https://www.concealedcarry.com...rica-surprise-stats/

https://www.concealedcarry.com...rica-surprise-stats/

I treat these statistics as pure speculation. ATF and NSSF know the number of new firearms sold in the country, there is no way to get an accurate read on the distribution. Heck, most polls on this forum go unanswered with a silly reference to boating accidents. Why would you expect honest answers from this poll?

kinda dumb when they show zero Asians owning guns in 2017, and like 8% in 2023, yet they claim that Hispanics had the largest growth. Seems to me that Asians had infinite growth according to their chart.

The statement about "only" 6.06 Million registered firearms, followed by some shit about "doesn't mandate registration" made me realize just how stupid this poll data is.

I feel inadequate now.
I don't own a Net Gun.


Net Gun

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Originally posted by radioman:
kinda dumb when they show zero Asians owning guns in 2017, and like 8% in 2023, yet they claim that Hispanics had the largest growth. Seems to me that Asians had infinite growth according to their chart.

Having been apart of a local firearms training company and certifying concealed carry, new firearm ownership amongst Asians exploded particularly between 2020-2023 in California. The number of small business robberies, home invasions and physical assaults that directly targeted Asians spurred many to take-up arms, seek training and learn how to carry legally. The class numbers we had don't lie, and was reflected by other training companies & retailers.

I'm gonna guess no koreans responded to the survey.

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Originally posted by konata88:
I'm gonna guess no koreans responded to the survey.

They were on the roof with their rifles watching the poll takers.

Here are some other numbers that are worth looking at as well NICS background check data:

https://www.fbi.gov/file-repos..._month_year.pdf/view

The 2024 data is showing an average of around 2.3-2.4 million background checks. No demographics, but it helps give you an idea of how much of the gun owning population might be participating in this survey. So, we don’t know how many checks were approved or denied (although I think that data is in a different report), but around 28-30 million NICS checks last year for at least one gun each. Some of those will be denials, some will be transfers between gun owners, some will have more than one gun, and some will be the same person at different times. Still, we know close to 30 million guns tried to legally leave FFL’s last year alone.

That doesn’t contradict anything I. The OP’s graph, but a transfer rate of 30 million per year does make you wonder how only 82 million Americans own guns. I know a lot of us have multiple guns, but 30 million a year and only 82 million that own them at all, especially since they tend to be very durable and don’t fail or become unusable very often, seems suspect.

Another fun one is the firearms commerce report from the ATF:

https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/data-statistics

Sadly, they don’t have the nice summary for the past few years up yet, but in their most recent report they showed around 7 million new firearms made in the USA (300k were exported) in 2019 plus another 4 million imported from other countries. So 11 million new guns entered the market in 2019. Combined with the much higher number of background checks, it looks like there is a very brisk trade in used guns. Maybe that helps explain the 82 million owners estimate is 2/3 of transaction toons are just us owners selling each other used guns through FFLs!

I’m not sure I have a real point here. I just wanted to add some more sources for data that people could check out if interested.

- Bret