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First-Time Gun Buyers Grow To Nearly 5 Million In 2020
https://www.nssf.org/first-time-gun-buyers-grow-to-nearly-5-million-in-2020/NEWTOWN, Conn. – NSSF®, the trade association for the firearm industry, updated retail survey-based estimates and concluded that nearly 5 million Americans purchased a firearm for the very first time in 2020. NSSF surveyed firearm retailers which reported that 40 percent of sales were conducted to purchasers who have never previously owned a firearm.
NSSF tracks the background checks associated with the sale of a firearm based on the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS). NSSF-adjusted NICS checks for January through July 2020 is a record 12.1 million, which is up 71.7 percent from the 7.1 million NSSF-adjusted NICS January through July 2019. This equates to nearly 5 million first-time gun owners in the first seven months of 2020.
5 million newbies sounds a little high to me. Regardless, half that number would still be a big deal.
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Or are a lot of these people that are buying a gun now going to vote for its confiscation in a few months
My gut feeling is affiliation of first-timmers skews slightly left. Big chunk centrist or apolitical.