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$695M

Trafficked firearms are big business. Everytown estimates that between 2017 and 2023, gun dealers earned approximately $695 million from sales of trafficked firearms.

Nick Suplina, Marianna Mitchem, Chelsea Parsons, “The Supply Side of Violence: How Gun Dealers Fuel Firearm Trafficking,” Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, December 2, 2025, https://everytownresearch.org/report/how-gun-dealers-fuel-firearm-trafficking/.

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2x

Nearly twice as many Glocks were recovered at crime scenes in 2024 as guns made by the second-most common manufacturer.

50%

Of the over 1.7 million crime guns traced from 2019 to 2023, 50 percent were used in a crime within just three years of their initial retail sale.

1.27M

By the end of 2026, an estimated 1.27 million guns will have been illegally trafficked since 2017.

88M

An estimated 88 million guns were sold in the United States from 2020 to 2024—a 24 percent increase compared to the previous five years.

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