According to a Pew Research Center report, 35% of Americans in a recent survey said they have a gun, rifle or pistol in their home.

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Forty-seven percent of American adults currently report that they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property, reported a Gallup survey last year.

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Such a report would surely reach the conclusion that a gun in the home greatly elevates risks of suicide, lethal accident and fatal domestic violence.

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The report shows that 95 percent of the background checks undertaken before a gun shop purchase is completed take as little as two hours.

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Another report by the private Pew Research Center found a similar decline by looking at the rate of gun homicides, which compares the number of killings to the size of the country's growing population.

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