Guns and ammunition are flying off the shelves in Illinois, new data shows. Americans have been loading up with weapons amid the Covid-19 outbreak and the riots sparked by the death of George Floyd.
More than 42,000 State of Illinois residents applied for a gun permit between June 1 and June 17, compared to just around 7,000 during the same period last year, the Chicago Tribune reports, citing police statistics. At the same time, the amount of applications filed in the first two weeks of June is close to the number of applications submitted in December, January and February combined.
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