{"id":1365,"date":"2021-04-05T16:25:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2021-04-17T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:08:08","slug":"report-black-americans-gun-ownership-up-nearly-60-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/report-black-americans-gun-ownership-up-nearly-60-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Black Americans\u2019 Gun Ownership up Nearly 60 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"
\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
by: \u00a0\u00a0 AWR Hawkins \u00a0<\/a>

The Guardian reports<\/a>, \u201cgun\u00a0ownership among Black Americans is up 58.2 percent.\u201d<\/p>

The paper cites National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) figures showing \u201cAmericans bought a\u00a0record\u00a0number of firearms last year,\u201d including an \u201cestimated 5 million people [who] bought their first ever gun between March and August.\u201d<\/p>

Black Americans witnessed the greatest increase among all first-time gun buyers.<\/p>

Gun rights groups like the National African American Gun Association have subsequently seen giant leaps in membership.<\/p>

Anubis Heru owns the 1770 Armory and Gun Club<\/a> in Denver, the first firearm store and simulator range in Colorado to be owned by a black American.<\/p>

Heru commented on the existence of gun rights groups focused on black Americans, \u201cThe value of these groups is learning with people who know your struggle and understand what\u2019s happening and has been happening with this country. Black people and women of color like to come to our facility because we\u2019re not the typical redneck with a tattoo of the\u00a0Three Percenters.\u201d<\/p>

On March 2, 2o21, Breitbart News reported<\/a>\u00a0black Chicagoans were flooding into concealed carry courses seeking to defend themselves against the crime in the Windy City.<\/p>

The\u00a0Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that when one considers new customers nationally in the gun community in 2020, \u201cblack customers accounted for the largest increase of any racial group.\u201d In Chicago specifically, black residents are pouring into gun courses and concealed carry courses, seeking a way to protect themselves from the violence that is all around.<\/p>

AWR\u00a0Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News\u00a0and the writer\/curator of\u00a0Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,\u00a0a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter:\u00a0@AWRHawkins<\/a>. Reach him directly at\u00a0awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. Sign up to get Down Range at\u00a0breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2:19<\/p>\n

Gun ownership among black Americans is up nearly 60 percent following the record gun sales of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-pick"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1.png",640,480,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1-300x225.png",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1.png",640,480,false],"large":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1.png",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1.png",640,480,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1.png",640,480,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1.png",640,480,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1.png",640,480,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-05-at-12.04.24-PM-640x480-1-640x380.png",640,380,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"Editors Pick<\/a>","tag_info":"Editors Pick","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougsdepot.com\/news-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}