The article highlights the staggering gun culture in America, where there are more guns than residents, resulting in significant gun violence rates. With gun sales on the rise and manufacturing ramping up, the U.S. has seen 287.9 million firearms sold since 1986, predominantly from domestic sources. The demand surge reflects changing consumer preferences and supportive regulations for gun ownership. The alarming contrast between high gun ownership and elevated gun death rates, 18 times that of other developed nations, emphasizes the urgent need for evaluating America’s gun policies.
In fact, the rate of deaths from gun violence in America is 18 times higher than the average for other developed countries.
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.
Of the 287.9 million firearms estimated to have been sold in the U.S. since 1986, more than two-thirds were manufactured domestically.
Rising demand has likely been driven in part by changes in consumer preferences and an increasingly pro-gun regulatory environment.
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