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Established in 1999, GunBroker.com is one of the world's largest online marketplace for firearms. [2] GunBroker.com was founded by Steven F. Urvan after eBay started restricting gun sales. [3][4] Urvan ran the company until it was acquired by Ammo, Inc in 2021. [5] At the closing of merger, it had $60 million in revenue and 6 million registered ...
The SafeHomes.org analysis found that nearly 5.5 million firearms were purchased in the U.S. by April 2024, with Texas, California and Florida leading the way in gun sales overall. In Texas, 1 ...
The 2008–2016 United States ammunition shortage was a shortage of civilian small arms ammunition in the United States that started in late 2008, [1] and continued through most or all of 2010, with an additional shortage beginning in December 2012 and continuing throughout 2013. The 2008 election of President Barack Obama triggered increased ...
American civilians own more guns "than those held by civilians in the other top 25 countries combined." [14] [attribution needed] In 2018 it was estimated that U.S. civilians own 393 million firearms, [15] and that 40% to 42% of the households in the country have at least one gun. However, record gun sales followed in the following years.
Rank: 1 Percent Change in Gun Sales: 26.8% Kentucky has had by far the biggest increase in gun sales this year, with 443,345 more background checks in the first half of 2022 than in the first half ...
As the United States grapples with continued gun violence, legislation to improve responsible gun ownership continues to move slowly. GOBankingRates took a look at the how gun sales have changed ...
On October 11, 2017, ten days after a mass shooting in Las Vegas killed 58 people, a Politico / Morning Consult poll was released. It found that 64% of Americans support stricter gun laws, while 29% opposed them. Support was higher among Democrats (83%) than among independents (58%) and Republicans (49%).
Gun death rates are consistently higher in rural areas than in big cities, two decades of data show. From 2011 to 2020, the most rural counties in the U.S. had a 37% higher rate of gun deaths per ...