppose 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: 61% answered “Oppose” in CES: Making concealed-carry permits easier to obtain, 2024.
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: Easier concealed-carry gun permits | Easier concealed-carry gun permits On the issue of gun regulation, are you for or against each of the following proposals? [Make it easier for people to obtain a concealed-carry gun permit] Caveat: For/against wording instead of support/oppose | equivalent | For → Support; Against → Oppose |
| CES: Make concealed-carry permits easier to obtain | Make concealed-carry permits easier to obtain On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Make it easier for people to obtain concealed-carry permit] Caveat: Reference wording; support/oppose | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Easier concealed-carry permits | Easier concealed-carry permits On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose each of the following proposals? [Make it easier for people to obtain concealed-carry permit] Caveat: Same wording as 2020 | identical | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |
| CES: Making concealed-carry permits easier to obtain | Making concealed-carry permits easier to obtain On the issue of gun regulation, do you support or oppose a proposal that would do the following? [Make it easier for people to obtain concealed-carry permit] Caveat: Reworded as a 'proposal that would do the following' | equivalent | Support → Support; Oppose → Oppose |