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Update: 533 Million Privately Owned Firearms in the United States
AmmoLand ^
| May 27, 2025
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 06/02/2025 8:19:54 AM PDT by marktwain
There are about 533 million firearms in private hands in the United States of America in 2025. The current population is estimated at 343 million people. This gives a record number of 1.55 firearms for every person in the United States. The number of privately owned firearms in the United States is growing by 15-20 million firearms a year.
The number of firearms which are privately owned in the United States is not clear and obvious or easily measured. There has never been a registry of firearms for the United States. A national firearms registry is forbidden by law. There are partial state registration systems in a few states. Data on manufacture, importation, and exportation of firearms was not kept as a matter of record until after World War II.
Researchers Newton and Zimring pioneered the estimation of private firearms numbers in the United States. They researched the number of firearms manufactured, imported, and exported in the United States from 1899 through 1945 and estimated a total of 46.9 million modern firearms as of 1945. For the years 1946 to 1972, individual figures were calculated for each year. Shipments of firearms to the military were not included.
US Homicide Rate vs Firearms per Capita Gary Kleck, in his seminal work, Point Blank Guns and Violence in America, extended the work of Newton and Zimring through 1987, using data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF). As of 1987, the total was over 198 million.
This correspondent has used the ATF numbers from 1988 to 2023 to reach a figure of over 530 million firearms in the private stock in the USA in 2025.
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The latest numbers, calculated from the latest ATF release, updated through May of 2025.
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:19:54 AM PDT
by
marktwain
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:22:37 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: marktwain
Guns are like underwear. Most people don’t mention what they have.
Likely double that govt estimate.
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:23:34 AM PDT
by
lurk
(u)
To: marktwain
Guns are like underwear. Most people don’t mention what they have.
Likely double that govt estimate.
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:23:39 AM PDT
by
lurk
(u)
To: lurk
Guns are like underwear.Boxers or briefs????
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:24:55 AM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: marktwain
When the gov’t is afraid of you, you have freedom.
When you’re afraid of the gov’t, you have tyranny.
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:26:40 AM PDT
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: lurk
Guns are like underwear. Most people don’t mention what they have.
Surveys appear to underestimate both the number of gun owners and the number of guns. “Shy” gun owners may be a third of total gun owners.
The best surveys show about 420 million guns - a hundred million short of what has been produced and imported...
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:27:19 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: Billthedrill
I’m just thrilled to finally be slightly above average in *something*! 🤠
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:27:22 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: marktwain
I wonder if the count included these types of firearms:
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:30:35 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(It's morning in America. Again.)
To: marktwain
Come git em, Hoggboy
I double dog dare ya
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:31:32 AM PDT
by
digger48
(Mp)
To: marktwain
I wonder how many built on 80% lowers have been produced?
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:34:34 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
I wonder how many built on 80% lowers have been produced?
Many wonder the same thing. My best SWAG (Scientific Wild Ass Guess) is a couple of million.
To: marktwain
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:42:01 AM PDT
by
larrytown
(A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
To: marktwain
Firearms are tools.
Now do screwdrivers or wrenches.
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:43:02 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
To: marktwain
“There are about 533 million firearms in private hands in the United States of America in 2025.” I’d say that ain’t near enough.
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:56:37 AM PDT
by
kawhill
("If you ain't got nowheres to run from, you must not have no place to run to." Cormac McCarthy)
To: marktwain
1.55 per person huh? Damn, below average again!
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posted on
06/02/2025 8:58:17 AM PDT
by
Az Joe
(uired to.)
To: marktwain
Does this include knives, swords, slingshots, and slings?
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posted on
06/02/2025 9:06:40 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
To: marktwain
Are the estimated .55 fraction SIG P320's ?
Asking for a friend.
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posted on
06/02/2025 9:09:32 AM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
To: marktwain
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posted on
06/02/2025 9:09:35 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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