If you Google “Gun Purchases and Women, Minorites”, you will come up with several stories in August that report a good portion of those 5 million new gun owners are first time gun owning women and minorities. The National Shooting Sports Foundation reported last week:
NSSF surveys revealed that 58 percent of firearm purchases were among African American men and women, the largest increase of any demographic group. Women comprised 40 percent of first-time gun purchasers. Retailers noted that they are seeing a 95 percent increase in firearm sales and a 139 percent increase in ammunition sales over the same period in 2019.
These new gun owners make the gun community more diverse but the NSSF also said this is nothing new:
Against the backdrop of historically high firearm sales, one major theme is shattering misconceptions that America’s gun owners are “old white men.” A surge in gun buyers across the country in 2020, more than 2.5 million since March alone, has boosted the diversity of the firearm-owning population.
While surprising to some, it’s not to those in the firearm industry. Today’s gun buyer looks more like the rest of America. They represent all walks of life and those buying firearms today increasingly are women, minorities and more urban than in previous generations.
Yesterday, Cam Edwards, editor of Bearingarms.com and the host of Cam and Company, spoke with Tony Simon who has hosted a Diversity Shoot at New Jersey gun range Gun for Hire for several years. He had to move it this year due to New Jersey’s onerous Wuhan Virus restrictions but it will be held this month.
Tony told Cam he didn’t expect these new gun owners to become gun rights activists right away. I tend to agree but even folks like Gun Talk Radio’s Tom Gresham has said he doesn’t think these new gun owners are going to want to ban the guns they just bought. I’ve heard others in the firearms community say they think there is a chance some of these new gun owners will vote their rights.
If you are a woman and a new gun owner reading this, let me recommend A Girl and a Gun as a resource. If you are African American and a new gun owner, let me recommend the National African American Gun Association and for everyone, I recommend the NRA.
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