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February 7, 2019, 11:05 PM | #1 |
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Most popular handguns in the U.S. by Sales
Well sorta, I just looked at pistols and left revolvers out. The picture is quite different if you look at wheelguns.
Turns out there is no hard and fast info available from manufacturers so getting an accurate picture is not exactly possible. So pinning the exact figures down is not possible. But there are various ways to gather the trends. A popular way is to gather the monthly figures that GunBroker puts out on their bestsellers list. CBS did that and correlated it with the ATFs numbers. I can't say these are hecka accurate. But probably not real far off. Lightweight, easy to conceal and usually inexpensive leads the way. CBS on 2016... https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/mos...ns-in-america/ #5 Glock 19 #4 Sig P938 #3 Springfields XDs #2 Ruger LCP #1 S&W M&P Shield 2017 According to Gunbroker https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/...s-of-2017.aspx #5 Kel-Tec PMR-30 and Sig P320 (tie) #4 Glock 19 #3 Sig P938 #2 M&P 9 Shield #1 Ruger LCP 2018 According to Gun Broker https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/...s-of-2018.aspx #5 Ruger LCP #4 Sig P320 #3 M&P 9 Shield #2 Kel-Tec PMR-30 #1 Sig P365 Nitron Micro-Compact There are other sources as well. https://www.gungenius.com/top-selling tipoc
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February 8, 2019, 08:50 AM | #2 |
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Glock 19 doesn't surprise me, but I'd have thought the G26 would be right up in there as well ...
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February 8, 2019, 09:36 AM | #3 |
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PMR30? Really? I find that really hard to believe. I don't even see them in most gun shops.
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February 8, 2019, 11:56 AM | #5 |
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The PMR-30 surprises me as well. Novelty factor? Most of the info comes from Gunbroker so maybe some dealer to dealer quirky thing going on after it's introduction.
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February 8, 2019, 11:10 PM | #6 |
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So far the only PMR30 on our range (about 1000 members) is mine. I haven't been to a show for a couple of years so I can't say if they're still fairly scarce (<5) there. I guess they might be considered inexpensive 'hand cannons' for newbies wanting major muzzle blast with minimum expenditure and recoil. IDK, is there some social media thing fueling the demand? Think modern version of S&W29 after Dirty Harry came out.
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February 8, 2019, 11:57 PM | #7 |
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All of the links got their data from gunbroker. Anyone who thinks the PMR-30 is the number 2 best selling gun doesn’t know much about firearms sales.
The Uberti 1873 is the best selling revolver! yeah right... |
February 9, 2019, 12:49 AM | #8 |
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I think one possible reason for the presumed high sales numbers for the PMR30 could be pent up desire. How long ago were they first announced? As I recall about eight years ago. Yet for most of the time since they have been very hard to find, and prices were the $500 MSRP and more. In the last couple years they have been showing up with regularity, and the price when I bought mine was down to $300.
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February 9, 2019, 02:07 AM | #9 |
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I severely doubt the PMR 30 is #2, but IF the PMR-30 is even in the top 5 of most popular/best selling handguns in the US, then the CP33 that's coming out is going to beat it by several factors and possibly be the #1 selling pistol in the US.
I know I'm not alone when I say I've been waiting for years for a huge capacity .22 LR semi pistol and given how cheap LR is to Magnum, the CP33 is going to hurt sales of the PMR. People love .22 LR, it's too cheap not to. I can see why Glock churned out the 43x and 48 now, Sig's 365 clearly took a chunk of sales from Glock. OP, could you include revolvers too so we can check their numbers out? I'm pretty sure I know which is gonna be #1 or #2 each year for revolvers.
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Also didn't help .22 Mag took a very long time to become easily available again. So after years of inventory building up, no .22 Mag, prices had to go down to sell inventory and it happened about the same time the ammo became more available. Actually makes sense now why they'd be selling so well if they in fact are.
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OK, revolvers.
