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Understatement: First-Timers Flock to Guns

NSSF report shows nearly 5 million first-time firearm owners in first seven months of 2020. Wow!

Understatement: First-Timers Flock to Guns — (Shutterstock.com photo)

January 22, 2021 By Handguns Staff

Late in the summer of 2020, the National Shooting Sports Foundation analyzed retail information and concluded that nearly 5 million Americans purchased a firearm for the very first time in 2020, and gun shops reported 40 percent of sales were to purchasers who have never previously owned a firearm.

NSSF-adjusted NICS background checks for January through July 2020 were a record 12.1 million, which is up 71.7...

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