With the United States buffeted in recent years by shootings at schools, churches and, this month, at a practice for a congressional baseball game, a small majority of Americans favors stricter gun laws — but the nation remains starkly divided on much else when it comes to guns, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday.

The report, America’s Complex Relationship With Guns, offers a detailed look at gun ownership and attitudes toward guns, based on an online survey of 3,930 adults, including 1,269 gun owners, conducted in March and April. Here are some of its findings:

30 percent of adults said they own a gun …

… and roughly two-thirds of gun owners said they had grown up in households with guns.

Three-quarters of gun owners said they had fired a gun before they were 18. Most of them own more than one gun, and 29 percent said that they owned at least five. The top reason cited for owning a gun was protection (67 percent), followed by hunting (38 percent) and sport shooting (30 percent). (The numbers add up to more than 100 percent because people cited multiple reasons for owning guns.)

About a quarter said that they carried a handgun or pistol with them outside the home most or all of the time, and nearly three-quarters said they could never see themselves not owning a gun.