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Originally Posted by 44 AMP
If you are looking for the total number of NEW guns sold in the US in 2009, good luck. You'd need all the gun maker's production numbers, plus all the importers numbers, minus the number of 2009 production guns they still had in unsold inventory as of Dec 31st 2009.
How anyone could get those numbers, even the govt, is beyond me. IT would require a serious research effort, along with some way of compelling makers, dealers and importers to release that infomation to you.
Good Luck.
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IF you were the govt, it wouldn't be hard at all. Require US manufacturers to submit the number of guns sold to US distributors, subtract the guns those distributors exported, add the number of guns imported into the US to distributors, and you have the total number "new" guns added into the wholesale sales channel.
Perhaps they don't all sell in that year, but you would know how many "new" guns were produced/imported in a certain year for the US sales channel.
You'll never know the number of "horse trades", inheritances, and private sales, of course.