Customers queue outside a gun shop in Culver City, California, in March last year. The coronavirus crisis has been one factor driving a surge in salesA rise in gun sales across the US has left the police and most other regular users of firearms desperately short of ammunition. More than eight million people bought a gun for the first time last year, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, with many spurred on by lockdown orders, the slower police response times, and a surge in gun violence in many cities across the US. Sponsored“When you talk about all these people buying guns, it really has an impact on people buying ammunition . if you look at 8.4 million [new] gun buyers and they all want to buy one box with

Source: The Times August 02, 2021 16:41 UTC