Pennsylvanians bought nearly 71,000 guns in November, part of a nationwide buying spree that saw Americans buy about 1.4 million guns, a up-to-date analysis shows. FBI data shows.
This seasonally adjusted nationwide figure of 1.36 million firearms sold includes 840,000 handguns and 520,000 long weapons (rifles and shoguns), according to “Ślad”.which reports on guns and gun violence across the country.
Pennsylvania’s seasonally adjusted total gun sales last month of 70,988 units represented a 1% enhance over October sales total of 69,988 unitsaccording to Trace and decreased slightly compared to sales recorded in November 2021.
According to the data, November sales in the commonwealth included 48,595 handguns and 22,395 long weapons. Trace.
Online news website sales estimates are from data With National instant criminal background check system (NICS), run by FBI. The background check system was launched in November 1998.
Trace Company data that goes back 22 years to 2000 shows the ebbs and flows of gun sales in the Keystone State. Statewide gun purchases spiked in June 2020 in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 142,362 guns sold statewide.
According to seasonal data, this seasonally adjusted total included 109,699 handguns and 32,663 long guns. Trace.
The enhance in purchases in Pennsylvania reflected a broader, nationwide trend of more Americans buying guns during the height of the public health crisis. according to The Guardian.. About one-fifth of buyers are first-time buyers, the newspaper reported.
Trace Company data shows Americans bought nearly 22 million guns during the 2020 pandemic. The unadjusted figures included 13.5 million handguns and 8.2 million long guns, according to Trace.
Gun violence prevention advocates have pointed to an overabundance of guns as one of the factors contributing to the nation’s gun violence epidemic. According to a British Medical Journal study published in 2019.
“The Americans are engaged in an arms race with themselves.” Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson he told the New York Times. in May 2021. “At the beginning of the pandemic, there were as many runs for guns as for toilet paper.”
Pennsylvania has measures restricting access to guns and providing for more stringent background checks failed to advance from the Republican-controlled state House of Representatives during the last legislative session.
Lawmakers ultimately approved and Democrats Governor Tom Wolf signed, money for gun violence prevention programs in the state budget for 2022-23, but no broader reforms, including the so-called red flag law, frustrated supporters.
According to a report published by The Times, an average of approximately 1,628 people are killed by guns in Pennsylvania each year. Throughout the city for gun safety, a nonprofit organization working to raise awareness of gun violence nationwide – reports Capital-Star in July. This represented a 15 percent enhance from 2010 to 2019 and ranks Pennsylvania as the 27th highest rate of gun violence in the nation.
The report found that about 62 percent – or just over 1,000 – of these deaths were suicides, and 35 percent – or more than 550 – were homicides.
Republican lawmakers finished the year continuing impeachment With Philadelphia District Attorney Larry KrasnerDemocrat, alleging, among other things, that his policies have further exacerbated an already deadly problem of gun violence in Pennsylvania’s largest city. The trial is ongoing in the state Senate are scheduled to start in mid-January.
