And that's not even counting all the unregistered handguns the Socialist Democrat blue city FELONS have tucked into the back of their baggy-@ss pants. ;)
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.
US Homicide Rate vs Firearms per Capita 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Cmon guys and gals, you’re not keeping up. My wife and I can’t carry the load forever!
I doubt they have the ability to accurately estimate the number of firearms produced before 1930 or so that are still around in personal collections. I have inherited a couple that don’t even have serial numbers. I don’t think serial numbers were even a requirement before about 1968, so I don’t even know how they would be traced to anyone.
When dirty, you can reverse them.
Seems low... Good.
The government should NOT know exactly how many arms we have.
No wonder that in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills.
The lies we have been told over the years...
1962 We ONLY want to register handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1964, We ONLY want to register ALL firearms, not ban them.
1968 We ONLY want to register all guns, and ban the import of foreign Saturday Night Specials, and 5-shot bolt action army surplus rifles! (they got the ban).
1970, We ONLY want to ban small American handguns. Rifles will not be affected!
1976 We ONLY want to ban ALL handguns! Rifles will not be affected!
1981, Actress Lee Grant on Good Morning America (ABC) screams...”THE NRA IS A RIFLE ORGANIZATION! THEY SHOULD GIVE UP THEIR HANDGUNS AND THEY CAN KEEP THEIR RIFLES!”
1984, they came for the rifles.
1994..When they thought they had banned “As-s-s-ault rifles they did not shut off the lights and go home. they immediately went after their next target, .50 cal single shot rifles “THAT CAN TAKE DOWN AN AIRPLANE!”
They will never be satisfied till they have an unarmed population.
Me as well.
And that's not even counting all the unregistered handguns the Socialist Democrat blue city FELONS have tucked into the back of their baggy-@ss pants. ;)
How many lost in boating accidents?
Dont know but I keep losing them so I have to keep buying new ones....
Very few gun owners own just one gun.
However, we are taught to beware the man who owns only one gun.
He might know how to use it!
1911s Steel is real.
If no registry exists, where does this report get the numbers? If from ATF forms, names and addresses are on them. If not, from where then? Dealers? What about trades, private sales, ghost guns, guns stolen by police brass from buyback programs...?
The article explains the numbers come from manufacturers, importers, and exporters reports to the ATF.
Results from the ATFE? Do they expect me to believe them? ;-)
I'm one of them. Mounted over my fireplace is my great grandfather's Belgium HENRI PIEPER Double Barrel Shotgun from the 1880's. The antique has twisted barrels, but I heard that such old guns can catastrophically rupture after shooting. As a weapon, the most I can do with it is whack some trespasser in the head...
I am not saying you should fire the double, but you probably could. You might even be able to find a replacement hammer for the right barrel.
For the trouble... You can purchase a state of the art Keltec KS7 Pump 12 gauge bullpup for under $400, on sale.
From Sportsman's Warehouse
That number needs to grow.
You never know when it might be “needed”.
They are okay.
But the difference between 45 ACP and 9 mm isn't as vast as American Patriot AR 5.65 NATO vs Bad guy 7.62 commie block peasant AKs are :) ....
Let the flame war begin !
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