I’ve spent much of the past six months interviewing people across the United States in the leadup to the [New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen] case—part of research for a book I’m writing about the cultural and racial effects of U.S. gun laws. Although I uncovered a wide range of opinions, these … Read more
By Larry Keane The FBI released the Uniform Crime Report which showed an abrupt rise in crime. It was hardly startling to those reading or watching the news. The report showed a 29 percent jump in murders in 2020. It is reportedly the largest increase since nationwide records began in the 1960s. That’s got gun control proponents banging the … Read more
One factor in the shocking increase in violence is very clear: “The rise in violence in 2020 appears to be almost entirely a rise in gun violence, rather than a more general increase in all forms of crime,” the Princeton sociologist Patrick Sharkey wrote to me in an email. In an average year, guns … Read more
By Larry Keane The media got another lesson on the dangers of getting ahead of the facts when it comes to their reporting. This time, they blamed gun buyers for the spike in crime. Turns out, law-abiding citizens who buy guns aren’t the ones committing crimes. They’re buying guns because of the rise in crime. Media are … Read more
According to this Washington Post article, the percentage of Americans who own guns has jumped from 32% to 39% in the past year. That’s due to huge waves of new, first-time gun owners, of all political and cultural persuasions, deciding that owning a firearm is a good idea. For many new gun owners, though, the … Read more
It’s absurd to state — as if it’s a fact — that the pandemic “fueled” the surge when there were riots and the police stood down and did not protect the citizens! I personally got trained to use a gun last summer, and I fired a gun for the first time in my life. That … Read more
With retail shelves practically empty of firearms — semi-autos in particular — and available ammunition a distant memory of The Time Before, no doubt all of TTAG’s readership is well aware that the past nine-plus months have been a strange time for gun and ammo manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and customers. But you probably didn’t know things … Read more
By Joe Bartozzi Twenty-one million. Let that number sink in for a moment. That’s a very big number. If I told you at SHOT Show last year that the industry would see 21 million background checks for the sale of a firearm in 2020, you would have thought I was crazy. One year later and … Read more
Imagine how many guns Illinois residents might have bought in 2020 if the Illinois State Police hadn’t been dragging its feet on FOID card processing all year long. Who is buying these guns? A New York Times analysis shows that buyers cut across almost all demographic groups. Gun ownership has continued to be a flashpoint … Read more
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