There are 20 million AR-style weapons in circulation in the US, according to the NSSF. They're part of a total 393 million guns owned by US civilians, more than the American population.
, signed by then-President Bill Clinton, only applied to assault weapons manufactured after the law was enacted.
During the 10-year ban, many AR-style weapons were still legally used because they could be heavily modified so they wouldn't fall under the bill, and the number of such rifles in circulation stayed the same, according to the AP. After the ban expired in 2004, the net import and manufacturing of AR-15 style weapons jumped from 314,000 that year to more than 1 million in 2009, according to the latestThe production rate has consistently stayed above 1 million per year since 2012, and surpassed 2.2 million rifles per year in 2013 and 2016.
An average of 4.14 million guns were manufactured every year between 1990 and 1999. And an average of 3.7 million were manufactured annually between 2000 and 2009, according to theUS consumers own around 393 million firearms, both legal and illegal, according to 2018 data from the
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