How Covid-19 Spikes The Gun Sale in USA

In the United States, gun culture encompasses the behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs about firearms and their usage by civilians. Gun politics in the United States tend to be polarized between advocates of gun rights, often conservative, and those who support stricter gun control, often liberal.

About 40% of Americans say that they or someone in their household owns a gun, and 22% of individuals (about 72 million people) report owning a gun, according to surveys from Pew and Harvard, and Northeastern.

 

Gun sales in the USA, which spiked sharply during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic due to panic, have continued to increase in the United States, with first-time buyers making up more than one-fifth of Americans who purchased guns.

The government doesn’t track firearms sales, but it does track background checks that are required to buy guns from licensed dealers. For handguns in June, those were nearly three times higher than a year earlier.

 

The latest figure also tops the previous high of 3.3 million, which was set in December 2015 after the Obama administration raised the possibility of restricting assault rifles in the wake of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. The FBI conducted 3.7m background checks in March 2020, the highest total since the instant background check program began in 1998.

 

The Effect Of Covid Crisis On Gun sales 

In the early weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., Americans were sent into a panic. People were becoming ill. Grocery stores were being left with empty shelves. Entire cities were being shut down. All of it, because there was an unknown fear hanging overhead.

 

Hidden beneath that surface of fear, there was a growing desire to ensure safety no matter what. That desire drove people — by the millions — to gun shops as they looked for a simple way to ward off any threats of something they could see and didn’t understand, experts suggest.

 

“Ordinarily, this time of year is the low season of firearms sales,” says Expert at chief economist at Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting,

 

But Combining the COVID-19 crisis and political unrest changed that. “Instead, it turned out to be the best-selling season ever for the US gun industry.