Ammo.com conducted a new study on how many Americans own firearms and how many own them illegally. They found that gun ownership in America increased 28% from 1994 to 2023.
How Many Gun Owners Are in America? (2024 Statistics)
Report Highlights:
- Gun ownership in America increased 28% from 1994 to 2023
- It is estimated that there are 393 million civilian-owned firearms in the U.S.
- There are 6.06 million registered civilian firearms in America
- Estimates show that 82,880,000 people own at least one firearm in 2023
- Women’s firearm ownership increased by 177.8% in the past years
- Gun ownership increased more among Hispanics than any other demographic between 2017-2023 (33%)
- Gun ownership declined by 22% in the 18-29 age group over the past six years
- One out of every 20 adults in the U.S. purchased a firearm for the first time during the pandemic
As the political climate heats up surrounding gun control and legislation, more Americans are buying firearms today than six years ago. In the past twenty years, gun ownership has risen slightly among women and Hispanics while it has decreased among men.
I want a tactical nuclear weapon.
Much too late for the communists to confiscate our guns. WE WILL NOT COMPLY!
Sadly, while I was fishing at Crater Lake, all my weapons went overboard when my boat tipped over. I was so heart-broken that I forgot to report the loss.
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When you buy and own a weapon aren’t you sort of deputized as a 2nd Amendment militiaman? We just need to be well-regulated.
Shame on you for reading the Constitution as it was written! Don’t you know we could be living in the New Age of Enlightenment and Love if you gun nuts would just give them up?
Just like in China, Cuba, North Korea and all those other people’s paradises. Yet every abled bodied man in Switzerland has a fully automatic weapon in his home. Last I heard Switzerland wasn’t Chicago or Memphis.
“Since criminals don’t like to register their guns”,actually,no one likes to register their guns,and……,with good reason!
The left keeps scaring the public and the public buys more weapons not hard to figure. Our countries policies are insane and unstable, if they wanted people to give up firearms the US should be the model of stable countries.
It is funny how almost everything democrats do gives the opposite of the results they wanted.
—they are doing anti gun stuff = it results in more people buying more guns
— they defunded the police to reduce the number of blacks shot = it resulted in more blacks being shot
— they imposed sanctions on Russia to make it weaker = it resulted in Russia being just as strong – if not stronger – and in both Europe and North America suffering from inflation and shortages and thus being weaker.
— they persecute Trump to make him go away = it resulted in Trump being more popular than ever
I wonder how “they” (i.e. American’s enemies) will provide arms for our newcomers.
I believe the arms are here already. In shipping containers. If you had a militant plan would you wait for Trump to return? Maybe not, Uncle Joe and his crew look like easy pickens.
I have never owned a gun. Currently I live and work in Australia.
I stayed in some homes in Switzerland and in each they had military grade weapons. Don’t think that country is known for gun violence.
Today I believe that every American family should be trained in the use of both long guns and hand guns and should have the same readily available in the home. For many I believe they should have concealed carry permits and should carry.
Peter? It’s my understanding that Australia gave up gun ownership around 1995. How did that work out? or Did it?
Australia isn’t being invaded. Yet.
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