The Chicago Syndicate: Ever greater numbers of women are buying and learning to use guns for self-defense

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Ever greater numbers of women are buying and learning to use guns for self-defense

According to Gallup poll data, the percentage of American women who own a firearm nearly doubled from 2005-2011, rising from 13 percent to 23 percent.

In August, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reported that 37 percent of new target shooters are female, though they comprise only 22 percent of the established target-shooting population.

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