Guns and Hunting
Guns and Hunting Articles
The United States is the largest consumer market for firearms in the world, and that market is largely dominated by pistols. Pistols — a specific category of handguns that excludes revolvers —...
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Our nation’s history of firearm ownership began with the Second Amendment in 1791. This infamous and often cited amendment guarantees the right to bear arms. Many decades passed before major...
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Handguns are a category of firearms that includes both semi-automatic pistols and revolvers — and over the last decade, handguns have surged in popularity. In 2023 alone, Americans bought an...
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Widely carried by American law enforcement for much of the 20th century, revolvers have been all but replaced in professional circles by semi-automatic pistols in recent decades. Law enforcement’s...
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Estimates as to the total number of firearms in circulation in the United States range from about 392 million to over 500 million. Even assuming the low-end estimate, a report from the Geneva-based...
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Since hitting a multi-decade high of 15.9 million in 2021, the number of licensed hunters in the United States has ticked down slightly. As of 2023, the latest year of available data from the U.S....
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One of only a handful of countries where gun ownership is a constitutional right, and the only country home to more firearms than people, the United States has a gun culture unlike any anywhere else...
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