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

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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.

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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.

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1.27M

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

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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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