Frank Langfitt

No, but among liberals and people of color these days, we're seeing more scenes like this.

No, this has been building for years.

I talked to a man named David Yamani.

He's a professor of sociology at Wake Forest University.

And actually, he's been studying this for a long time.

We definitely saw something similar happening in the COVID year of 2020, where, you know, we rolled straight from the pandemic into the summer of the George Floyd murder protests and then rolling straight from there into a contested presidential election.

And there we do have some data.

We do know that in that year that

New gun owners were disproportionately African-American.

They were disproportionately female.

And while we're focusing on the last year, I think it's important to note that more liberals have been buying guns even before President Trump entered politics.

In 2022, the University of Chicago, they put out a study that found that 29 percent of Democrats or Democrat-leaning people nationwide had a gun at home.

Now, that's seven percentage points higher than it was a dozen years earlier.

Yes, politics can drive sales on both sides of the aisle.

I'm going to give you a couple of examples.

When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, it did trigger a buying spree because some people were afraid that he would enact more gun legislation.

And if you think about California in 2019, that was the year that they put in a law requiring background checks to buy ammunition.

And that also sparked some panic buying.

I wish there were.

But no, the answer is no.