Americans bought 39 million guns in 2021. First year in the last 20 that it did not increase over the previous year, but considering 2020 was a RECORD year with 39,695,315 that's not that surprising. 38.9 million sold in 2021.
What surprises me is the breakdown by state with Illinois purchasing 8,036,858 guns in 2021 (which is more than 20% of all the US guns purchased) with only about 8.6 million persons over 21 years old. Roughly 197 million Americans over age 21, so Illinois' roughly 4 percent of the US +21 population purchased 20% of all US guns sold in 2021
Prolly cause there is so much hunting going on in Illinois.
Top 6 states in 2021:
Illinois 8,036,858
Kentucky 3,473,035
Texas 1,794,401
Indiana 1,698,198
California 1,351,076
PA 1,278,678
Texas is not surprising based on population, shear size, and...well, it's Texas.
California...well based on 23+ million of them over 21 then 1.3m guns is not so much...so less then 6% of the 21+ bought guns
whereas, Illinois is roughly 94% of 21+ population bought guns in 2021