@article{ref1,
title="Under God and under threat: Christian nationalism and conspiratorial thinking as links between political orientation and gun ownership",
journal="Justice quarterly",
year="2023",
author="Seto, Christopher H. and Upenieks, Laura",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Conservative political orientation is a strong predictor of gun ownership in the United States. We explore the extent to which this relationship is mediated by two related belief systems: Christian nationalism and Right-Wing conspiratorial thinking. Drawing on nationally representative data from the sixth wave of the Baylor Religion Survey (N = 1,248), we use logistic regression and the Karlson-Holm-Breen method to analyze gun ownership, disaggregated by type of gun and reason for ownership. Christian nationalism and conspiratorial thinking underlie political effects on automatic and semi-automatic guns, handguns, and guns owned for protection, especially among non-Hispanic white respondents. Christian nationalism and conspiratorial thinking are less salient to driving political differences in long gun or recreational gun ownership. <br><br>FINDINGS elucidate the belief-based mechanisms underlying the societally important link between conservative politics and gun ownership, demonstrating how beliefs pattern who owns guns (and why) in the United States.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0741-8825",
doi="10.1080/07418825.2023.2197482",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2023.2197482"
}