According to the CDC, COVID-19 started in the United States on April 7, 2020. Then in March, every state in the U.S. order the Stay-at-Home order unless needing to go out and get essentials. With everyone staying in, and new laws coming out to close shops and restaurants and of those gun stores were told to close.
At the start of the pandemic, everyone was crazy buying toilet paper, hand sanitizer. Now it is guns and ammo that are on the rise.
“It’s borne out of fear that people are going to go crazy,” said Larry Frandson of Cody Wyoming Guns and Ammo, in an interview with Casper-Star Tribune.
It’s that same fear that is causing our world to change not by the day but by the minute now. The nation went from having a small number of cases to a nationwide stay-at-home order that has been extended to April 30 at the time of this posting.
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) releases a report of the highest weeks or days that get background checks. On the week of March 16 to March 22, 2020, there were 1,197,788 backgrounds check during that week.
It looks like from reports that the majority of the guns and ammo are going to new owners or people who have never owned guns and ammo before. This shouldn’t concern anyone because reports are showing that people are buying ammo and guns the same way people are buying toilet paper, because they can and because they don’t want to have any and then stories or supplies are gone.
For many people, this will subside; as the pandemic has continued, we have seen toilet paper and food return to the shelves; we to will see guns and ammo return to the shelves; it just depends on when.
