Three million Americans carry a handgun daily: study

As many as three million people in the United States carry a loaded handgun daily, while nine million do so at least once a month, according to a US study Thursday.Most of these gun-toting Americans are young men, live in the south and say personal protection is a top reason for walking around with a deadly weapon, said the report in the American Journal of Public Health."It was important to study handgun carrying because about 90 percent of all firearm homicides and nonfatal firearm crimes for