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From 1994 to 2023, gun ownership increased 28% in America. In 2023, about 16.7 million firearms were sold in the U.S. In the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5 million firearms were sold, averaging around 1.3 million per month. About 72% of gun owners say they own a gun primarily for protection. [3]
Location Firearms per 100 Region Subregion Population 2017 Civilian firearms Computation method Registered firearms Unregistered firearms Notes United States: 120.5 Americas North America 326,474,000 393,347,000 1 1,073,743 392,273,257 Est. [note 2] Falkland Islands: 62.1 Americas South America 3,000 2,000 2 1,705 295 Yemen: 52.8 Asia Western Asia
This is a list of US states by gun deaths and rates of violence. In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes. Gun deaths make up about half of all suicides, but over 80% of homicides. [5]
The nearly 40,000 Americans killed each year since 2016 by gun violence exceed the number of people killed by car accidents (39,000), despite the fact that in 2017 there were 221.7 million ...
The estimated total number of gun sales in Ohio from January to April 2024 was 198,721. There was, however, a slight decline in overall firearm sales within the state, showing a 4% percent ...
Party affects gun ownership. Political party is a strong predictor of gun ownership ‒ and getting stronger, Gallup data shows. As recently as 2012, 38% of Republicans and 22% of Democrats owned ...
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While personal safety tops the list of reasons why American gun owners say they own a firearm, 63% of US gun-related deaths are self-inflicted. Over 23,000 Americans died from self-inflicted ...