While white men still represent the largest gun owners in the US, women, and specifically Black Women, represent a growing share of the firearm sales market. The NAAGA was founded in 2015, and to date currently has about 48,000 members and 120 chapters across the United States. This has risen from the 30,000 and only 75 chapters reported in 2019.
Many of the new women firearms owners today, say that having a firearm allows them to take their safety into their own hands. Black women experience domestic violence and other violent crimes at disproportionately higher rates than White women. Black woman according to a report from the National Center for Victims of Crime found that 41.2% of Black Woman had experienced physical abuse. More disturbing than that static is that Black woman are 2.5 times more likely to be murdered by men than a white woman. In the overwhelming majority of these cases — 92% — the person who killed them knew their victim. 56% of these homicides were committed by a current or former intimate partner. Nearly all —92% — of these killings were intra-racial, which means that they were committed by a Black man against a Black woman.
With statistics like these, the Black Women’s Health Project determined that domestic violence is the number one health issue facing Black women.
Domestic Violence is no joke but with these staggering statics, along with politicians across the United States calling for defunding of our Police Departments it is no wonder that we are seeing a rise in legal firearm ownership across the United States with the most recent analysis showing that Black women are purchasing firearms more and more to protect themselves and their children.
Of the 3 Million more people that have purchased a firearm in 2020 a separate survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, an industry trade group, found that 87% of sellers reported an increase in Black women purchasers in the first half of 2021.
BlueEagle Marketing Source: Blackburn Center 2022/02/26
