Women and Guns.

Judith McDonnell, Bryant University

Document Type Article

Entry in: Guns in American Society : an encyclopedia of history, politics, culture and the law Vol. 2, pages 661-665. edited by Gregg Lee Carter. ABC-CLIO, c2002.
ISBN 1576072681 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Abstract

In a recent study, the National Opinion Research Center found that although 44 percent of men personally own a gun, only 12 percent of women own one; 33 percent of men and only 10 percent of women have ever bought a handgun...