Firearms in the U.S. Statistics and Facts

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News ID: 55172
Publish Date: 18:44 - 23 December 2021
Thursday, 23 December 2021 (YJC)_ As the number of gun owners keeps increasing in the US, here is everything you need to know about firearms in America.

In comparison to 2019, gun purchases accelerated in the US in 2020-21. A recent study on new gun ownership in US shows just in the period of time between January 2020 and April 2021 more than 5 million adults became first-time owners while this number was 2.4 million in 2019.

Between 2019 and 2020, the total number of gun purchases increased from 13.8m to 16.6m. This study also reveals that half of new gun owners were women and nearly half of them were people of color.

Here is everything you need to know about firearms in America.

Firearms in the U.S. Statistics and Facts

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