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Title: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: Ben on January 28, 2022, 10:52:08 AM
Looks like around 5.4 million first-time gun purchases for 2021:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/5-4-million-americans-purchase-guns-for-first-time-in-2021-nssf-survey_4242238.html
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: ConstitutionCowboy on January 28, 2022, 11:26:33 AM
Looks like around 5.4 million first-time gun purchases for 2021:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/5-4-million-americans-purchase-guns-for-first-time-in-2021-nssf-survey_4242238.html

Lets hope the ammo producers can keep up!

Woody
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: Fly320s on January 28, 2022, 03:42:10 PM
Looks like around 5.4 million first-time gun purchases for 2021:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/5-4-million-americans-purchase-guns-for-first-time-in-2021-nssf-survey_4242238.html

If the ATF and FBI don't keep records of background checks, how do they know who is a first timer buyer?
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: dogmush on January 28, 2022, 03:53:55 PM
NSSF surveyed retailers for their opinion on how many of their customers were first time gun buyers, and multiplied that by the number of NICS's run.

.gov not involved in this estimate.
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: 230RN on January 29, 2022, 10:05:23 AM
So divide that 5.4 by 2 = 2.7 million to allow for <ahem> "optimism."

Still impressive, though.
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: WLJ on January 29, 2022, 10:11:06 AM
That number could be high or it could be low. Really no way to be sure.
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: 230RN on January 29, 2022, 11:44:16 AM
"All experience hath shewn that" when in doubt, assume the errors are in the direction to support the writer's position.

Hey, that's not just me talkin'.  I just used a PFA number. You can pick your own Plucked From the Air number.
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: MillCreek on January 29, 2022, 12:40:29 PM
^^I like to quote the study from MSU.  Everyone thinks this must be a university, like Minnesota State or something.  But I use it for 'make *expletive deleted*it up'.
Title: Re: New Gun Owners, 2021
Post by: 230RN on January 29, 2022, 03:50:12 PM
Yeah, and I gotta laugh at the "peer reviewed" stuff.

"Here, Steve, waddaya think of this?" George asks, and hands Steve a submission.

Steve glances at the Introduction, flips though a couple of pages, suddenly encounters the statistics, mutters "Oh, yuch," glances at the conclusion, hands it back to George, says "Looks OK to me. Maybe it should have some woke stuff."

There.  Peer reviewed.

:rofl:

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