by Bob Walsh
According to the ATF annual Firearms Commerce Report and the 2018 Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Exportation Report, the following are actual facts.
There are about 422.9 million firearms in the hands of private citizens in the U.S. That is about 1.3 guns per warm body.
There are 17,740,000 Modern Sporting Rifles (meaning AR-15 variants) in private ownership right now.
About 54% of all firearms produced in the U. S. in 2017 were Modern Sporting Rifles.
In 2017, a total of 7,901,218 firearms were either produced or legally imported into the U.S. Of those 4,411,323 were handguns.
Interim estimates indicate that in 2018 a total of 7,660,772 firearms were either produced or legally imported into the U.S. Of that number 4,277,971 were handguns.
An estimated 8.1 billion rounds of ammo were produced or imported for the American market in 2018.
2 comments:
Doesn't sound crazy to me. Some people have several firearms and some people don't own any. As far as ammo goes, the local, state and federal government keeps quite a bit of ammo and that doesn't include the military. I don't think that 200 to 500 rounds per weapon owned by a private citizen is a stretch.
I have always been told that a serious gun owner has about 1,000 rounds in stock for each caliber he-she owns. Maybe more. I admit to being a little light on .455 Webley and 9mm Steyer, but I try to hold up my end of the quota.
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