'We're working seven days a week, 12 hours a day, just to keep up with the public at the door,' one gun-store owner told Newsweek.
A cyclist rides past the Martin B. Retting, Inc. guns store as the coronavirus pandemic continues on March 24, 2020, in Culver City, California. In California many gun dealers have stopped answering the phones out of an inability to service the massive influx of new customers.The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted more background checks in March than it has ever before, processing around 3.7 million of these requests from federally licensed firearm dealers.
An assortment of fears stemming from the spread of the novel coronavirus are universally indicated as the driving force behind the March numbers. Concerns about social unrest, racist attacks, looting and a scarcity of resources have all been cited by industry insiders and customers. At Burbank Ammo & Guns, a dealer outside of Los Angeles, employees have had to stop answering online queries, and the store's phones ring on end until calls are automatically disconnected.
Reports have indicated that demographic groups once thought unlikely to seek out firearms are helping to drive the unprecedented surge. Asian Americans, for example, who have been unfairly targeted due to racist stereotypes about the novel coronavirus,"It's not just the good old white boys from the back row buying guns," Schwartz observed."It's anybody and everybody. As diverse as I've ever seen it, which means something to me.
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