Top Guns: Americans Purchased These Firearms The Most In 2022

Nation and State ^ | 02/21/2023 | Tyler Durden

[SeekAndFind]

Post-Covid, firearm sales at the retail level soared to record levels. According to National Shooting Sports Foundation, the 2022 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) totaled 16.4 million. While NICS checks aren't related to actual firearms sales, it's a proxy for gun demand.

A new monthly report from GunGenius, which uses data from Gunbroker, reveals the top-selling firearms sold online in 2022:

1. SIG Sauer P320 semi-automatic pistol
2. Remington 700 bolt-action rifle
3. Sig Sauer P365 pistol

Here are the top-selling handguns from last year.

Here are the top-selling rifles.

And top top-selling shotguns.

Also, the top gunmakers last year.

We have covered soaring NICS checks in the last few years but have yet to shine a light on what Americans have been panic-buying. This report offers some insight into buying trends.

[Nervous Tick]

>> We have ... yet to shine a light on what Americans have been panic-buying.

I don’t see this as “panic buying”. Frankly, these nearly all look like reasonable choices for anyone acquiring a firearm, whether it’s their first or their tenth. (If it’s your twentieth, you already have ten representatives from this group. :-) )

[Equine1952]

I dislike the term “panic buying”. With the current crime wave people may have decided to take care of themselves. IMO

[Equine1952]

True. Guilty as charged.

[dpetty121263]

Never understood why people still buy Ruger Mini 14’s as they are insanely priced and pretty inaccurate. Many videos out there calling it the gun that will not die.

[dpetty121263]

I bought 5 in the last 3 weeks, in January 3 and in December 3, broke my 1 gun a month rule..

[Repeal The 17th]

I own a few of those...

Thinking about getting a 45/70...
Anybody got any suggestions?

[TigersEye]

The DemonRats have been pushing gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• Rounds of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

Could it be? More?

• July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016

More Americans buy more guns...

• October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016

We just love guns...

• Black Friday posts new single day record for gun checks at more than 200,000 Nov. 26, 2017

Buy a gun, you'll be in Hogg Heaven!

• 'Yuge' March for estimated gun sales April 3, 2018
  Applications submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System exceeded 2.7 million last month
  —
  the busiest March on record and the third highest ranking month since the FBI began keeping track in 1998.

Another month, another record!

• April Sets Gun Sales Record May 7, 2018
  The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) ran 2,233,213 checks in April, according to an FBI document.
  That's nearly 90,000 more checks than the previous April record set in 2016.
  It also represents the second month in a row to set a record with March seeing 2,767,699 checks.

• NRA is back, ‘highest ever’ membership!..... April 4, 2019

Will the record breaking ever stop?

• April 2019 National Instant Background Check (NICS) Number is new Record May 15, 2019

Looks like it will never stop.

• In Year Of Impeachment More Guns Were Bought Than Any Other Time in US History 2/18/2020

It will never stop. :)

• Biden’s COVID Relief Checks Help Spur Another Record Month of AR-15 Sales April 1 2021

Gun sales records AGAIN!

• New Study Delivers a Kill Shot to Another Anti-Gun Narrative ... during the COVID pandemic. Some nine million Americans became new gun owners.

Did somebody say "Boom?"

• Gun Boom: FBI Ran 187,585 Background Checks on Black Friday Alone 687,788 NICS checks during the entire week 11/29/2021

Reaffirming what we all know to be right.

• Supreme Court makes 'momentous' Second Amendment ruling (video 14:24) Jun 23, 2022 - New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen

If we buy anymore guns the continent might flip over.

• 37 Months Straight: America Is Buying 1 Million Guns A Month 19fortyfive.com 9/2/2022

• Top Guns: Americans Purchased These Firearms The Most In 2022 2/21/2023
  According to National Shooting Sports Foundation, the 2022 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) totaled 16.4 million.

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMONRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[smokingfrog]

The newer ones have better accuracy & they don’t have all those “assault weapon” features that would make them illegal in some places.

[Disambiguator]

Interesting that three of the top four shotguns are either Mossberg 500s or some variation thereof.

[Nervous Tick]

Wow! Formidable display of fact, there. Thank you for that.

[TigersEye]

Well, thank you!

As you can see by the dates I started quite a while ago. I saw a lot of defeatest talk about losing our guns and wanted to counter it with some positive info. I am as concerned as anyone about gun control and have been since the ‘80s but it was getting to be a doomsday mentality around here back then.

The gun grabbers are going to need hundreds of miles of tractor trailers to load up all of our firearms. Too bad they wrecked the supply chain, those trucks will be hard to come by. :)

[dfwgator]

All they have to do is stop the flow of bullets. Then guns become an expensive paperweight.

[TigersEye]

I wonder how many presses, cases, cans of powder, bullets, primers and cases of ready-made are out there in workshops, garages, barns etc.?

I have enough for a few thousand rounds that I’ve never touched.
I have known several other guys who had a lot more than I do.
None of us were ever really into loading but we bought and stashed the stuff.

And then there’s the guys who are serious.

[Organic Panic]

AND the best news is the government is forbidden from keeping records of who buys and owns what....

Yeah. We can trust them.

[doorgunner69]

Mine was a male-kine barbie doll, so does not come under a name on this list.

And heck, got more than I can shoot on a regular basis as it is.

[rellic]

“Interesting that three of the top four shotguns are either Mossberg 500s or some variation thereof.”
I gave my Mossberg 88 as a gift to a close family member.
He could not buy any as they were all back ordered.
My shotguns are a pre WWI Winchester, a 50’s Browning auto5
and a custom Baretta O/U.
You can’t quality like that today for a decent price
Mossberg is high quality and affordable, I tried for years to get the Marinized 500 for my boat and they were
always sold out for the next few years.

[MHGinTN]

I believe the Maverick 88 in 20 gauge is the best home defense tool. If you go for the 88 in 12 gauge get the opsol and run the mini shells through it.

[MHGinTN]

I have loaders for 12 and 20 shotgun shells. When I load I use #2 buck.

[WinMod70]

Maybe too early for my brain but I’m having trouble making sense of the lists. How does the Rem. 700 make #2 overall but only #8 on the rifle list?