BY THE NUMBERS

40%—Percentage increase in the number of guns purchased in 2020, from 2019

40%—Share of 2020 gun buyers who were first- time owners

995—-Number of people in the US shot and killed by the police in 2020

$5.8M-Amount spent by the National Rifle Assoc on the Jan 6 Senate runoffs in GA

11——Chapter of the US Bankruptcy code under which the NRA filed for protection

on January 15.