Yes and no.
My friend's parents bought a gun last week (well, maybe 10 days or so now).
M&P, 9mm...sorry, I dont know all the gun types.
Anyway, they've never held anything other than a shotgun before, and even that was limited.
While Ive not personally spoken with them since the buy, I was with their son and he was texting as I had questions etc
They bought a light/laser combo for it, a few boxes of ammo.
I offered them to go to PHA to practice, but we've not set anything up since then (last Saturday or Sunday).
They're bright folks, just lean left on stuff.
Mother is a nurse, father owns a distribution business of some type.
Nice folks, kind folks, but never been into guns.
Im hoping to take them shooting sometime and maybe it gets more folks like them understanding that while these are deadly weapons [dont kid yourselves, they can kill], they're also just tools and it's up to the possessor/user how they'll be used. Hopefully they'll wake up (making broad brush statement here) to the idea that gun owners arent the dangerous folks that maybe the media has depicted