Gun purchases accelerated in the US from 2020 to 2021, study reveals – By Edward Helmore (The Guardian) / December 20, 2021
More than 5 million adults became first-time gun owners between January 2020 and April 2021 compared to 2.4 million in 2019
Gun purchases accelerated in the US during 2020-2021 compared to 2019, with more than 5 million adults becoming first-time gun owners between January 2020 and April 2021 compared to 2.4 million adults in 2019, a study on new gun ownership reveals.
The survey, conducted by Professor Matt Miller at Northeastern University and published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that between January 2019 and April this year, around 7.5m people, or 2.9% of all US adults who had not previously owned guns, purchased them.
Most, or about 5.4 million people, brought the weapons into homes that had not previously had them.
“The proportion of gun sales to new gun owners compared to existing gun owners is around the same at 20%,” Miller told the Guardian. “What changed is the volume of gun purchases.”
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