The only source I see easily for this is GunBroker. Each month they publish their most popular guns sold by volume on their site and then compile that at the end of the year. Gun Genius then takes that and puts it up on their site. From what I've seen that's one of the few places that does that. Obviously that method has weaknesses and limitations but that's what we have it seems. So... 2015 1. Taurus 85 2. Ruger SP101 3. Ruger GP100 4. Ruger Blackhawk 5. S&W 629 6. Ruger LCR 7. S&W 686 Plus 8. S&W 686 9. Ruger Vaquero 10. Taurus Judge 2016 1. Taurus 85 2. Ruger LCR 3. Ruger GP100 4. Ruger Blackhawk 5. S&W 629 6. Ruger SP101 7. Ruger Vaquero 8. S&W 686 Plus 9. Ruger Super Blackhawk 10. Taurus 605 2017 1. Taurus 85 2. Ruger LCR 3. Kimber K6 Stainless 4. S&W 629 5. Ruger Blackhawk 6. Ruger GP 100 7. S&W 642 8. Taurus 605 9. Ruger Vaquero 10. Ruger SP101 2018 1. Ruger GP 100 2. Heritage Arms Rough Rider 3. S&W 642 4. Taurus Judge 5. S&W 629 6. Ruger LCR 7. Taurus 85 8. Ruger SP 101 9. Uberti 1873 10 Ruger Blackhawk Source: https://www.gungenius.com/top-sellin...-December2018# tipoc
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February 9, 2019, 11:58 AM | #12 |
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Another source, CBS News has these for 2016:
5. Ruger Blackhawk 4. Ruger LCR 3. S&W 629 2. Taurus 85 1. Heritage Arms Rough Rider https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/mos...in-america/25/ tipoc
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February 9, 2019, 12:13 PM | #13 | |
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The financial site, The Motley Fool, lists these under "handguns" for 2016
4. Tie between Glock 43 and Springfield XDs 3. Sig 938 2. Glock 19 and the S&W M&P Shield 9 1. Ruger LCP https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/...ll-have-1.aspx Quote:
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Yikes, I get the LCP is keen to carry but geez terrible to shoot...cheap, I guess. Aren’t gonna put 2000 rounds thru it anytime soon, unless your last name is de Sade.
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February 9, 2019, 06:58 PM | #16 |
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Pmr 30
$300 for a pmr 30 is a wildly good price. The least expensive that I have seen in the last month is $379. Most, though, are in the $395 - $440 range.
It is a neat gun....easy to shoot and reliable ( mine is in any case)
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The new Taurus Spectrum may take some sales from the LCP, but that new Taurus 1 year warranty doesn't give me much confidence when you consider the pocket .380's tend to have something break after enough shooting. About the only gun I see that can give the LCP a run is Kel Tec's P32, mainly because it's lower recoiling and can be bought for $150 online. The problem is it has the old style long, terrible Kel Tec DA trigger. It doesn't surprise me tho that the LCP is #1, I own two of them and may be getting the LCP II in the future.
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I do know that the S&W SD9 VE is reported to be the most common pistol found is police evidence storage rooms. It’s a highly reliable fake Glock. I’ve even heard that Glock took them to court over this and was successful.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the availability of 22rf ammunition played a role in the appearance of the pmr-30 and the HRR on those lists.
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The PMR-30 is not popular around here. Several guys bought them and had nothing but trouble with them. I can't see how they would be top seller anywhere. They sell a ton of Heritage SA 22s and Ruger LCPs. That's all I can put my finger on. They sell a lot of low end plastic 380s but there are so many of them it's hard to keep track. It makes sense to me that there is more low end pistols sold. Especially in SD pistols, there is a lot of 1st time buyers that are in the market and don't want to spend anymore than necessary.
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For as much grief as Taurus gets around here, they sure seem to sell the Model 85.
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Cheap and easy....... Go figure. And they are the same people who scoff because I carry a fullsize Glock.
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February 11, 2019, 12:45 PM | #25 |
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^ Not really, it's been popular since it was first introduced. Back before I was a gunaholic, people who were casual gun owners were watching videos of the Judge and all the different ammo it shot and what it did to watermelons, so it got an instant cool factor put on it.
And it's not expensive and it's that "pocket shotgun" that everybody wants for some reason. I've felt for a while the Public Defender is the best of the Judge line and it's also not terrible for conceal carry like the 3" Judges are.
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