Posted on 08/24/2019 4:22:20 PM PDT by PROCON
U.S.-based gun makers produced over 8.6 million new firearms last year, with almost a quarter of those being 9mm pistols. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Initial gun production numbers are in from 2018, showing an increase from the previous year’s figures and the solid popularity of 9mm handguns.
According to the latest figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 8,669,259 new firearms of all sorts were produced last year. This is up from 8,327,792 released into commerce in 2017.
The largest single category of firearms produced in 2018 was in pistols chambered larger than .380ACP to 9mm, with 2,281,450 handguns logged. This is up significantly from 1,756,618 in the same category reported in 2017.
By further comparison, 11.49 million new firearms were produced in 2016 — a modern record — while just over 9 million were produced in both 2015 and 2014. Earlier in the century, domestic gun production numbers remained largely constant at between 3 to 4 million from 2000 to 2008 and then began surging upwards to the 2016 peak, coinciding with the administration of President Obama.
The latest information comes as part of the interim installment of the ATF’s Annual Firearms Manufacturers and Export Report. These reports, compiled from all licensed gun makers in the country large and small, are delayed a year due to the Trade Secrets Act. Because of this, the full 2018 data, broken down by manufacturers, will not be available until next year.
According to the full 2017 report, the top six domestic makers of 9mm pistols in the country by volume– not counting firearms that were imported from overseas– were Smith & Wesson (606,732 produced), Sig Sauer (368,264), Ruger (163,865), SCCY (150,235), Kimber (98,385) and Glock (94,665).
I agree, but due to nerve damage in my hands I have been relegated to using revolvers (I cannot load autos anymore). Pity there was not a Colt 1917 Revolver copy born amongst that group.
LOOK ABOUT “on the back tables” at any large gun show & seek out & buy a “shooter grade” (rather than MINT) Model of 1927 BRAZILIAN Military S&W version of the WWI-era New Service. = It’s “a GOODIE” & NOT $$$$$$$ like a wartime/post war Colt or S&W NEW SERVICE.
(I paid 225.oo for mine in 2015, from a NON-FFL vendor, who was selling off his private collection, due to old age, disability & nobody to leave his guns to. = Bob S________ said that he just wanted THE CASH to pay bills.)
Yours, TMN78247
TRUE. = My lady, who is 85# & 5 feet tall, shoots a Beretta Model 81 well, even with her “little girl’s hands”.
She wants me to buy her one too, while I’m buying my “tacklebox gun”.
You will be STUNNED about just how NICE that the little Beretta Model 81BB pistols are inside & 90% are “just OK” in exterior finish. = The Italian municipal police carried them a LOT but seldom fired them, except for twice a year qualification.
(NOT perfect finish is WHY I’m buying a “cheapie” & planning on stripping/refinishing it myself, using APPLIANCE PAINT in BLACK SEMI-GLOSS.= Appliance Paint is the TOUGHEST finish that I’ve ever found. - Once fully cured, sandpaper won’t remove it.)
Just my OPINIONS, TMN78247
Sig P210s are only available in 9mm, the P220 is available in 10mm.
Thanks I can not remember a lot of models other than they are the big size or not. I had a P-210 in .45. It was one of the few guns I made a good trade with.
Three mass shootings every day with no mention by fake news...
Looks ratty, but shoots like a champ and I run it with 15 round Mec-Gar mags.
How is Glock so low? For how load the fanboys are, you’d think Glock would be at least half the total.. If not more!
Just 94, 669 Glocks made ....... good combat tupperware !
Better ....
Bad Dog .... Baaaaad Dog !
A lot of people are doing 80% builds.
I'm making one of those Glock 19 80% builds right now.
Polymer 80 brand lower, and I can't remember who made the slide, but I got the entire kit for $399 with free shipping as a July 4th deal.
Bought it out of sheer curiosity, and it looked like a fun project.
thanks however the large shows are always about 4 to 8 hours drive from where I live.
WHERE in God’s Country are you??
You could also look on GUNBROKER & GUNS AMERICA, as my brother-of-the heart recently as found SEVERAL real bargains on those sites.
(Last week, he got a “Cowboy Six Shooter”, AKA: a NICE, though Colt factory repaired/refinished, with the receipt from July 1928, COLT’S PEACEMAKER in .44-40 FROM 1904 for what both of us regard as a “SCREAMING BARGAIN”, which he “picked up from” the FFL dealer today. = Neither of us can figure out WHY nobody but him bid on it.)
All 5 of his recent purchases are nice enough that he’s getting them all “lettered”.
Note: As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on the forum, he bought one (at least to me) Winchester “unique riot-gun”, which he paid “peanuts” for. = It has the stock & receiver of a Model 12 & the 21” barrel/front end” of a Model 1897.
On a pure “whim”, he had it “lettered” & we both were surprised to learn that the Model 12/97 IS original as sold by Winchester in 1934. = That “hybrid” is ONE of SIX shotguns that were ordered by/delivered to Mississippi Road Camp #4, on 09APR1934.
(Winchester & most other gunmakers were HUNGRY for sales during the depths of The Great Depression & evidently made a LOT of firearms up from “in-stock parts”, to sell “on the cheap” to various government agencies, like MS Prison Camp #4..)
Yours, TMN78247
Kimber - MIMber.
The CZ 75 and HiPower are the two most ergonomically designed semis of all time. 1911 comes in close behind. I shoot my P226 and Dan Wesson 1911 the most.
JMB never finished the HiPower.
The series. 70 in 38 super is a personal favorite.
500 bucks for one is kind of a bargain, but the super is kind of a sleeper in the market.
The .38Super shoots MUCH flatter than any normal loading of the .45ACP & the round as loaded by Buffalo Bore EXCEEDS any .45ACP loading in FPS & FPE by a pretty good margin. = That 147 grain JHP spreads out to about .85”. = GOOD STOPPER on 2-4 footed predators. Also the M1911 in .38Super shoots 10 without reloading.
(There is also a VERY expensive “facility security load” that will NOT exit a human adult’s chest but which hits HARD, penetrates about 6” & then fragments into what looks like #6 shot.= About 4.oo each.)
IF I ever have to shoot across the courtroom as a DUSM, I want to HIT/DISABLE the “active shooter”, with not more than 2 well-aimmed shots to center mass & certainly NOT hit anyone else..
Yours, TMN78247
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