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Largest Gun Manufacturers in United States [2024]

by Ryan Cleckner

April 16, 2024

Gun Manufacturer Stats

Total Number of Manufacturers: 3,245
Rifles
Manufactured: 3,934,374
Handguns
Manufactured: 7,911,837
Shotguns
Manufactured: 675,426
Misc
Manufactured: 1,283,282
Total Firearms: 13,804,919

The American firearms industry is massive – recent years have seen nearly 40 million firearms sold each year in this country.

That means that we also have a lot of firearm manufacturers producing those firearms.

You may be wondering, which firearm manufacturers are the largest?

If that’s you, you’re in luck because we have the gun manufacturing stats straight from the ATF for every manufacturer in the country and we’ll go through the top 10 gun makers here and include a table with the top 50 gun manufacturers below.

Top 10 U.S. Firearm Manufacturers

Here are the top 10 firearm manufactures in the country:

Top 10 Gun Manufacturers

#1 Smith & Wesson	Total Firearms: 2,316,857 Rifles: 427,368 Shotguns: 2,773 Handguns: 1,881,242 Misc: 5,474	Learn More
#2 Ruger	Total Firearms: 2,076,094 Rifles: 735,859 Shotguns: 22 Handguns: 1,334,097 Misc: 6,116	Learn More
#3 Sig Sauer	Total Firearms: 1,293,532 Rifles: 80,129 Shotguns: 0 Handguns: 1,213,403	Learn More
#4 Springfield Armory	Total Firearms: 590,750 Rifles: 442,486 Shotguns: 0 Handguns: 148,264	Learn More
#5 Glock	Total Firearms: 581,944 Rifles: 0 Shotguns: 0 Handguns: 581,944	Learn More
#6 Anderson Mfg	Total Firearms: 505,635 Rifles: 32,405 Shotguns: 0 Handguns: 1,443 Misc: 471,787	Learn More
#7 Heritage	Total Firearms: 505,601 Rifles: 13,017 Shotguns: 0 Handguns: 492,584 Misc: 0	Learn More
#8 Mossberg	Total Firearms: 492,167 Rifles: 70,654 Shotguns: 292,944 Handguns: 24,311 Misc: 104,258	Learn More
#9 Savage	Total Firearms: 406,867 Rifles: 392,880 Shotguns: 13,352 Handguns: 635 Misc: 0	Learn More
#10 Taurus	Total Firearms: 290,780 Rifles: 0 Shotguns: 0 Handguns: 290,780 Misc: 0	Learn More

#1 – Smith and Wesson

Top 50 Gun Manufacturers

Rank	Manufacturer	Handguns	Rifles	Shotguns	Total
1	SMITH & WESSON SALES COMPANY	1,881,242	427,368	2,773	2,316,857
2	STURM, RUGER & COMPANY, INC	1,334,097	735,859	22	2,076,094
3	SIG SAUER INC	1,213,403	80,129	0	1,293,532
4	SPRINGFIELD INC	148,264	442,486	0	590,750
5	GLOCK INC	581,944	0	0	581,944
6	WM C ANDERSON INC	1,443	32,405	0	505,635
7	HERITAGE MANUFACTURING, INC	492,584	13,017	0	505,601
8	MAVERICK ARMS, INC	24,311	70,654	292,944	492,167
9	SAVAGE ARMS, INC	635	392,880	13,352	406,867
10	TAURUS INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING, INC	290,780	0	0	290,780
11	KIMBER MFG INC	272,150	3,175	0	275,325
12	SCCY INDUSTRIES LLC	216,932	0	0	216,932
13	KEL TEC CNC INDUSTRIES INC	100,398	68,669	46,737	215,804
14	LEGACY SPORTS INTERNATIONAL INC	5,907	47,252	161,099	214,258
15	HENRY RAC HOLDING CORP	3,214	205,196	13	208,423
16	AERO PRECISION LLC	63	508	0	174,662
17	FN AMERICA, LLC	132,205	37,202	0	169,407
18	DIAMONDBACK FIREARMS LLC	29,414	133,162	0	163,195
19	BERETTA USA CORP	129,965	1,177	24,210	155,352
20	COLT'S MANUFACTURING COMPANY LLC	90,262	61,509	0	151,771
21	CENTURY ARMS INC	4,971	61,103	0	132,705
22	RADICAL FIREARMS LLC	26,086	99,954	0	126,040
23	HENRY RAC HOLDING CORP	10	91,752	15,865	112,180
24	BLACK RAIN ORDNANCE INC	3,722	44,662	0	110,727
25	STRASSELLS MACHINE INC	61,807	45,000	0	106,807
26	IWI US INC	49,094	31,603	15,965	96,662
27	REMARMS LLC	1,357	23,444	45,277	86,594
28	KEYSTONE SPORTING ARMS LLC	1,086	76,860	3,951	81,897
29	BOND ARMS, INC	80,093	0	0	80,093
30	DANIEL DEFENSE LLC	0	76,729	0	76,729
31	TDJ BUYER, LLC	6,187	65,901	0	72,983
32	SHADOW SYSTEMS LLC	59,615	0	0	59,615
33	NORTH AMERICAN ARMS INC	57,836	0	0	57,836
34	AMERICAN TACTICAL INC	17,660	20,729	899	53,055
35	BROWNING ARMS COMPANY	44,491	1	2	44,494
36	WILSONS GUN SHOP INC	12,297	29,446	3	41,746
37	STAG ARMS LLC	5,540	21,649	0	40,540
38	ROCK RIVER ARMS INC	5,619	34,346	0	39,965
39	KE ARMS LLC	2	1,408	0	38,671
40	BEARMAN INDUSTRIES, LLC	37,619	0	0	37,619
41	CMMG INC	20,301	7,341	0	32,173
42	DEL-TON, INC	2,342	27,498	0	29,840
43	3RD GEN MACHINE INC	439	1,728	6,907	28,730
44	LWRC INTERNATIONAL	4,046	23,269	0	27,331
45	STANDARD MANUFACTURING CO LLC	11,916	2,981	9,435	26,630
46	RWC GROUP LLC	5,599	8,599	5,999	23,588
47	SENGA ENGINEERING INC	0	0	0	23,324
48	ZEV TECHNOLOGIES INC	15,046	4,559	0	23,235
49	WINDHAM WEAPONRY INC	1,264	20,221	0	22,930
50	GREAT LAKES FIREARMS AND AMMUNITION LLC	158	21,707	0	22,388

Where do we get this gun company data?

A part of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a federal law protecting the gun industry, there can not be a federal registry or database of firearm ownership.

However, the ATF, which promulgates the Gun Control Act and the National Firearms Act, collects manufacturing data from all Federal Firearm Licensees (FFLs) who are a firearm manufacturer in an annual report called the Annual Firearms Manufacturer and Exporter Report (AFMER). As the name implies, is it a report of all manufacturing and exporting of firearms by these FFLs each year (it does not include gun dealers, only gun makers).

About Ryan Cleckner

Ryan is a former special operations sniper (1/75 Ranger) and current firearms attorney, firearms industry executive, university lecturer, and bestselling author of the Long Range Shooting Handbook.