ABCNEWS.com Poll Finds Most Support Individuals' Right to Own Guns Americans overwhelmingly agree with the Justice Department's new position that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of citizens to own guns. But most also favor some restrictions on that right After hearing the Second Amendment verbatim, 73 percent in an ABCNEWS.com poll said it guarantees the right to individual gun ownership. Twenty percent said, instead, that it only guarantees the right of states to maintain militias — the government's longstanding position until the Justice Department reversed it in a U.S. Supreme Court brief last week. Full story and charts here
