Frank Langfitt

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.

When people buy a gun in the United States, of course, they don't have to say why.

But I did look at Google Trends and it was interesting.

I put in the phrase, how do I buy a gun?

And I saw that it spiked a number of times in the last year.

Yeah, pretty interesting.

Around the time of Trump's election, his inauguration, the first immigration enforcement blitz that was back in January, and the day when Trump held a military parade here in Washington.

You know, they feel, Aisha, the ones that I talked to, that the Trump administration has it out for them.

Here's just a couple of examples that they cite.

You know, the president ordered federal departments to define gender as unchangeable and assigned at birth.

He also banned transgender people from serving in the armed forces.

I've been talking to Dana, who works as a software engineering consultant in the Boston area.

Like Charles, Dana grew up in a very anti-gun household and also, like Charles, does not want their name out there.

Now, Dana had done a little bit of training with the Pink Pistols.

That was a group we heard from earlier, which caters to LGBTQ folks.