Story highlights 60% -- Americans who supported a handgun ban in 1959

25% -- Americans who supported a handgun ban in 2013

20,947,258 - FBI firearm background checks in 2013

Here's a look by the numbers on guns in the United States and Americans' attitudes toward them.

60 - Percent who supported a ban in 1960, the first year Gallup asked this question.

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27 - Percentage of Percentage of households in the Northeast with a firearm , the lowest of any region.

56 - Number of Number of votes the Assault Weapons Ban received in the U.S. in 1994.

11,068 - Homicides with a firearm in the U.S. in 2011.

47.4 - Percent of applications denied by the FBI for 2010 because of a felony conviction or indictment.