From: [REDACTED] at [hprnd.rose.hp.com] (Steve Kao)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: A probable FAQ
Date: 25 Oct 1993 21:36:02 GMT

RKBA.008 - Annual firearm manufacture in the United States
           Version 1.1 (last changed on 90/04/25 at 23:38:32)

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CJS87 has data for firearms manufacture from 1977 through 1984. The starting 
and ending years are consistent with the intermediate years (although 1980 and 
1981 saw a total of 5.6 and 5.7 million guns total). These figures do NOT 
include firearms manufactured for the military.

1977 Total guns ........... 4,904,422
         Total handguns ... 1,879,645
             Pistols ......   452,667
             Revolvers .... 1,426,978
         Total long guns .. 3,024,777
             Rifles ....... 1,839,925
             Shotguns ..... 1,184,852

1984 Total guns ........... 4,651,477
         Total handguns ... 1,679,709
             Pistols ......   752,919
             Revolver .....   926,790
         Total long guns .. 2,966,838
             Rifles ....... 1,106,761
             Shotguns ..... 1,860,077
             Machine guns .     4,930

TIME magazine claimed that AK47S imports were 4,000 in 185-1986, and 40,000 in 
1988. Imports of that type of foreign made semiautomatic rifle were stopped in 
early 1989.

That means that imports of AK47S style rifles were about 2% (two percent) of 
the typical total domestic rifle production.

Sources: CJS87, TIME06FEB89.

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