Asian Americans have experienced intensifying venom, including bullying, racist comments, and harassment.

感染広がる米国、弾薬の売上急増「最悪のケースに備え」

Coronavirus Fears Spur Sales of Ammo & Survival Gearhttps://t.co/2KRzRWQist

米国ではトイレットペーパーではなく弾薬が買い占められてます・・・はい？

— EARLの医学ツイート (@EARL_Med_Tw) March 6, 2020

Asian-Americans Terrified of Coronavirus Backlash Stock Up on Guns
XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE?
One store owner said he sold out of Glocks, and that customers tried to buy his entire inventory of ammo branded for home defense: “They think it’s Costco.”


Champe Barton
Updated Mar. 06, 2020

“People are panicking because they don’t feel secure,” said David Liu, who is Chinese American and owns Arcadia Firearm and Safety, which is just east of Los Angeles. “They worry about a riot or maybe that people will start to target the Chinese.”

Liu said his store had seen a fivefold increase in sales over the past two weeks. He’s sold out of Glock handguns, and some customers have requested to buy his entire inventory of ammunition branded for home defense. “They think it’s Costco,” he said.


According to Liu, the surge customers are overwhelmingly of Chinese descent. They worry, he explained, that in the event of mass panic, they might face violence because of their ethnicity and be easy victims because of their historically low rates of gun ownership. Surveys of gun ownership don’t usually track Asian Americans separately, but instead include them in an “other” category that is typically very small.

As The Los Angeles Times has reported, since the first novel coronavirus outbreaks in the United States, Asian Americans have experienced intensifying venom, including bullying, racist comments, and harassment. On February 24, a man of East Asian descent was assaulted in central London. One of the assailants reportedly said, “I don't want your coronavirus in my country.”

“The main thing I’m hearing is that they don’t wanna get jumped because of their race,” said Cole Gaughran, the internet sales manager at Wade’s Eastside Guns in Bellevue, Washington. Gaughran said his store has seen a sixfold increase in sales in the same two weeks. His new customers, most of them first-time gun owners, were almost entirely of Asian descent, he said. Bellevue is just a 15 minute drive from Kirkland, where at least 11 people have died from the virus.

アジア系アメリカ人も暴動の標的になるのは自分たちだ、ということで、ライフルを買い始めいてるんですね・・・・あこがれの”欧米”で。