As anti-gun organizations do everything they can to destroy the firearms industry, including siding with Mexico in a lawsuit by that country against American gun companies, an interesting new study shows just how important the industry is to the American economy.
According to the Firearm And Ammunition Industry Economic Impact Report 2025 just released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the gun industry trade association, the industry’s impact on the economy has jumped nearly 400% since 2008.
The report’s findings indicate that the total economic impact of the firearm and ammunition industry in the United States increased from $19.1 billion in 2008 to $91.7 billion in 2024, a 379% increase. Over the same time, the total number of full-time equivalent jobs rose from approximately 166,000 to nearly 383,000, a 130% increase.
In comparison to last year, the industry’s economic impact rose from $90.5 billion in 2023, to $91.7 billion in 2024. Of course, the firearm industry has broader impacts throughout the economy. It supports and generates business for firms seemingly unrelated to firearms, at a time when every job in America counts.
“Our industry is a vital economic contributor to every state and every community,” Joe Bartozzi, NSSF president and CEO, said of the report. “These are companies employing men and women from all walks of life and they prove daily that the American firearm and ammunition industry is strong,”
The firearm and ammunition industry paid nearly $11 billion in business taxes, including property, income and sales-based levies. An additional $886 million was paid in federal excise taxes, which directly contribute to wildlife conservation.
The report’s introduction stated: “The economic growth America’s firearm and ammunition industry has experienced in recent years has been nothing short of remarkable and has been driven by an unprecedented number of Americans choosing to exercise their fundamental right to keep and bear arms. This includes an estimated 3.9 million new gun owners in 2024.”
Interestingly, according to the report, the state with the most firearms industry jobs is gun-hating California, with over 13,000 Golden State residents working in the gun industry. The remainder of the top five states included Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois.
As NSSF’s Bartozzi also pointed out, the industry is responsible for providing the means by which law-abiding citizens can exercise their Second Amendment rights. Without gun and ammo companies, shooting would be impossible.
“Our industry enables Americans to engage in the American traditions of recreational target shooting and hunting, and we are the primary source of wildlife conservation funding in America,” he added. “The growth of the firearm industry equals more jobs that add to our local economies, averaging $68,300 in wages and benefits, up from $67,500 reported last year. Since 2008, federal business tax payments increased by 340%, Pittman-Robertson excise taxes that support wildlife conservation by 152% and state business taxes by 238%.”
I don’t think they care as long as they get rid of the second Amendment
This isn’t an argumentative road that I’d go down, but it seems they’ve already chosen it.
In ILL annoy the Dims are gleefully gutting the 2A. Financial gains be damned😧
Yeah we made sure to shut down and all but kick out Remington during the pandemic. As Strych is hinting this dog don’t hunt. Now as a progress report good to see this kind of growth.
At this point I’ve kinda resigned myself to the fact that many popular dogs don’t hunt and that this is not going to decrease their popularity.
People simply don’t care what works and what does not, they care about what they like and they will outright lie to themselves in order to maintain the fiction that they enjoy. Many will do this while paying an enormous price for their self-deception.
At the risk of enraging someone, or maybe even a group, let’s talk about a couple of facts that are inconvenient to the Right.
1. You know that trans bill in Colorado where they can take your kids for “abuse” if you don’t agree that they’re the opposite sex?
Here’s a fun fact: Texas has been doing that under the radar for a few years now using CPS. They’re just not quite as overt about it.
WhAT?! BuT dA tExaS iZ Red!!?
Maybe not as Red as you think when it comes to the people actually in charge, eh?
2. Where did the employer mandate for those safe and effective interventions start? Not the rollout or something, the mandates? Where were the mandates alpha AND beta tested? Well, the Biden Admin wanted to try it out first in a “red state”, or at least a state that claimed to be red and which many people believed the claim about.
So, where was this? Oh, funny you should ask: Houston and Dallas. With the assistance of Governor Abbot. That’s all documented within lawsuits going on in Texas to-freakin’-day that involve doctors still fighting to keep their medical licenses, which the Texas board of medicine is still trying to take.
In one of the more egregious cases; a Doctor in Texas, as of right now, is fighting to keep her license because she gave “dA hORzE PaZtE!” to a hospitalized patient under a court order!
Yeah, you read that right. A court of law ordered the patient to be given this medication as a last ditch effort when the hospital said death was inevitable. So, she did it and now Texas, the redest state that was ever red so I hear, is still, four and a half years later, trying to take her medical license. For, you know, practicing medicine and obeying the order of a freakin’ court.
Oh, as a, like, total sidebar: The guy recovered after the drug was administered. Because, as it turns out, molecular biology is actually real and the DoD wasn’t off its rocker on MERS.
Which, by the by, means they can’t even argue that she harmed this guy who was on hospice status under the care of the hospital. Kinda makes you wonder why Texas has such a stiffy for her license, huh? Why doesn’t the state, which is soooooooooooooooo Conservative, slap their medical board for this?
Again, maybe the people in charge ain’t so Conservative. Maybe it’s time for the rest of the people to wake up to this.
Re Texas yeah it was shocking they are not only more supportive of denying parental rights but are just as if not more red flag friendly than NY the last time I looked into it. Neocon/RINO rot goes deep and we are not looking forward to losing Stefanik up my way no matter how well suited she may be for Trump as she has more balls than most of the NY republican party combined.
Losing Stefanik?
Is this because she was picked for an ambo position?
As for the rest:
Once you see the pattern, you can’t unsee it and you will find that it’s everywhere. The people in power don’t like you. Their party really doesn’t matter much. D’s are just more public with their distain and a bit higher volume on the vitriol but the R’s hate the plebs too.
In Colorado, for example, you cannot possess a silencer without a federal tax stamp. The stamp is an affirmative defense against a charge of unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon.
Which means that if suppressors are removed from the NFA, then the ATF will stop issuing new tax stamps and therefore all silencer sales in the state after that are banned unless and until the law is repealed, which it won’t be.
The guv that signed that into law? A Republican, back in the 1970’s.
They don’t like you and, frankly, they haven’t for a very long time. It’s not a party thing, it’s a class thing.
Yes to the first (especially as NY will drag out a special election as long as possible to deny representation of our region) as to the rest Carlin did call it being a big party we are not invited to. Great to get the occasional redneck in to have some voice now and again but they often integrate with the system.