{"id":88378,"date":"2022-12-06T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88378"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:09:01","slug":"88378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88378","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

GUN CONTROL YELLS FOR MORE WHILE MORE AMERICANS KEEP SAYING NO<\/a><\/p>\n

Historic numbers of law-abiding Americans joined the gun-owning community for the first time in recent years, including large numbers of women and minorities. National gun control groups at the same time continue to shout for stricter gun control laws.<\/p>\n

As Americans take up their rights, shun those calls and personally navigate the process to legally buy a firearm, one thing\u2019s becoming clearer. They reject stricter gun control.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Gun Control Support Slides<\/h4>\n

Nearly 40 million firearms were legally purchased by Americans between January 2020 and December 2021. Industry data revealed that included roughly 10 million first-time buyers. They\u2019d had enough of feeling unsafe due to riots, looting and the defund-the-police movement that they embraced their Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

The gun-buying pace has continued this year and November marked the\u00a039th month in a row<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of at least\u00a01<\/strong>\u00a0million<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications processed. Surprising no one in the firearm industry, the ongoing gun buying spree has coincided with a drop in support for stricter gun control laws.<\/p>\n

According<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to The Hill, the percentage of Americans supporting stricter gun laws has fallen nine points since June. The\u00a0latest Gallup poll<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0shows 57 percent of U.S. adults \u201cdesire stricter gun laws,\u201d compared to 66 percent in June. When Gallup first began tracking Americans\u2019 feelings on gun control 30 years ago, support for stricter laws registered nearly 80 percent.<\/p>\n

Changing Faces<\/h4>\n

National gun control groups and an antigun media frequently caricature the American gun owner as an \u2018old white man<\/a><\/strong>\u2019 stockpiling firearms. This characterization doesn\u2019t hold true.<\/p>\n

Gun owners are increasingly female with large percentage jumps in minority gun ownership too, including African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans. Earlier this year, NBC News finally\u00a0reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on \u201cWhy more Black people are looking for safety in gun ownership.\u201d The report highlighted NSSF industry data showing 90 percent of gun retailers reported a \u201cgeneral increase\u201d of Black customers, including an 87 percent increase among Black women. A headline from\u00a0The Cut<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reads, \u201cThe New Face of American Gun Ownership \u2013\u00a0Black women are pushing against the (white, rural, and male) stereotype.\u201d \u201cIn recent years, story after story has furthered the narrative that Black women are the fastest-growing group of gun owners in the country,\u201d The Cut\u2019s report said, adding Black women now make up a majority of the 40,000 members of the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA).<\/p>\n

These trends are reflected in the new Gallup poll as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cGun ownership among women has swelled from the low teens to more than 20 percent over the past 15 years, while it has remained in the low to mid-40s among men during the same period,\u201d the\u00a0poll shows<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

As more law-abiding Americans learn firsthand about the restrictions forced on them in order to exercise their Constitutional right to own a gun, their understanding of gun control changes and are in turn rejecting it. After all, criminals don\u2019t follow any of these laws when they illegally obtain firearms used in their crimes.<\/p>\n

Failing Election Strategy<\/h4>\n

The message might be resonating with gun control groups. The recent declines in public support for more gun control was reflected in recent\u00a0advertising campaigns<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0leading up to the midterm elections. In\u00a0Florida<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0for example, national gun control groups spent millions trying to persuade voters \u2013 specifically Hispanic Americans \u2013 that they needed more gun control. Those voters, turned off by the race-based targeting and also their history with gun control from countries like Cuba, voted pro-Second Amendment, flipping four seats in southern Florida from Blue to Red.<\/p>\n

In Texas, Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke tried for the\u00a0third time<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to win in Texas with a gun control message platform only to be rejected in the governor\u2019s race. Gun control groups again spent big to help O\u2019Rourke but third time wasn\u2019t a charm.<\/p>\n

Gun control groups \u2013 Everytown for Gun Safety, Giffords and Brady \u2013 are virtually absent from the high-stakes senate runoff race in Georgia, where staunch gun rights Gov. Brian Kemp easily won reelection just one month ago, with a strong message of supporting the firearm industry and safe legal gun ownership.<\/p>\n

Gun control groups may keep running their same playbook of more restrictions and fewer rights. The American people are making their message known loud and clear: they aren\u2019t buying more gun control, they\u2019re buying firearms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GUN CONTROL YELLS FOR MORE WHILE MORE AMERICANS KEEP SAYING NO Historic numbers of law-abiding Americans joined the gun-owning community for the first time in recent years, including large numbers of women and minorities. National gun control groups at the same time continue to shout for stricter gun control laws. As Americans take up their … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88379,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378\/revisions\/88379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}