"The historically high sales are adding millions of weapons to a nation that already has more guns than people. The Geneva-based Small Arms Survey estimated the number of U.S. guns at 393 million in 2017. That dwarfed the next highest totals of 71 million in India and nearly 50 million in China - countries that both have populations four times the size of the United States." Now, if folks were buying record numbers of dangerous tools, like shovels, knives, clubs, and so on, would that "make the news"? "Andreyah Garland, a 44-year-old single mother of three daughters, bought a shotgun in May for protection in the quaint middle-class town of Fishkill, New York. She joined a new and fast-growing local gun club to learn how to shoot." "Background checks verify that buyers do not have a criminal record or another issue that might make them ineligible to buy a weapon, such as an arrest warrant or a documented drug addiction. Less than 1% of applicants are denied, according to FBI figures." Above sentence implies that less than 1% of Americans, then, who are interested in gun ownership (legally) are "criminals". See: https://frontier.yahoo.com/news/u-gun-sales-soar-amid-110320689.html Frank