A report on Democratic Party (United States), Republican Party (United States) and Gun politics in the United States

Calamity Jane, notable pioneer frontierswoman and scout, at age 43. Photo by H.R. Locke.

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829–1837) and the first Democratic president.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States (1861–1865) and the first Republican to hold the office

Gun politics date to Colonial America. (Lexington Minuteman, representing John Parker, by Henry Hudson Kitson stands at the town green of Lexington, Massachusetts.)

Martin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–1841) and the second Democratic president.

Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader associated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region

Representative John A. Bingham of Ohio, principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States (1869–1877)

Political cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper published in Puck magazine shortly after the assassination of James A. Garfield

The 1885 inauguration of Grover Cleveland, the only president with non-consecutive terms

James G. Blaine, 28th & 31st Secretary of State (1881; 1889–1892)

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Gun Control Act of 1968 into law.

Leaders of the Democratic Party during the first half of the 20th century on 14 June 1913: Secretary of State William J. Bryan, Josephus Daniels, President Woodrow Wilson, Breckinridge Long, William Phillips, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901)

March on Washington for Gun Control in January 2013

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, 32nd and 33rd presidents of the United States (1933–1945; 1945–1953), featured on a campaign poster for the 1944 presidential election

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States (1901–1909)

Lobby Day gun rights rally in Virginia in January 2020

John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 35th and 36th presidents of the United States (1961–1963, 1963–1969)

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States (1929–1933)

Vigil held in Minneapolis for victims of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States (1977–1981), delivering the State of the Union Address in 1979

Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–1989)

The "National March on the NRA" in August 2018

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), at The Pentagon in 1998

Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States (2017–2021)

Map of civilian guns per 100 people by country from the Small Arms Survey 2017.

Barack Obama speaking to College Democrats of America in 2007

Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States (1923–1929)

Household Firearm Ownership Rate by U.S. state in 2016

President Barack Obama meeting with the Blue Dog Coalition in the State Dining Room of the White House in 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th governor of California (2003–2011)

Multiple studies show that where people have easy access to firearms, gun-related deaths tend to be more frequent, including by suicide, homicide and unintentional injuries.

Eleanor Roosevelt at the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

John McCain, United States senator from Arizona (1987–2018)

Number of gun murders per capita, by state (2010)

President Barack Obama signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law at the White House on March 23, 2010

Donald Rumsfeld, 21st United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)

Photo from a security camera from the Washington Navy Yard shooting.

Secretary of State John Kerry addressing delegates at the United Nations before signing the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016

Colin Powell, 65th United States Secretary of State (2001–2005)

Total US deaths by year in spree shootings 1982–2018 (ongoing).

Shirley Chisholm was the first major-party African American candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns.

Newt Gingrich, 50th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)

March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2018

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Immigration Act of 1965 as Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and others look on

Annual population growth in the U.S. by county - 2010s

Demonstrators openly carrying rifles at the 2020 VCDL Lobby Day rally in Virginia.

Then-Senator Barack Obama shaking hands with an American soldier in Basra, Iraq in 2008

This map shows the vote in the 2020 presidential election by county.

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey. Several gun policy proposals continue to draw support from Americans. Nearly nine-in-ten (87%) favor preventing people with mental illnesses from purchasing guns, while 81% favor subjecting private gun sales and sales at gun shows to background checks. Smaller though still sizeable majorities of Americans support the creation of a federal database tracking all gun sales.

President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1978

Political Spectrum Libertarian Left Centrist Right Authoritarian

A New York Times study reported how outcomes of active shooter attacks varied with actions of the attacker, the police (42% of total incidents), and bystanders (including a "good guy with a gun" outcome in 5.1% of total incidents).

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with President Barack Obama at Ben Gurion Airport in 2013

U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey.

Self-identified Democrats (blue) versus self-identified Republicans (red) (January–June 2010 data)

Higher percentages of Democrats than Republicans are members of union households.

