More than 5 million adults became first-time gun owners between January 2020 and April 2021 compared to 2.4 million in 2019
Most, or about 5.4 million people, brought the weapons into homes that had not previously had them.
According to the study, 55% of new gun owners were white, 20.9% were Black and 20% Hispanic. But that distribution, says the author, was in place before the onset of the pandemic. “New gun owners are more likely to be Black and they’re more likely to be female,” Miller says. Within that increase in ownership, Miller says, “there’s a disproportionate increase in exposure to guns among African-American households”.
While guns statistics are notoriously difficult to apply to real life events, the increase in gun sales doesn’t necessarily suggest a rise in violent crime, or necessarily a rise in accidents and suicides.
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