Gun ownership among Asian Americans spiked during the COVID pandemic amid a rise in anti-Asian violence.
A person stands at a makeshift memorial on Monday outside the scene of this past weekend's mass shooting at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California. On Monday, a mass shooting left seven people dead in the California city of Half Moon Bay. The back-to-back shootings have left Asian American communities reeling.
Although data on firearm use among Asian Americans is limited, they have had low gun ownership rates historically,But Asian Americans who experienced increased acts of racism at the start of the pandemic were more likely to buy firearms and ammunition for self-defense,at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University found last year.
Asian Americans who perceived more cultural racism, including on social media, were also more likely to purchase a gun, the study found after collecting data in December 2020 and January 2021 from a representative national sample of 916 adults who identified as Asian American.
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