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Guns and their legal ownership have been heavy topics of discussion among Americans for decades. In 2021, 48,830 Americans lost their lives due to firearms. In 2023, America witnessed 656 mass...
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For much of the last four decades, rifles have been the best-selling firearm type in the United States. Based on domestic manufacturing data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and...
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Since its invention in 1831 by Samuel Colt of Hartford, Connecticut, the revolver has established itself as an iconic American firearm. Though revolvers have been all but replaced by modern...
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Over 40% of adults in the United States live in a household with at least one firearm, and, according to a recent Pew Research Center study, the vast majority of them have a gun for at least one of...
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Consumer demand for handguns is surging in the United States. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, American gunmakers produced nearly 21.4 million pistols and...
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The FBI conducted over 2.2 million firearm background checks in April alone. While background checks do not correspond one to one with gun sales, they remain the best proxy of gun sales, and if...
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Gun sales have been on the decline so far in 2024, at least based on the FBI’s firearm background checks figures. Those figures, however, may soon change as the “gun show loophole” is closed....
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Pistols, particularly semi-automatic handguns, have surged in popularity with American gun owners in recent years. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the number of...
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Every year in the United States, hundreds of thousands of firearms are stolen from private citizens. These include guns illegally taken from residential properties, motor vehicles, and directly from...
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Colt Firearms has been a major force in the design and manufacture of handguns. In the years 1850s to World War I, it was a dominating force in the production of guns. Colt was pivotal in...
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Gun ownership has been a constitutional right in the United States since 1791. Now, over two centuries later, firearms are a fixture in American culture — and in recent years a growing share of the...
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