{"id":94172,"date":"2020-01-08T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=94172"},"modified":"2020-01-08T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:01:57","slug":"americans-bought-13-9-million-firearms-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=94172","title":{"rendered":"Americans Bought 13.9 Million Firearms in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nby Guy J. Sagi<\/strong><\/p>\n

The number of NICS background checks conducted by the FBI in 2019 came in at 28,369,750, the highest mark since the agency began the program in 1998. After an adjustment for the volume of concealed-carry permit applications, renewals and other administrative use of the system, Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates the figure reflects total firearm sales of 13.9 million firearms last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe industry ended the 2019 year with sales of about 100,000 more units than for the whole of 2018 (13.9 vs. 13.8 million units),\u201d SAAF Chief Economist Jurgen Brauer explained in a press release this week. \u201cWhile unit sales during 2020, being a U.S. presidential election year, may increase again (even absent politics, we estimate to about 14.4 million units), it is unlikely that the industry will return to its 2016 sales high of 16.6 million units.\u201d<\/p>\n

Increases in handgun sales are playing a critical role in the market\u2019s improvement. \u201cOne trend that will continue, however, is of the U.S. as a \u2018handgun nation,\u2019\u201d Brauer said. \u201cSince 2014, annual handgun unit sales have handily outpaced annual long-gun unit sales in 2019 by nearly 2.3 million units.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nearly 400 million firearms in the US, and somewhere between 8 and 15 BILLION rounds of ammo.<\/p>\n

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Refs: American Rifleman<\/a>, Wiki<\/a>, Quora<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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