434 Million Firearms Manufactured for Private Ownership over Past 25 Years

[Knob Creek]

Good job everyone. No data on how many were for NES members.

'The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) indicates 434 million firearms were manufactured for private ownership over the last 25 years alone.'

'Breitbart News spoke with NSSF public affairs director Mark Oliva late Tuesday and he explained that the 434 million firearms were made for “civilian possession.” This means the whopping figure of 434 million includes firearms made in America for Americans and firearms made abroad then imported into America for Americans.

For those who might ask what percentage of firearms are domestically made versus imported, NSSF production figures show six million firearms were made in the U.S. in 2019 and 3.3. million were imported. The NSSF notes:"

There are approximately 71.2 million pistol magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, and 79.2 million rifle magazines capable of holding 30 or more rounds in circulation.

434 Million Firearms Made for Private Ownership Over Past 25 Years

 

[G617]

Damn, I only have 0.0000007% of them - I need to get that % up

 

[Reptile]

Pump those numbers up!

 

[white feather]

Damn, I only have 0.0000007% of them - I need to get that % up

Three hundred and four is a good number...

 

[xtry51]

People need to bump their magazine numbers up. 10 mags min per gun people! They sell Pmags in boxes of 50 and 100 for a reason!

 

[hminsky]

A bunch of mine are older than that.

 

[whatluck]

lol, that's just the ones they know about.

 

[55_grain]

There are approximately 71.2 million pistol magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, and 79.2 million rifle magazines capable of holding 30 or more rounds in circulation.

I'd bet those numbers don't include the countless millions of mags surplussed out by local military/Nat Guard/etc back when that was commonplace or the other millions of mags sent back for credit by PD's when they turned in their old guns for new ones.

 

[Uzi2]

Let's all work on doubling that number and increasing the number on ammunition by 100 orders of magnitude.

 

[DarthRevan]

People need to bump their magazine numbers up. 10 mags min per gun people! They sell Pmags in boxes of 50 and 100 for a reason!

Is there still the issue of pmags flexing if left loaded?

 

[xtry51]

Is there still the issue of pmags flexing if left loaded?

I've never had this issue and I only run PMAGS. My mags are always loaded. Some of them are 12 years old. Unless they are being fired during training, every mag is loaded all the time.

 

[jkelly1229]

Let's all work on doubling that number and increasing the number on ammunition by 100 orders of magnitude.

O you bought poww stock too?

 

[Nick Leduc]

That they know about.

 

[Zappa]

For the last three decades the media has been saying "there are over 300 million guns in the hands of Americans", we all knew it was higher, but that number barely changed until recently.
So if you add the 434 million new guns made since the mid 90's, the real number must closer to 800 million.

 

[DarthRevan]

There maybe close to 800m but how many people actually practice and know how to properly, accurately, shoot the f***ing things?
Half?

 

[xtry51]

There maybe close to 800m but how many people actually practice and know how to properly, accurately, shoot the f***ing things?
Half?

That a generous number. It's closer to 1%.

 

[Quite_Exasperated]

How many of those have been lost to boating accidents?

 

[chris_1001]

.

 

[MGnoob]

Im shocked we dont have a real problem with people shooting eachother..Once you take out all the suicides and police shootings it’s actually a reasonable number of shootings. Don’t quote me on that it would make liberals heads explode that there’s a “reasonable” number of shootings..
With all the new gun owner ship..And this Covid thing it’s no surprise that people off themselves and/orshoot themselves by accidents(negligence)is on the rise.

My estimate is there’s over a half 1 billion guns floating around

 

[DarthRevan]

Im shocked we dont have a real problem with people shooting eachother..Once you take out all the suicides and police shootings it’s actually a reasonable number of shootings. Don’t quote me on that it would make liberals heads explode that there’s a “reasonable” number of shootings..
With all the new gun owner ship..And this Covid thing it’s no surprise that people off themselves and/orshoot themselves by accidents(negligence)is on the rise.

My estimate is there’s over a half 1 billion guns floating around

They wouldn't care. It's not about numbers, it's about how they feeeeeel

 

[Brewer]

How much is enough?

Just a little bit more.

 

[jkelly1229]

There maybe close to 800m but how many people actually practice and know how to properly, accurately, shoot the f***ing things?
Half?

Also how many new owners are there... of that is the number 30%?

 

[fshalor]

Good job everyone. No data on how many were for NES members.

'The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) indicates 434 million firearms were manufactured for private ownership over the last 25 years alone.'

'Breitbart News spoke with NSSF public affairs director Mark Oliva late Tuesday and he explained that the 434 million firearms were made for “civilian possession.” This means the whopping figure of 434 million includes firearms made in America for Americans and firearms made abroad then imported into America for Americans.

For those who might ask what percentage of firearms are domestically made versus imported, NSSF production figures show six million firearms were made in the U.S. in 2019 and 3.3. million were imported. The NSSF notes:"



434 Million Firearms Made for Private Ownership Over Past 25 Years

On another forum, I ran the numbers up of how much in tax revenue the feds would instantly acquire on paper. It's a large number.

Mags alone is around $15 billion.

It's 200/mag right?

 

[not new guy]

That is one big-assed genie.

 

[SgtHal75]

lol, that's just the ones they know about.

Yup, plus all the ones older than 25 years. So I wonder what the numbers are from 1776 to 1996?