[MileHi]

Some nine million Americans became new gun owners.

How do we know this?

[rktman]

SWAG from nics reports?

[bdfromlv]

should read “some 9 million new guns were sold”

[marktwain]

Some nine million Americans became new gun owners.

How do we know this?

It is based on a survey conducted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), which found, at one point, that 40% of the gun buyers in 2020 were new gun buyers.

I have seen another estimate it was only 4-5 million new gun buyers.