![]() ![]() The group derives its tally from gun registration figures, law enforcement and manufacturing data, published studies, and academic surveys of gun owners. ![]() That accounts for nearly half the world’s firearms, and makes America the most armed country on Earth. An additional 4.5 million guns are held by the military, and law enforcement agencies have another 1.2 million, for a total of 398.7 million guns. The organization’s most recent report, released in 2018, estimates that there are upward of 393 million civilian guns in circulation in the U.S. While there is no official (read: government) count of how many guns Americans own, the Small Arms Survey, a research project at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, provides one of the best available numbers. We hear a lot about how many new guns are sold each year, but how many guns pass out of circulation per year, through loss, government destruction, or breakage? Or, even though guns last indefinitely if maintained perfectly, what is the average statistical life of each gun when it enters circulation?įirst, let’s start by looking at the number of guns. That’s at the crux of a query submitted by a reader in Houston, professor Dru Stevenson of South Texas College of Law, who asks: ![]() But how many guns leave circulation each year? America has more guns than any other country - and its residents keep buying them, with sales hitting record highs in 2020. ![]()
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