united-states jury voir-dire
Requirement to disclose information during jury selection
<p>During jury selection and you are a potential jury member, are you required to answer the question if asked whether you own a firearm or are a member of the NRA?</p>

<p>If you are directly asked a question, you might sit there silently or explicitly refuse to answer, and the judge may order you to answer (refusing the order would be contempt). A non-responsive answer when being individually examined by an attorney is to be corrected by re-asking the question, to get a complete answer.
However, if the pool is asked a generic question ("Is anybody here a member of the NRA ~ does anyone here work for Google, raise your hand") silence (or not raising your hand) would be perjury. See <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/188/1631.html" rel="noreferrer">People v. Meza</a> 188 Cal.App.3d 1631, <a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1845701.html" rel="noreferrer">People v. Blackwell</a> for example. </p>
