The increase of women shooters has been going on for years. Good thing.
Women have bought almost half of all guns purchased since the beginning of 2019, reported The Wall Street Journal on Sept. 16.
Preliminary results of the 2021 National Firearms Survey, obtained exclusively by The Journal, found that about 3.5 million women became new gun owners between January 2019 and April 2021. Approximately 4 million men purchased first-time guns during that period.
“Researchers and gun store owners attributed the jump to fears driven by the Covid-19 pandemic and protests, sometimes accompanied by violence, that followed the police killing of George Floyd,” stated The Journal.