Harvard/Northeastern study: Women now account for nearly half of all new gun owners

That’s quite a cultural shift — and it will likely lead to a political shift as well, and not in favor of the current administration. Women accounted for almost half of all new gun owners in a 27-month period that includes the pandemic as well as the Democratic presidential primary run-up, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard and Northeastern. Clearly, the gun-control rhetoric of the campaign and in the Biden administration has not had its intended impact:

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Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study.

The preliminary results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey, designed by Deborah Azrael of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Matthew Miller of Northeastern University, show an estimated 3.5 million women became new gun owners from January 2019 through April of this year. About 4 million men became new gun owners over that period, they found.

For decades, other surveys have found that around 10% to 20% of American gun owners were women.

What makes this shift even more interesting is that gun-control advocates have spent the last several years attempting to recruit women to their ranks. Shannon Watts founded “Moms Demand Action” eight years ago on the explicit argument that maternal instincts should be directed into opposing gun rights. It eventually got folded into Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety in 2017, so they have been well funded for quite some time.

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Harvard/Northeastern study: Women now account for nearly half of all new gun owners

Harvard/Northeastern study: Women now account for nearly half of all new gun owners

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