More than half of U.S. adults have experienced a gun-related incident, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a California-based non-profit organization.

The survey, published on Tuesday, shows that 54 percent of U.S. adults have either personally experienced a gun-related incident, or had a family member who did. These include witnessing a shooting, being threatened by gun, or being injured or killed by a gun.

When asked about their own personal experience, one in five (21 percent) say they have been threatened with a gun, while nearly as many (17 percent) say they witnessed someone being shot.

When asked about their family members, about three in ten adults (31 percent) say they have a family member who has been threatened with a gun, while a similar share (28 percent) say a family member has witnessed someone being shot. One in five (20 percent) adults say a family member has been injured by a gun, and 19 percent say a family member has been killed by a gun, including death by suicide, according to the survey.

Disproportionate impact on people of color in the U.S.

The survey revealed that three in four adults in households with guns say at least one gun in their home is either unlocked, loaded, or kept with ammunition.

The survey found that gun-related injuries and deaths, as well as worries about gun violence, disproportionately affect people of color in the United States.

Three in ten Black adults (31 percent) have personally witnessed someone being shot, as have one-fifth of Hispanic adults (22 percent). One-third of Black adults (34 percent) have a family member who was killed by a gun, twice the share of White adults who say the same (17 percent).

In addition, one-third of Black adults (32 percent) and Hispanic adults (33 percent) say they worry either "every day" or "almost every day" about themselves or someone they love being a victim of gun violence. Meanwhile, only one in ten White adults say the same.

The survey also found that one in five Black adults (20 percent) and Hispanic adults (18 percent) feel like gun-related crimes, deaths and injuries are a "constant threat" to their local community, more than double the share among White adults (8 percent).

The survey was conducted from March 14 to 23 online and by telephone among a nationally representative sample of nearly 1,300 U.S. adults in English and in Spanish.

The survey was published one day after the bank shooting in Louisville, Kentucky, which left six people dead, including the shooter.

Mass shootings have become commonplace in the U.S., which has experienced 146 as of April 10 in 2023, the most at this point in the year since 2016, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive.

More than 11,500 people have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year – an average of about 115 deaths each day, it said.

(With input from agencies)