Guns in America: A Statistical Look. By ABC News. December 11, 2012, 10:11 PM. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2012— -- 2012 has been a record setting year for gun sales. ... obliterating any previous ...

Flavor Flav, known for his outspoken activism, is taking a firm stand against firearms, calling for a total ban on guns in a ...

How dangerous people get their guns in America. By Philip Cook. ... (assuming patterns of criminal gun use remain constant) the total number of transactions of concern is 250,000 per year. ...

Kentucky's figure hit 421,790, or just over 10% of the national total. Its population is only 1.3% of the U.S. number. At the current pace, gun sales in America will reach almost 50 million this year.

Nationally, gun violence within the AAPI community is significantly lower than the average, with the community accounting for about 7% of the overall U.S. population but just 2% of total gun deaths.

Six States Cranked Out 5 Million Guns Last Year—Half of America’s Total in Just 12% of the Country. LOREN ELLIOTT / AFP via Getty Images. Sam Stebbins. Published: May 9, 2025 8:28 am.

A new academic study found that ownership of half of the estimated 265 million firearms in America is concentrated in the hands of three percent of the population. David Emery Published Sept. 20, 2016 ...

The number of guns in America has more than doubled since 1968. But the US population has nowhere near doubled its 1968 population (it was 201 million, and we’re currently estimated to be at 332 ...

Additionally, gun rights advocates maintain that semi-automatic firearms' principal purpose is not for violence, signaling the weapon’s marginal influence in total gun deaths.

Shotguns exported to U.S. from Taiwan, 2010-2023: 1,007 (0.01% of all imported shotguns) Total firearms exported to U.S. from Taiwan, 2010-2023: 12,451 (8.1% shotguns) Gunmakers operating in ...

For a start, America’s actual gun-law history collides with its gun mythology: that guns were widely carried and largely unregulated until the rise of the regulatory state in the 20th century.