In the last five years alone, Americans bought nearly 70 million firearms - 13 million more than in the entire first decade of the 2000s, and 17 million more than in the 1990s.
The United States is the largest consumer market for firearms by a wide margin. To meet demand - which has hit unprecedented highs in recent years - many of the world's largest gunmakers have manufacturing operations in the United States.
Rising demand has likely been driven in part by changes in consumer preferences and an increasingly pro-gun regulatory environment.
Of the 287.9 million firearms estimated to have been sold in the U.S. since 1986, more than two-thirds were manufactured domestically - and over half were sold in 2010 or later.
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