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From 1994 to 2023, gun ownership increased 28% in America. In 2023, about 16.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. In the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5 million firearms were sold, averaging around 1.3 million per month. About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [3]
Rural Americans own guns for safety and sport. About 51% of rural poll respondents are gun owners, like Basham and Hendricks, compared to 20% of those who live in urban areas.
Pennsylvania ranked higher than most states for gun sales in 2023 and the first four months of 2024, according to a review of data from SafeHomes. Americans bought 5.5 million guns to start 2024 ...
[13] [attribution needed] U.S. civilians own 393 million guns. American civilians own more guns "than those held by civilians in the other top 25 countries combined." [14] [attribution needed] In 2018 it was estimated that U.S. civilians own 393 million firearms, [15] and that 40% to 42% of the households in the country have at least one gun ...
More Americans own guns for personal protection than ever before, a new survey shows. Gun sales surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, as did gun-related deaths. In 2021, ...
See also: Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country. It provides estimates of the total number of civilian guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 persons. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that possesses guns. This is because individuals can possess more than one gun.
American civilians own over 393 million guns. "Americans made up 4 percent of the world's population but owned about 46 percent of the entire global stock of 857 million civilian firearms." [18] That is three times as many guns as the combined stockpile of the world's armed forces. [19] American civilians own more guns "than those held by ...
Texas had more firearms sold in the first four months of 2024 than any other state. However, Texas is listed lower for gun owners per capita.