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After more than a decade of stable gun ownership, women's ownership rose starkly between 2018 and 2021, going from 10 percent of adult women owning guns in 2018 to 15 percent in 2021, then up again slightly to 16 percent by 2024. Other national surveys, such as Pew's American Trends Panel, report similar trends in women's gun ownership over this period (although prevalence estimates differ from GSS, likely due to differences in question wording and sampling). Over the same period, men's gun ownership remained relatively flat; the percentage of men who own guns as of 2024 (36 percent) is now quite a bit lower than the ownership rate from two decades prior (40 percent). The result is a continued narrowing of the gender gap in gun ownership, which has fallen from 29 percentage points in 2004 to 19 percentage points in 2024.