Elected at age 33, Jon Ossoff is currently the youngest member of the U.S. Senate.

Hillary Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg

Julián Castro served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Since the mid-1850s, it has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party.

- Republican Party (United States)

On social issues, it advocates campaign finance reform, LGBT rights, criminal justice and immigration reform, stricter gun laws, abortion rights, and drug reform.

- Democratic Party (United States)

Though gun control is not strictly a partisan issue, there is generally more support for gun control legislation in the Democratic Party than in the Republican Party.

- Gun politics in the United States

Republicans generally support gun ownership rights and oppose laws regulating guns.

- Republican Party (United States)

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Barack Obama

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American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, (L to R) mid-1970s in Honolulu

Barack Obama's school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. Obama was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and was wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).

Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia, 2009

Obama playing in a pickup game on the White House basketball court, 2009

The Obamas worship at African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., January 2013

State Senator Obama and others celebrate the naming of a street in Chicago after ShoreBank co-founder Milton Davis in 1998

Results of the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois; Obama won the counties in blue.

Official portrait of Obama as a member of the United States Senate

Obama and U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) visit a Russian facility for dismantling mobile missiles (August 2005)

Obama on stage with wife and daughters just before announcing presidential candidacy in Springfield, Illinois, February 10, 2007

2008 electoral vote results. Obama won 365–173.

2012 electoral vote results. Obama won 332–206.

Obama takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2009

Obama delivers a speech at joint session of Congress with Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on February 24, 2009.

Obama visits an Aurora shooting victim at University of Colorado Hospital, 2012.

The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors on the evening of the Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, June 26, 2015.

US employment statistics (unemployment rate and monthly changes in net employment) during Obama's tenure as U.S. president

Obama at a 2010 briefing on the BP oil spill at the Coast Guard Station Venice in Venice, Louisiana

Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at the White House, March 23, 2010.

Maximum Out-of-Pocket Premium as Percentage of Family Income and federal poverty level, under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, starting in 2014 (Source: CRS)

Percentage of Individuals in the United States without Health Insurance, 1963–2015 (Source: JAMA)

June 4, 2009 − after his speech A New Beginning at Cairo University, U.S. President Obama participates in a roundtable interview in 2009 with among others Jamal Khashoggi, Bambang Harymurti and Nahum Barnea.

Obama with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, January 2015.

Obama meets with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, October 2016.

Meeting with UK Prime Minister David Cameron during the 2010 G20 Toronto summit

Obama after a trilateral meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (right), White House Cabinet Room, May 2009

Obama meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in the Oval Office, May 2009

President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015.

Obama and members of the national security team receive an update on Operation Neptune's Spear in the White House Situation Room, May 1, 2011. See also: Situation Room

Obama talks with Benjamin Netanyahu, March 2013.

President Obama meeting with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Panama, April 2015

Obama meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2015.

G8 leaders watching the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

Obama with his then-new successor Donald Trump and his later successor Joe Biden, at the former's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Obama playing golf with the President of Argentina Mauricio Macri, October 2017

Obama and his wife Michelle at the inauguration of Joe Biden

Job growth during the presidency of Obama compared to other presidents, as measured as a cumulative percentage change from month after inauguration to end of his term

First official portrait of Barack Obama as President of the United States, 2009

Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, February 19, 2009.

Obama and Donald Trump, January 20, 2017

A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president of the United States.

Obama was elected over Republican nominee John McCain in the general election and was inaugurated alongside his running mate Joe Biden, on January 20, 2009.

He advocated for gun control in response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, indicating support for a ban on assault weapons, and issued wide-ranging executive actions concerning global warming and immigration.

Donald Trump

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American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964

Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower

Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009

Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000

Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.

2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227

Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017

Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts

Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017

Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church

Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.

Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019

Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.

Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020

Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018

Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019

Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020

Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.

Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020

Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019

Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate

Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona

2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump

Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.

He won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton but lost the popular vote, becoming the first U.S. president with no prior military or government service.

Trump said he is opposed to gun control in general, although his views have shifted over time.