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Originally Posted by 270person
You keep moving the goalposts and completely ignoring the fact that there was a massive spike in NEW firearms licences in the U.S. in 2020. To the tune of 7.5 million. Why is that? What are the underlieing reasons? I'll take things that cause Americans to freak and Canadians to barely bat an eye for $200 Alex.
I guess none of those 7.5M newly licensed owners bought firearms and ammunition which played a major role in the shortages. That's not speculation by the way and is easy to source.
And with that.....
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In 2022, there are only 14 states out of 50 that even require licenses to purchase firearms, so using licenses as an indication of firearms sales, isn't necessarily accurate.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/st...-laws-by-state
As for the actual numbers of new firearms purchasers in the USA, in 2020, this source shows a much smaller number , less than half of 7.5 million.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-rise-pandemic
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A third data study, compiled by Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and seen by the New York Times, shows that 6.5% of US adults, or 17 million people, have purchased guns in the past year, up from 5.3% in 2019.
Of those, almost one-fifth who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners
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So almost one-fifth of 17 million, amounts to over 3 million new firearms owners. So 7.5 million new licenses in 14 states, only translated to just over 3 million new owners in all 50 states.
And here is something interesting, the data refutes what some people are implying, about the new sales being due a bunch of lunatics preparing for some kind of war.
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Of those, almost one-fifth who bought guns last year were first-time gun owners of whom half were women, a fifth were Black and a fifth were Hispanic, challenging the stereotype of white male gun owners building personal arsenals.
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