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NEWINGTON — Gun laws in Connecticut have gone through drastic changes in recent years, with another series of new regulations up for debate at the state capitol. Amid those debates a new trend is emerging in which a growing number of women are becoming gun owners.
The Connecticut's Citizen's Defense League told FOX61 they have a total of 27,000 members who own firearms, roughly 5,400 of those members are women, and that the majority of their women members joined in just the last four years.
"There's definitely an ever growing rate of women shooters, we see it, its apparent here in the store," Peter McClusky, sales manager of Hoffman's Gun Center in Newington, said. He went on to say, "In the industry the rate of women that are getting involved competition shooting that kind of stuff definitely going up there in numbers."
When it comes to gun ownership, the numbers show the gender gap is shrunk by roughly 20 percent between 1990 and 2014, according to the independent research organization, NORC at the University of Chicago.
Read More: More women owning guns; What's triggering the change?
