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Such violence would likely involve firearms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Objective<\/jats:title>To evaluate whether firearm owners\u2019 and nonowners\u2019 support for political violence differs and whether support among owners varies by type of firearms owned, recency of purchase, and frequency of carrying a loaded firearm in public.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>This cross-sectional nationally representative survey study was conducted from May 13 to June 2, 2022, among US adult members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel, including an oversample of firearm owners.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Exposure<\/jats:title>Firearm ownership vs nonownership.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>Main outcomes concern (1) support for political violence, in general and to advance specific political objectives; (2) personal willingness to engage in political violence, by severity of violence and target population; and (3) perceived likelihood of firearm use in political violence. Outcomes are expressed as weighted proportions and adjusted prevalence differences, with P<\/jats:italic> values adjusted for the false-discovery rate and reported as q<\/jats:italic> values.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>The analytic sample comprised 12\u202f851 respondents: 5820 (45.3%) firearm owners, 6132 (47.7%) nonowners without firearms at home, and 899 (7.0%) nonowners with firearms at home. After weighting, 51.0% (95% CI, 49.9%-52.1%) were female, 8.5% (95% CI, 7.5%-9.5%) Hispanic, 9.1% (95% CI, 8.1%-10.2%) non-Hispanic Black, and 62.6% (95% CI, 61.5%-63.8%) non-Hispanic White; the mean (SD) age was 48.5 (18.0) years. Owners were more likely than nonowners without firearms at home to consider violence usually or always justified to advance at least 1 of 17 specific political objectives (owners: 38.8%; 95% CI, 37.3%-40.4%; nonowners: 29.8%; 95% CI, 28.5%-31.2%; adjusted difference, 6.5 percentage points; 95% CI, 4.5-9.3 percentage points; q<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001) but were not more willing to engage in political violence. Recent purchasers, owners who always or nearly always carry loaded firearms in public, and to a lesser extent, owners of assault-type rifles were more supportive of and willing to engage in political violence than other subgroups of firearm owners.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In this study of support for political violence in the United States, differences between firearm owners and nonowners without firearms at home were small to moderate when present. 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