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Homes with guns fewer, survey says

Rate at 50% in ’70s, 34% today

Posted: March 10, 2013 at 6:04 a.m.

The share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades, a national survey shows, with some of the most surprising drops in the South and the Western mountain states, where guns are deeply embedded in the culture.

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