The latest report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released earlier this week shows that the average American’s appetite for a new firearm remains unsatiated. Over the last 20 years, March background checks (groomed by the NSSF to measure just those related to firearms purchases) have doubled, from about 600,000 in 2004 to over 1.4 million last month. That’s four times the rate of growth of the country’s population.
Over the last decade Americans have been buying more than one million new firearms a month, adding an estimated 120 million new firearms to their already sizeable arsenal over that period. According to AmericanGunFacts.com , Americans owned an estimated 400 million firearms in 2017. With the addition of new firearms, that estimate now likely exceeds 500 million.
Some have expressed concern that Americans’ appetite might be slowing a bit, as the March numbers were lower than a […]
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