Table 1

Characteristics of study participants by firearm storage practices

	All	Firearm storage practices
		Not loaded	Loaded but locked	Loaded and unlocked	χ² test p value
Age
18–49	44.37	44.78	46.66	40.32	0.012
50–64	27.59	27.22	31.49	25.65
65+	28.05	28.01	21.84	34.04
Sex
Male	58.35	54.08	65.79	71.02
Female	41.65	45.92	34.21	28.98
Race and ethnicity
White	61.95	62.02	62.29	61.29	0.066
Black	5.57	4.10	9.90	8.26
Hispanic	17.73	19.19	12.91	15.57
Asian	5.97	6.01	6.37	5.43
Other	8.78	8.69	8.53	9.44
Residence
Urban	94.11	93.74	95.81	94.19	0.092
Rural	5.89	6.26	4.19	5.81
Marital status
Married	59.59	60.49	59.79	55.29	0.035
Widowed/divorced/separated	16.20	14.74	17.05	22.11
Never married	19.15	19.72	17.07	18.48
Unmarried couple	5.06	5.05	6.09	4.12
Education
High school or less	31.76	31.28	28.16	37.38	<0.001
Some college	35.33	33.48	39.77	39.68
College graduate	32.91	35.24	32.07	22.95
Employment
Employed	58.02	57.89	66.22	50.87	0.004
Retired	26.45	25.90	20.93	34.18
Other	15.53	16.21	12.85	14.95
Children in household
No	66.60	65.68	61.12	76.14	0.001
Yes	33.40	34.32	38.88	23.86
Veteran
No	83.90	86.21	79.30	77.59	<0.001
Yes	16.10	13.79	20.70	22.41
Obs.	11 722	8371	1544	1807

Estimates were obtained using complex survey weights. Shares add to 100 across rows for respective characteristics. Life satisfaction data were missing for 80 observations, emotional support data were missing for 133 observations, social isolation data were missing for 75 observations. Data for marital status, education and employment status were missing for 44, 15 and 48 observations, respectively.