Pandemic gun violence surge was not linked to rise in gun sales, study finds

[BGBD]

9. That's assuming

that everyone filling out a background check for the time is also a first time gun owner. That's not the case. Personally the first time I did a background check was when I bought a pistol in around 2008....but I had owned a gun at least 10 years before that...and several in fact.

That's why I mentioned the increase not in first time gun buyers, but instead of people who previously didn't have ready access to a gun. That number I suspect is much smaller.

If murders increased I would assume that it's because in 2020 we were all forced to be locked up with the people most likely to murder us....our families.