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Members of A Girl & A Gun shooting club during a practice at the
Discount Gun Mart in San Diego.
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Women Are Nearly Half of New Gun Buyers, Study Finds

As gun sales reach a high during Covid-19 pandemic, groups form to
teach women how to handle their new firearms

Members of A Girl & A Gun shooting club during a practice at the
Discount Gun Mart in San Diego.
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| Photographs by Ariana Drehsler for The Wall Street Journal
Sept. 16, 2021 7:46 am ET

SAN DIEGO--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.

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