David De Lossy/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- Do you keep a gun in your home?  If you do, you're among a declining percentage of Americans who do.  A new report released by the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Center shows household gun ownership in the U.S. has dropped to its lowest level since it peaked in 1977.

In 1977, 54 percent of American households reported having guns. That percentage dropped to 32.3 percent in 2010.

The report cited several factors for the decline of gun ownership, including an increase in single-parent homes headed by women, the aging of the current gun-owning population, the decreasing popularity of hunting, and a lack of interest in guns by youth.

Additional findings from the VPC report:

    * Personal gun ownership peaked in 1985 when 30.7 percent of Americans reported personally owning a gun.  By 2010, that number had dropped to 20.8 percent.
    * Male gun ownership peaked in 1990, when 52.4 percent of men reported personally owning a gun.  That percentage dropped to 33.2 percent in 2010.
    * Female gun ownership peaked in 1982 at 14.3 percent. In 2010, the rate of female gun ownership was 9.9 percent.

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