| 100% | GUNCONTROL | 10 | Contentious subject covered in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution |
| 48% | CENTENNIAL | 10 | The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution will enjoy this celebration this year |
| 40% | BEARARMS | 8 | “. . . the right of the people to keep and ___, shall not be infringed” (oft-debated language in the Second Amendment) |
| 38% | MILITIA | 7 | First noun in the Second Amendment |
| 37% | FIRST | 5 | Amendment of the US Constitution that protects free speech |
| 37% | MILITIA | 7 | "Well-regulated" thing in the Second Amendment |
| 37% | ARMS | 4 | They're discussed in the Second Amendment |
| 37% | ARMS | 4 | Plural word found in the Second Amendment |
| 37% | ARMS | 4 | Word meaning "weapons" in the Second Amendment |
| 36% | GRANT | 5 | Ulysses S. ___, 18th President of the U.S.A. and the second to sport a beard in office |
| 36% | GOA | 3 | Org, founded in 1975 that, according to its website, has "never wavered from its mission to defend the Second Amendment" (abbr.) |
| 36% | ESL | 3 | Subject for some immigrants to the US: Abbr. |
| 36% | TENTH | 5 | States' rights amendment to the Constitution |
| 36% | NEWPORT | 7 | City in Rhode Island home to the US Naval War College |
| 35% | TENTH | 5 | State's rights amendment to the Constitution |
| 35% | DELAWARE | 8 | First state to ratify the US Constitution |
| 35% | ENEMY | 5 | Spain, to the U.S. in 1898 |
| 35% | LLEYTONHEWITT | 13 | Second-youngest man in tennis's Open Era to win the US Open, at 20 years, 6 months, 13 days (2001): 2 wds. |
| 35% | FREESPEECH | 10 | It's protected in the same amendment as the right to assemble |
| 35% | PTBOAT | 6 | U.S. naval craft used in the Second World War |
| 35% | NHL | 3 | It first expanded to the US in 1924 |
| 34% | RATIFIER | 8 | State, for an amendment to the Constitution, e.g. |
| 34% | ALASKA | 6 | Land sold by Russia to the US in 1867 |
| 34% | STCROIX | 7 | Denmark sold it to the U.S. in 1917 |
| 34% | ELCHAPO | 7 | Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017 |
| 34% | LAX | 3 | Second-busiest airport in the U.S. |
| 34% | TAHOE | 5 | Second-deepest lake in the U.S. |
| 34% | WMDS | 4 | Subjects of an infamous 2003 Colin Powell speech to the U.N. |
| 34% | PARALLEL | 8 | In 1818, Canada and the US agreed to the 49th __ |
| 34% | GHANA | 5 | Loser to the U.S. in the 2014 World Cup |