Meet Some of America's Newest Gun Owners

These five Americans are upending preconceptions about who buys a gun and why.

In hours of conversations with New York Times journalists, they shared deeply individual reasons for their leaps into gun ownership. But there were also common threads: new fears about political violence and hate crimes, and a diminished trust in law enforcement.

While a majority of gun owners are white, conservative, male and from rural areas, some surveys have detected an uptick in those who are not. Behind the data, the stories of individual Americans who have bought guns in the past five years offer clues about how the country is changing — as the definitions of liberal and conservative evolve, and angst about our divisions runs high.

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