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Arizona gun sales hit record in 2020, driven by pandemic, protests, politics

Gun sales hit record, driven by protests, politics

Cronkite News Background checks for gun purchases in Arizona hit their highest level ever in 2020, driven by an unprecedented convergence of a pandemic, a summer of national unrest and a presidential election, experts said. At the beginning of December, 610,911 background checks had been performed in the state through November, well over the 372,912 done in all of 2019, according to FBI data. The Arizona spike is part of a nationwide increase, said Kelly Drane, research director at Giffords Law Center, a gun control advocacy group. She estimated that there was a nearly 90% increase in gun sales nationally from March to October this year compared to last year, with early data indicating “a substantial number of these purchases were made by new gun owners.”

Gun sales hit record in 2020, driven by pandemic, protests, politics

Gun sales hit record in 2020, driven by pandemic, protests, politics Gun sales through November 2020 were already 47% higher than in all of 2016, which had been the record for the Arizona. By Calah Schlabach | December 21, 2020 at 8:05 AM MST - Updated December 21 at 8:05 AM WASHINGTON – Background checks for gun purchases in Arizona hit their highest level ever in 2020, driven by an unprecedented convergence of a pandemic, a summer of national unrest and a presidential election, experts said. With a month left to go in the year, 610,911 background checks had been performed in the state through November, well over the 372,912 done in all of 2019, according to FBI data.

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