Over 17 Million Guns Sold in 2022: Report
A new report reveals that at least 17 million firearms were sold in the United States in the year 2022, with sales remaining at a similar pace in 2023.
As Breitbart reports, the study from SafeHome.org shows that there were approximately 17.4 million gun purchases throughout the country in 2022. This data was compiled by examining the FBI’s data on National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks for firearm purchases. Every “long gun and handgun check was counted as 1.1 sales,” the report notes; an NICS check for multiple guns was counted as two sales.
Three states in particular saw over one million gun purchases each: California, Florida, and Texas, the latter of which saw the most sales of any single state. California had about 1,063,033 gun sales, while Florida had 1,304,362 and Texas had 1,452,990.
