U.S. number of imported firearms 1986-2020

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 5, 2024
In 2020, a total of 6,831,376 million firearms were imported to the United States. This is a significant increase from the previous year, when around 3.98 million firearms were imported to the United States.

Number of imported firearms to the United States from 1986 to 2020

CharacteristicNumber of imported firearms
1986 701,000
1987 1,063,513
1988 1,276,268
1989 1,007,781
1990 843,809
1991 720,657
1992 2,846,710
1993 3,043,321
1994 1,880,902
1995 1,103,404
1996 881,578
1997 939,415
1998 999,810
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Release date

October 2021

Region

United States

Survey time period

1986 to 2020

Supplementary notes

Statistics prior to 1992 are for fiscal years; 1992 is a transition year with five quarters.

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