In "Why Left-Leaning Americans Are Heading to Gun Stores in Droves," Tactical Sh!t reports that "[a] growing number of liberals, Democrats, people of color, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals are heading to gun shops and ranges—not out of a sudden love for traditional gun culture, but driven by fear, self-protection, and a rethinking of what the Second Amendment means when the political winds shift."
According to an NBC News survey highlighted in the reporting, Democratic households with guns jumped from 33% in 2019 to 41% by around 2024. That’s a significant rise, even as overall gun sales have cooled from the 2020 pandemic peak of about 22 million. Annual sales still hover around 15 million, higher than pre-pandemic levels.
Liberal-leaning gun clubs are seeing explosive growth. The Liberal Gun Club reported membership surging 66% (from 2,700 to 4,500) in the year leading up to early 2026, with training requests exploding. Groups like the Socialist Rifle Association, Pink Pistols, and A Better Way 2A are expanding classes and welcoming newcomers who never thought they’d own a firearm.
The article goes into various reasons why of the increased interest but it seems to boil down to the Left suddenly being afraid of "tyranny" because they lost an election to someone who was a moderate Democrat 20 years ago and still holds those views today (yes, Trump is what Bill Clinton professed to be). But I would guess that part of what is driving this is an increasing number of leftists finally getting an opportunity to enjoy the diversity that they have been wanting for so long, but they don't want to admit that they are buying a gun because they no longer live or work in a safe neighborhood.
Update:
John Hawkins at Right Wing News has some thoughts on this:
Why are Americans buying so many guns? Why is prepping becoming more popular? Why do I personally know more than one smart person who has gone “off the grid” or bought rural farmland in recent years because they think the country is about to fall to pieces? Some people might write this off as sour grapes about the election, however, this was going on long before Joe Biden and Donald Trump started campaigning against each other.
It’s ultimately about the fact that for a country to hold together there need to be a lot of shared values. If half the country believes in the values that made America successful in the first place while the other half of the country is demanding to live in some sort of atheistic socialist utopia that hates everything those other people believe in and stand for, we have what is known in a marriage as irreconcilable differences. Once our value systems are that far apart, there is no such thing as a win/win situation. ...
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