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Federal prosecutors in Chicago are less likely than those in most other jurisdictions — including Los Angeles and New York — to approve gun charges. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is taking up some of those rejected cases.

We've updated this popular tip sheet, which briefs journalists on basic gun facts and terminology. We created it to help newsrooms avoid some of the most common errors in news stories about firearms, especially AR-15-style rifles.

Guns and ammunition are a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States. According to government data, gunmakers produced over 13.3 million firearms domestically in 2022. In addition to guns manufactured within the U.S., millions more are imported into the country from abroad each year. (Here is a look at the 10 countries Americans buy the […]

The United States is the world’s largest civilian market for firearms – and consumer demand is growing. Over 250 million new firearms were manufactured in, or imported to, the U.S. between 1986 and 2019 – and according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, over half of them hit the market in the […]

Many of the world’s largest firearm companies – including Sturm, Ruger & Co., Remington Outdoor, and Smith & Wesson – are located in the United States. However, the spike in gun sales also led to an influx of firearms from overseas. The U.S. imported over 6.8 million guns in 2020, up 71% from the previous […]

A recent Gallup poll showed that 46% of Americans have a gun somewhere in their home, and 33% personally own a firearm. The prevalence of firearms in the United States is not a recent development, and gun manufacturers have made a fortune. Licensed gunmakers manufactured more than 11 million weapons in 2020, more than double […]

Americans buy a lot of firearms. The American gun and ammunition market generates more than $70 billion in economic output in the U.S., according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF estimates that 16.4 million guns were sold in America last year alone. That actually represents a significant decrease from the 18.5 million sold […]

Despite American production ranging from 5.5 million to 11.5 million firearms each year in the past decade, the U.S. also imports millions of guns each year. And in recent decades, handguns have made up the bulk of firearms imported to the U.S. from overseas. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, of […]

Many of the world’s largest firearm companies – including Sturm, Ruger & Co., Remington Outdoor, and Smith & Wesson – are located in the United States. However, the spike in gun sales also led to an influx of firearms from overseas. The U.S. imported over 6.8 million guns in 2020, up 71% from the previous […]