Quote Originally Posted by def90 View Post
True but those aren't new guns on the market.. The 14 million is probably mostly new guns.
Yep was just about to post this. F t F sales would be guns already in civilian hands. Any new gun being sold will require a BGC unless it's being sold to Law Enforcement.

Of course, a lot of those BGC's were also "used" guns being sold by dealers and/or sold in states like CO where private transactions are illegal. So certainly not all of those 14 million were new.

My pull-it-out-of-my-4th-point-of-contact guess is that probably ~60% of those BGCs are on new guns. I'm sure there's someone in the Firearms Industry who can give a better estimate on what percentage of new guns are sold vs. "pre-owned" guns but 60% is my guess.

So that means maybe 8.5 million new guns in civilian hands.

The statistic that would be of more interest to me is: How many guns are being sold to people who have never owned guns before? I'd be curious to know that, even though I know there's no way to actually track that.