{"id":2741,"date":"2023-12-30T14:05:48","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T14:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2023-12-30T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T14:05:48","slug":"colts-maxim-wider-gun-ownership-spread-more-equality-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Colt&#8217;s Maxim: Wider Gun Ownership Spread More Equality in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"396\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-696x396.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-696x396.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-700x398.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-739x420.jpg 739w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women-560x318.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/gunsite-range-pistol-training-women.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"gunsite range pistol training women\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/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;\"><em>By gender, gun ownership especially boomed among women. Between 2019 and 2021, as gun purchases exploded, about half of firearm customers were women, according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Women were the most likely new gun-owner demographic during those years, researchers found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Fox News Digital previously spoke with a female gun instructor, Robin Evans, who has trained nearly 5,000 women on gun safety. Evans explained in an interview this month that many women are refusing to become victims and are turning to firearms to better ensure that mission.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI feel like every single day, there\u2019s another woman who thought she would never pick up a gun\u2026 and they understand what type of world we live in right now.\u201d Evans, the founder and owner of self-defense training company called Chicks with Triggers, told Fox News Digital earlier this month. \u201cAnd, unfortunately, it gets more dangerous every single day. And so I think more women are starting to really come around to the fact that, \u2018Hey, I never thought I would be here, but this is where the world is, so I gotta get prepared.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Evans said roughly 60% of her clientele have encountered dangerous and violent situations themselves, including domestic abuse, rape or kidnapping. Stories reported by Fox News Digital this year show many of the women who used their firearms to thwart violence did so against someone they knew, including ex-boyfriends.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Florida woman, for example, turned<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the tables on her armed ex-boyfriend who showed up to her home on Easter Sunday and shot him dead with her own gun. Investigators at the time said the ex-boyfriend had \u201ca prior domestic relationship\u201d with the unidentified woman living in the home, and he traveled to the duplex armed with a gun to \u201cconfront\u201d the woman.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014 Emma Colton in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/armed-women-nationwide-refused-victims-2023-gun-ownership-increases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armed women nationwide refused \u2018to be victims\u2019 in 2023 as gun ownership increases<\/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\/colts-maxim-wider-gun-ownership-spread-more-equality-in-2023\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 By gender, gun ownership especially boomed among women. Between 2019 and 2021, as gun purchases exploded, about half of firearm customers were women, according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Women were the most likely new gun-owner demographic during those years, researchers found. 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