Wow. Gun sales are setting records left and right for 15+ months, and this CBS News station just now figures out that it might be smart reporting to cover the fact that women are the largest growing segment of gun owners in America?
Welcome to 2008.
Women are Fastest Growing Group of Gun Owners in America
(CBSNews Milwaukee) – You might call it girl power. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, women are the fastest-growing group of gun owners in the U.S.
Typically their weapon of choice is a semi-automatic handgun — lightweight, accurate, and so simple that practically anyone can learn to use it.
In states that allow it, a handgun has for some become the must-have accessory.
Pamela Riden told correspondent Tracy Smith she carries a gun for personal protection: “Makes me feel secure.”
“I’ve got two kids,” said Colleen Krehbiel. “And I just wanted to have something that would keep me safer.” She wears her weapon in a holster on her hip.
“I just feel safer having it with me,” said Laura Bowman, who carries her weapon in the front pocket of her purse.
Amy McCrabb has a gun that’s pink. (“It is pink, I’m a girl!” she laughed.)
Turns out most prefer basic black. And since more women than ever are taking up arms, there are gun stores that cater to women, like She’s A Pistol in Shawnee, Kansas.
Women and young people are buying guns like never before. Gun sales are booming, thanks in part to uncertainty in the world, soft-on-crime prosecutors not imprisoning bad people, and gun grabbers prattling on about plans to ban guns instead of criminals and terrorists.
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