With the general election just over a month from now, reports hold that millions of potential voters whose gun rights are at play aren't even registered.
Data from Vote4America indicates upward of 10 million American hunters and gun owners in the United States are not currently registered to vote.
This apparent political apathy among gun owners is especially worrying in key swing states, where it is expected that the outcome of the election could come down to just a few thousand votes in a handful of counties.
As detailed by "American Hunter":
States with the most sportsmen not yet registered to vote in the upcoming Presidential election include Pennsylvania, with 515,277 and roughly a half million each in Georgia, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The states with the fewest number of unregistered sportsmen and women are Arizona at 133,000, Nevada with 59,173, and Montana, 52,233.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade group for the U.S. firearms industry, is urging all gun owners, hunters, recreational target shooters, and supporters of the Second Amendment to register to vote by visiting GunVote.org and heading to the polls on Election Day.
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"For millions of Americans who cherish their Second Amendment rights, this truly is the most critical election in history. Vice President Kamala Harris has clearly laid out her anti-gun agenda," said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF's senior vice president and general counsel. "It is abundantly clear she will continue the Biden-Harris attack on the Second Amendment and will restrict the rights of law-abiding Americans even more than she has over the past three and a half years."
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For those looking to see where they stand, GunVote.org lists all U.S. states with links to their respective Secretary of State’s websites where more details about registering to vote, early voting protocols. It even tells voters of their polling place so that exercising the right to vote is as easy as possible.
Curious where your local candidates stand on gun rights vs gun control? The NSSF's 2024 Congressional Report Card, grading sitting U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators on their positions on gun legislation. Likewise, the NRA's Political Victory Fund has its state-by-state grades available online.
Voters head to the polls on Nov. 5, although early voting starts as much as 46 days before Election Day in some states. In many states, deadlines to register to vote are even closer.
