From the NSSF:
In 2021, according to the findings, more than half of the 21,037,810 total firearms made available for the U.S. market were either pistols or revolvers. In all, 12,799,067 were handguns, 4,832,198 were rifles and 3,406,545 were shotguns. The figure includes firearms domestically produced plus those imported (minus exported firearms).
We should be doing better, of course, but that’s a topic for another time.
Some more good shooty news:
28,144,000 modern sporting rifles (MSRs) have been put into circulation since 1990. [that they know about — K.]
Loyal Readers will recall that I don’t have too much time for that “modern sporting rifle” euphemism but hey, as long as more of ’em are getting into citizens’ hands, you can call them butternut squashes as far as I’m concerned.
Hubba hubba. Of course, neither of the above are mine, no sir not me. I’m old-fashioned, as any fule kno.
Just like our Founding Fathers used…
I have 6 butternut squashes and nobody in authority knows anything about them, as it should be.
It’s nobody’s business what I own and retarded tyrannical laws will never change that.
> We should be doing better, of course, but that’s a topic for another time.
Nah, that sounds about right.
Guns last a long time, unless you abuse the cr*p out of them.
We have an adult population of say 265m people (found a number close to that on a web page), if we exclude a few million prisoners, another few million felons, a few million people “adjudicated mentally incompetent”, we probably have say 250 million legally allowed to own guns.
At 20m guns a year flowing out of the factories, that means that it would take 12.5 years to arm everyone…except that we’ve been making guns at about that pace for a long, long time.
Has anyone else realized that the anti rights crowd demonizes the AR15 and those style of rifles as weapons of war yet they have never been involved in any war at all while a 1903 Springfield, Lee Enfield, Mosin Nagant etc HAVE been used in various wars yet these bolt action rifles have not attracted the ire of the evil gun grabbers? I know it’s all about perception and this is just another example of their irrational thought process.
Yet another thing I like about the firearms community, is that there is room for everyone. If you want to do Cowboy Action shooting, hunting, three gun, bowling pins, silhouette, black powder, high power, 22lr leagues, shotgun sports or even just casual informal practice, there is a place for you.
The good news is that those are just the published “on book” numbers and don’t take into account the enlightened States where you can buy private party.
Those numbers are production, not sales.
“more than half of the 21,037,810 total firearms made available for the U.S. market were either pistols or revolvers”
Since when are revolvers not pistols???