bellisarius
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Spurious 2nd amendment arguments aside, it's no secret that Americans have been on a gun buying spree since early 2020. Record numbers almost every month. The primary driver(s) of this were the Antifa/BLM riots, de-fund the police initiatives, and the Wuhan Flu.
What is less discussed is that over 40% of those buyers are new gun owners. That is a substantial jump from previous statistics. What's even more interesting is that women make up almost 50% of those new owners. Even more interesting is that 23% of those new women owners are black.
The majority of those new guns are semi-automatic pistols and primarily either 380 or 9mm. Easy to conceal, easy to handle by smaller hands. As a first gun this makes perfect sense.
What is lesser known is that more and more women are opting for the AR for home defense. While I don't necessarily agree with that decision, those decisions are also perfectly sensible.
I find that I am training more and more women on the care and feeding to the AR on a monthly basis. And even that is interesting in that because of the political stigma the AR has been painted with they don't want their friends and neighbors to know that they own an AR. Even so, they LOVE the AR. They make comments such as, "This is FUN!" or, "it's so cute." and such. Bottom line, once they shoot it, they love it. To be certain they still represent a small portion of the market, but it's growing.
And that brings us to the politics. As women are starting to represent a growing portion of gun owners, and among them there is a growing portion of those that own AR's the potential for restrictions on gun ownership fall. Women are taking ownership of their own well being and learning their ability to fend off attackers. They are quickly learning the old advertising line, "God created men, but Col. Colt made them all equal" has merit. They are enjoying the level of empowerment, and subsequent lack of fear, that ownership and the ability to use the tool gives them. Quite frankly my students, after the initial apprehension, express an enthusiasm that borders on a climax.
And that does NOT bode well for the gun grabbers. A great deal of their political base are female, single and/or suburban. These women are more confident in their ability to protect themselves, their families, and those around them. Meaning they are less susceptible to the use of fear tactics when making voting decisions. And that translates into them being considerably less likely to be wooed by the politicians that want to restrict, or remove, that sense of empowerment from them. The line that, "you don't need that for hunting" causes them to turn a deaf ear. They aren't hunters and most of them never will be, their motivation comes from an entirely different direction.
Returning back to the reasons that gun ownership is spiking and that more and more women are joining the ranks is the underlying notion that those who want to severely restrict, and in some cases out and out outlaw, gun ownership were intentionally allowing the lawlessness we saw occur, and in some cases even encouraging that behavior for the very purpose of pushing their 'gun control' agenda. In some cases, not all, there are some true believers out there, that is absolutely true. Those 'true believers' and the rest are going to have to address the changing demographics of gun owners. So far their 'sales tactics' haven't changed and the longer they go on singing the same song the worse the outcome for their agenda.
The anti-gunners are left with two alternatives as I see it. Brut force a ban right now fully knowing that they will subject themselves to great political risk or continue to try to nibble away at the fringes making no substantial headway but being able to crow to their constituents that they 'did something.' This will be the choices of the existing gun banning group. They are far too entrenched in their agenda to change. What their agenda will morph into a generation from now remains to be seen, the current leadership of the movement will be gone and the up and comers will be dealing with a new reality.
As a side note, it's going to be interesting to see what impact the new legislation potentially requiring young women to register for the draft will have on attitudes towards guns and ownership of same.
What is less discussed is that over 40% of those buyers are new gun owners. That is a substantial jump from previous statistics. What's even more interesting is that women make up almost 50% of those new owners. Even more interesting is that 23% of those new women owners are black.
The majority of those new guns are semi-automatic pistols and primarily either 380 or 9mm. Easy to conceal, easy to handle by smaller hands. As a first gun this makes perfect sense.
What is lesser known is that more and more women are opting for the AR for home defense. While I don't necessarily agree with that decision, those decisions are also perfectly sensible.
I find that I am training more and more women on the care and feeding to the AR on a monthly basis. And even that is interesting in that because of the political stigma the AR has been painted with they don't want their friends and neighbors to know that they own an AR. Even so, they LOVE the AR. They make comments such as, "This is FUN!" or, "it's so cute." and such. Bottom line, once they shoot it, they love it. To be certain they still represent a small portion of the market, but it's growing.
And that brings us to the politics. As women are starting to represent a growing portion of gun owners, and among them there is a growing portion of those that own AR's the potential for restrictions on gun ownership fall. Women are taking ownership of their own well being and learning their ability to fend off attackers. They are quickly learning the old advertising line, "God created men, but Col. Colt made them all equal" has merit. They are enjoying the level of empowerment, and subsequent lack of fear, that ownership and the ability to use the tool gives them. Quite frankly my students, after the initial apprehension, express an enthusiasm that borders on a climax.
And that does NOT bode well for the gun grabbers. A great deal of their political base are female, single and/or suburban. These women are more confident in their ability to protect themselves, their families, and those around them. Meaning they are less susceptible to the use of fear tactics when making voting decisions. And that translates into them being considerably less likely to be wooed by the politicians that want to restrict, or remove, that sense of empowerment from them. The line that, "you don't need that for hunting" causes them to turn a deaf ear. They aren't hunters and most of them never will be, their motivation comes from an entirely different direction.
Returning back to the reasons that gun ownership is spiking and that more and more women are joining the ranks is the underlying notion that those who want to severely restrict, and in some cases out and out outlaw, gun ownership were intentionally allowing the lawlessness we saw occur, and in some cases even encouraging that behavior for the very purpose of pushing their 'gun control' agenda. In some cases, not all, there are some true believers out there, that is absolutely true. Those 'true believers' and the rest are going to have to address the changing demographics of gun owners. So far their 'sales tactics' haven't changed and the longer they go on singing the same song the worse the outcome for their agenda.
The anti-gunners are left with two alternatives as I see it. Brut force a ban right now fully knowing that they will subject themselves to great political risk or continue to try to nibble away at the fringes making no substantial headway but being able to crow to their constituents that they 'did something.' This will be the choices of the existing gun banning group. They are far too entrenched in their agenda to change. What their agenda will morph into a generation from now remains to be seen, the current leadership of the movement will be gone and the up and comers will be dealing with a new reality.
As a side note, it's going to be interesting to see what impact the new legislation potentially requiring young women to register for the draft will have on attitudes towards guns and ownership of same.
