New gun ownership is increasing. And it's just not "Bubba". Demographics are changing.
There's some other stats in the article but they weren't specific to new gun owners.
US gun sales rise amid spate of mass shootings | CNN
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“Sometime between 2016 and 2019, the new gun owners were more likely to be female and Black than prior to that
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The Northeastern and Harvard study found that nearly 3% of US adults, or 7.5 million people, bought guns for the first time from January 2019 to April 2021. About half of the new gun owners were female, 20% were Black, and 20% were Hispanic. Overall, gun owners were 63% male and 73% White.
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“The face of gun ownership is changing somewhat and the people who are becoming new gun owners today are less likely to be male and more likely to be non-White, more likely to be somewhat younger than existing and long-standing gun owners,” Miller said.
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“A rather large slice of our current clientele is female. We sponsor a shooting group for women… Right now there is no clear (line) – Republican or Democrat or Independent – buying guns.”
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