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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.
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, ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
[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 ...
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The Small Arms Survey 2017 [1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns, because single individuals can own multiple guns. See also Percent of households with guns by country.