{"id":2460,"date":"2023-11-02T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2023-11-02T14:33:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T14:33:51","slug":"gun-sales-jump-as-more-american-jews-buy-guns-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2460","title":{"rendered":"Gun Sales Jump as More American Jews Buy Guns for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/itta.jpg\" data-caption=\"Courtesy Israeli Tactical Training Academy\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"397\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/itta.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/itta.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/itta-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/itta-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/itta-560x333.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" alt=\"American Jews buy guns\" title=\"American Jews buy guns\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Israeli Tactical Training Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-v-43bc4c20=\"\"><em>\u201cWe are seeing Jewish customers buying their first guns,\u201d Whiddon said. \u201cOverall, we\u2019re seeing about a 30-percent increase in business.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-v-43bc4c20=\"\"><em>State Rep. Esther Panitch, (D) 51, says antisemitism has been rising in recent years on the right and the left and has spiked since the Hamas terror attack a few weeks ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-v-43bc4c20=\"\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s a dark and dangerous time for Jews right now,\u201d Panitch, who is the only Jewish American lawmaker in the Georgia legislature, said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\" data-v-43bc4c20=\"\"><em>\u201cI\u2019ve heard from people in the community who are afraid who have talked about other types of self-defense, including firearms,\u201d Panitch said. \u201cI have upgraded my weapons training as a result of what\u2019s going on.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" data-v-43bc4c20=\"\">\u2014 Christopher King in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/israel-hamas-jewish-americans-buying-guns-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia gun store owners say more Jewish Americans buying guns amid Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/gun-sales-jump-as-many-american-jews-buy-guns-for-the-first-time\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Israeli Tactical Training Academy Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 \u201cWe are seeing Jewish customers buying their first guns,\u201d Whiddon said. \u201cOverall, we\u2019re seeing about a 30-percent increase in business.\u201d\u00a0 State Rep. Esther Panitch, (D) 51, says antisemitism has been rising in recent years on the right and the left and has spiked since the Hamas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}