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Gun Control Policy Attitudes & Priorities Survey
Maps where respondents stand on gun rights and gun regulation — general attitudes, support for specific policy proposals, and personal experience with firearms — then uses an AI follow-up interview to surface the reasoning and lived experience behind each person's stated position, not just a number on a scale. Built for policy researchers, journalists, and advocacy teams tracking public opinion.
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13 questions · ~7 min
Q02
Multiple ChoiceRequired
Which best describes your relationship to firearms today?
- I currently own one or more firearms
- I have owned a firearm in the past but don't now
- I have never owned a firearm but have used one (e.g., shooting range, hunting, service)
- I have never owned or used a firearm
Q03
Multiple Choice
In the past year, have you or someone close to you been directly affected by gun violence (e.g., threatened, injured, or lost someone)?
- Yes, personally
- Yes, someone close to me
- No
- Prefer not to say
Q04
MatrixRequired
How much do you agree or disagree with each statement?
5 rows × 5 columns
- The right to own a firearm is a fundamental individual right
- Stricter gun laws would meaningfully reduce mass shootings
- Owning a gun makes my household safer
- Current background check requirements are strict enough
- Law-abiding gun owners already face too many restrictions
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q05
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required
Of the following policy proposals, which would you consider the MOST effective and LEAST effective at reducing gun violence in the U.S.?
- Universal background checks for all firearm sales, including private sales
- Red flag laws allowing temporary removal of firearms from at-risk individuals
- Raising the minimum legal age to purchase a firearm
- Banning high-capacity magazines
- Mandatory waiting periods before a purchase is completed
- Stricter safe-storage requirements to prevent unauthorized access
- Increased funding for mental health services
Pick best & worst per setBest:Most effectiveWorst:Least effective
Q06
Opinion ScaleRequired
Overall, where do you fall between prioritizing gun rights and prioritizing gun regulation?
Scale: 0 – 10
Min:Strongly prioritize protecting gun rightsMax:Strongly prioritize stricter gun regulation
Q07
Ranking
Rank the factors below by how much they've shaped your views on guns, from most influential to least.
- Family upbringing or cultural background
- Personal experience with gun violence or self-defense
- News and media coverage
- Religious or moral beliefs
- Political party affiliation
- Professional experience (e.g., law enforcement, military, medicine)
Drag to rank
Q08
AI Interview
Probe the reasoning behind the respondent's placement on the gun-rights-vs-regulation scale, anchoring on the specific policy statements or proposals they rated most strongly (in either direction) in the earlier questions. Ask what personal experiences, events, or people most shaped that view, and whether there's any policy on 'the other side' they could support. If they reported being personally affected by gun violence, gently explore how that experience influences their current position. If their answers seem inconsistent (e.g., strongly favoring rights but rating most regulations as effective), ask them to reconcile that directly.
Q09
Multiple Choice
Which best describes your political affiliation?
- Democrat
- Republican
- Independent
- Other
- Prefer not to say
Q10
Multiple Choice
What is your age range?
- Under 18
- 18-24
- 25-34
- 35-44
- 45-54
- 55-64
- 65 or older
- Prefer not to say
Q11
Multiple Choice
What is your gender?
- Woman
- Man
- Non-binary
- Prefer to self-describe
- Prefer not to say
Q12
Multiple Choice
Which region best describes where you live? (Template note: replace with country-specific regions before launching.)
- Northeast
- Midwest
- South
- West
- Outside the U.S.
- Prefer not to say
Q13
Message
Thank you for sharing your views. Your answers, along with everyone else's, will be aggregated into a report on public attitudes toward gun policy — individual responses are not shared or attributed to you.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
Why this template
What this template is built to do — we found no directly comparable template from other survey tools to review.
What sets it apart
- Goes beyond a single rights-vs-regulation scale by pairing an opinion scale, a matrix of agreement statements, and a max-diff ranking of policy proposals to map nuanced positions
- Includes an AI follow-up interview that specifically probes the reasoning behind each respondent's placement on the gun-rights-vs-regulation spectrum, surfacing lived experience rather than just a number
- Captures personal context often missing from static gun-policy polls, including direct firearm relationship, recent personal impact from gun violence, and a ranked exercise on what has shaped each person's views
- Collects standard demographic and political-affiliation breakouts alongside the qualitative interview data, with an auto-generated report to support policy researchers, journalists, and advocacy teams
Ready to launch?
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