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They don't explain how they get their data -- maybe from states with true registries or backdoor registries, but I at least hope that the reported 2m (NRA) to 2.5m (NSSF) new gun ownders as of June 4, 2020 is correct:
Over 2M new gun owners reported in first half of 2020
More than 2 million Americans became first-time gun owners in the first half of 2020.www.foxbusiness.com
I think the link got deleted along with other posts last night, but this study/research supports my assertions and the trends (scroll down to the graphs by state) support what I have been saying for some time now regarding the percentage of ownership decreasing over time:
How Many People Own Guns in Your State?
A new study from RAND offers several decades of household firearm ownership estimates.
www.thetrace.org
This was over a 4 year period and the data is four years old so it won't account for trends this year, but I doubt even the buying spree we have been seeing this year would have that much effect.
A lot of people have been assuming many of these buyers are new and some significant percentage are new owners, but that is just an assumption, one that may be wishful thinking. Even if true, a few months of buying would just be a blip.
If past history of panic buying is any indicator, a significant number of new owners will either sell their guns when the panic passes, or they will stuff them away in a closet and forget them. I doubt any significant percentage of new owners who were anti-gun in the past will vote any different in the future; cognitive dissonance is just human nature after all.