According to the Small Arms Survey of 2017, the United States had a population size of around 326,474,000 people. Of the country's total population, there were far more guns than there are people. This fact still rings true, with the only major difference being that the population of the United States and the number of guns in the nation have grown in size.

Back in 2017, for every one hundred people in the United States, there were one hundred twenty firearms in the hands of the general public.

There were far more unregistered weapons circulating around the country, especially in comparison to the number of registered firearms. The number of registered weapons in 2017 was around 1,073,743 guns, while the number of unregistered weapons surpassed three hundred and two million firearms.