Number of imported firearms U.S. 2020 | Statista

In 2020, a total of 6,831,376 million firearms were imported to the United States. This is a significant increase from the previous year, when around 3.98 million firearms were imported to the United States.

Number of imported firearms to the United States from 1986 to 2020

Characteristic	Number of imported firearms
1986	701,000
1987	1,063,513
1988	1,276,268
1989	1,007,781
1990	843,809
1991	720,657
1992	2,846,710
1993	3,043,321
1994	1,880,902
1995	1,103,404
1996	881,578
1997	939,415
1998	999,810
1999	891,799
2000	1,096,782
2001	1,366,896
2002	1,629,237
2003	1,466,502
2004	1,910,859
2005	2,106,675
2006	2,432,522
2007	2,743,993
2008	2,606,386
2009	3,607,106
2010	2,839,947
2011	3,252,404
2012	4,844,590
2013	5,539,539
2014	3,625,268
2015	3,930,211
2016	5,137,771
2017	4,492,256
2018	4,305,851
2019	3,986,663
2020	6,831,376

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October 2021

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Survey time period

1986 to 2020

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Statistics prior to 1992 are for fiscal years; 1992 is a transition year with five quarters.

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