Want To Make a Million in the Gun Business? Start With Two Million.

An interesting book on the gun business has just appeared. It’s called Gun Country — Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America, written by a historian, Andrew McKevitt, who teaches at Louisiana Tech University and specializes in American consumer culture which obviously is an important issue when we talk about guns.

After all, we are the only country in the entire world in which more guns have been bought and owned than the number of people who live in the United States. And even though the Brady Organization didn’t know what they were talking about when they claimed there were more gun dealers than Starbucks, the truth is that you can find a retail gun shop in every second or third town.

I used to live in Southern New Jersey, the town of Flemington, to be exact, and within 40 miles of where my house was located, there are 50 licensed gun dealers working out of their own, retail shops.

So, the point is that maybe guns aren’t as frequently found in American homes as television sets, but the gun industry continues to manufacture and pump millions of guns into the commercial market, 7,011,945 in 2019, although probably 500,000 were shipped overseas. Six and one-half million guns in one year is a lot of guns.