Ayesha Roscoe

Frank, so the people that you talked to, these were people who had until recently been maybe anti-gun or didn't really have experience with guns?

How do you get to this point of, I'm going to go out and buy a gun?

You know, this is a father-daughter day at the gun range in 2025 and not who you would necessarily expect.

Now, this trend of, you know, Black people, liberals, LGBTQ folks, you know, buying guns, it didn't just start on election night in 2024, right?

But isn't it also true that, you know, when Democrats get in office, then a lot of right leaning people go out and buy guns?

Is there any way to know just how many people are actually buying guns these days because they're scared of the political environment?

And so when when were those occasions?

When we come back, we'll hear from another group that's arming up, trans people.

We're back with the Sunday story.

I've been talking with my NPR colleague, Frank Langford, about a growing trend.

More and more liberals and people of color are buying guns and getting training because the political environment scares them.

Frank, earlier we heard from Charles and his daughter, who they're both black.

But you also mentioned that more LGBTQ people have been buying guns.

Like, what are they telling you?

I mean, where is Dana planning to move?

So did anything ever come of that?

So fear of the administration instituting a gun ban actually united liberal trans people and conservative Second Amendment groups.

You mentioned that you did these interviews over, you know, many months.

President Trump has made great

big, bold changes since he took office last January.