Everybody...and I do mean everybody, has a gun in Atlanta. Teenagers, regular folks, old ladies, women.. even the lgbtq folks. I think Arrowhead Pawn is closed now, but it was a pawn/gun shop on Tara Blvd down in Jonesboro. Man going in there on a Friday or a Saturday was like going to Walmart at 5pm on Friday. And 95% of the folks in there were buying guns because their prices were so cheap. They were marking their shit barely above list price... I bought an AK47 from there many a year ago for under $500 brand new in the box.
The amount of guns they sold out of that store was just wild...and that also got them dinged when a dude that was buying a bunch of guns from there and reselling them in NYC got caught. I wouldnt have been surprised at all if they were selling a hundred guns an hour. Adventure outdoors in Smyrna is the same way. All those guns end up somewhere. And here, you're in and out in 20 minutes... background check included. Ten minutes if you have a ccw since all you have to do is fill out the form and pay. Even being a gun person i'll be the first to admit that it's wayyyyyyyyyyy too easy to get guns here.
I know people personally that I grew up with that once they got a gun I stopped fooling with them. Mainly because I knew what type of reckless shit they do even without a gun being in the mix. One of em ended up shooting up a whole block one night because someone said something out of pocket about his momma. Those quick tempered, not really considering the consequences type folks, like him, are often the very first ones to pull out a gun when the situation didn't call for it at all.