The gun owner next door
Montgomery County residents applied for nearly twice as many handgun licenses in 2020 than the year before and the surge in demand isn’t slowing down By Amy Halpern |
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Jay Guan, a longtime gun owner, at his home in Clarksburg. Photo by Erick Gibson
On election night last November, Mike (not his real name) was sitting in his convertible at a traffic light near the Connie Morella Library in downtown Bethesda when he heard a loud crash. Then another. And another. “What’s going on, Dad?” his teenage daughter asked. He was on the phone with her at the time and she heard the commotion in the background.