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Americans — and Democrats — Acquiring Firearms at Record Pace
The Washington Examiner reported on December 7 that in each of the previous 12 months, Americans purchased more than a million firearms. On Black Friday last year there were nearly a quarter of a million firearms sold, and the 1.6 million sold in November 2023 was the third-highest November sales in history. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) estimated then that by the end of 2023 citizens would have added another 14-plus million firearms to their arsenals.
Startlingly, in a December 11 article, Newsweek reported that an NBC News survey of gun ownership in the country revealed that 41 percent of Democrats now say they live in a household where there is at least one firearm, up eight percent in just the last four years. Those Democrats contributed to yet another record: More than half of all American households now have at least one firearm.
NSSF spokesman Mark Oliva attributes the gun purchases largely to increased crime and the fear of increased firearms regulations. “There are many communities with sustained levels of crime that have not abated. Those concerns, along with the punishing anti-gun measures by the Biden administration and threats of more gun control promised by the Biden-Harris reelection campaign, cannot be discounted as contributing factors,”Oliva said.
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