Professor Brad Bushman, Assistant Professor Graham Dixon and Professor Kelly Garrett recently conducted a study to investigate factors that encourage greater private support for and public action on gun safety policy. 

This survey study found that many U.S. adults failed to recognize that most gun owners support key gun safety policies. Correcting this misperception was associated with greater private and public support for gun safety policy. 

These findings suggest that increasing awareness of the high levels of support for gun safety policies among gun owners may lead individuals to be more supportive of the policies both in private and in public.

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