How many civilian-owned firearms are there in the United States?
USA hard Data from 2018
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The answer
393,000,000 firearms
Roughly 393M.
The Small Arms Survey estimated about 393 million civilian-held firearms in the U.S. — more guns than people. The country has roughly 4% of the world population and something close to 40% of the world civilian firearms. It is an estimate rather than a count: there is no national firearms registry.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Small Arms Survey |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2018 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | firearms |
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