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Americans Purchased These Firearms The Most In 2022
Post-Covid, firearm sales at the retail level soared to record levels. According to National Shooting Sports Foundation, the 2022 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) totaled 16.4 million. While NICS checks aren’t related to actual firearms sales, it’s a proxy for gun demand.
A new monthly report from GunGenius, which uses data from Gunbroker, reveals the top-selling firearms sold online in 2022:
- SIG Sauer P320 semi-automatic pistol
- Remington 700 bolt-action rifle
- Sig Sauer P365 pistol
- More
I must say, not at all what I expected.
who came up with that list? lots of plastic
Remington 700?
It did say “new and used”. Maybe it’s because they have been making it since the 1950s and there are probably hundreds of thousands available used.
You can save a lot of money if you’re looking for a good bolt action with the savage brand.
Excellent quality and a proven action with good safety features.
Also if you handload you can easily adjust the barrel for headspace without machine work.
I’ve owned them and shot many of them and can’t say anything bad.
I may have bought a Remington 700 & a 870. They where both 25yrs old & still in the box & had been sitting in a safe. Old guy said they kicked too much & went semi-auto.
Shouldn’t that evil black rifle AR15 be at the top of the list?
That’s what blow me Joe kept saying. With a 1000 round magazine.
“Top Selling Arms of 2022”
What was left in Afghanistan. THANKS ASSHOLE!
Up here, before Turdeau’s most recent confiscation attempt, the list was much simpler:
ANYTHING & EVERYTHING THAT WAS IN STOCK
My Rem 700 in WIN .308 is a tack-driver, just like my Enfield No.4 ROF Fazakerley from 1943.
Unfortunately I lost them in a balloon accident.
remember, this list is from the ” top-selling firearms sold online in 2022″
The Beretta A400, Marlin 1895 and Remington 700 are the only long guns on the list I would have much interest in. I guess the Ruger 10/22 also, I’ve got an A400 and it’s a good pit gun and the target guns are probably fine. They duck hind tIt for upland work. The safety is in the worst possible location. It leaves your trigger finger out by itself to get frozen stiff. I will probably buy another Ruger 10/22 model #11165. The Altamont Walnut stock is absolutely gorgeous on the one we have. It’s a good shooter once we put a BX trigger in it. Shoots as well as our laminate Target 10/22. I shot bears with a Marlin 1895SS. Never should have sold it. I liked it better than the 1886 SRC in 45/70 that I still have. The 700 is a good action, but I think that I prefer the Howa 1500 and Howa Mini. I could build a decent rifle on either the Remington or Howa though. It’s easier to source parts for the Remington.
I suppose the Sig, Smith and other plastic fantastic pistols all perform well. None of them will become classics though. I’ve got a 1911 and like it fine. We have a mess of nice 22LR pistols and revolvers, Colts, High Standards, Rugers and Smiths. I prefer them to picking up brass. We have Colt, Smith and Ruger 44 Magnum and Smith 357 revolvers. I’m fine with what we have. The only thing I might want is another Smith Model 52 to replace the one that was stolen.
By the way, that SS 365 is awful. I’d carry it before I’d carry a Derringer, but you need a tool to load the magazines, and 1000 hours to hit a 7 inch gong consistently at 30 feet.
And you carry it cocked all the time. Maybe that’s my age group. I prefer DA/SA (carried cavalry cock), one in the chamber, and safety off.
Rem 700s need trigger/sear work out of the box. At least mine did. Out of the box it was garbage. Creepy/dirty/lumpy.
I destroyed a trigger and sear trying to work it out. I did the same with the Enfield sear. The Enfield is two stage, so you have to work that out as well.
“A new monthly report from GunGenius, which uses data from Gunbroker,..”
IF you’re limiting your data to Gunbroker only, You’re not getting a very good picture of what’s been bought.
That would explain the list looking different than what you might think.
I have 2 on that list, Remington 870 and Ruger 10/22.
If I’m out of bed, I’m carrying. I work for a living. I bang that pistol on the sides of machines, catch it on raw material we’re prepping, etc, etc. It takes a mild beating. I’m a 1911 freak. I own one Glock. The one I carry Monday thru Friday. If I bang it on the side of a machine I’m dumpster diving in I could care less. Why? Because it’s a Glock. And when we go shooting, I swap mags with JHP and it goes bang every time. All in the ten ring at 25 yards. Tupperware has it’s place. After I put 25 rounds or so thru the Glock I strap on my 1911’s. Which I’m much more proficient with. I can control recoil much better on a 45 acp 1911 than a 9 mil Glock. Why? Because when you apply tons a pressure to a single stack grip it’s all up and down. Double stack with all kinds of fancy palm swells, not so much. If I knew I was getting in a gun fight, I’d be carrying a 1911 that day. Just my take.
Surely all of what you people and mentioning was before the tragic boating accident.
ATF has passed a new rule that all weapons must have flotation devices attached going forward.
I was in a balloon accident, bro. I wanted to take my favorite rifles sightseeing. They were enjoying all of it. I’m quite scared of heights. Especially cities with “Heights” in their names.
Then joetato had us shot down with a P-52 Hire Hellcat 18 inch Naval Stinger. We couldn’t stay afloat. Pheew!
Just done.
Important 411.
Before I even shot my G19 I swapped sights with the link below. Now every semi full auto pistol I own wears these. They’re freaken awesome.
//dawsonprecision.com/gun-sights/
Brought a smile to my face seeing the Mini-14 in there. Always wondered if the XGI (.308) had gone into production if it would have sold well.
.308 is nice shit.
I have a Sig Saur P365
fits my hand very nicely
“Rem 700s need trigger/sear work out of the box. At least mine did. Out of the box it was garbage. Creepy/dirty/lumpy.”
Erik, is your Rem 700 by chance made after 2008? Seemed like Remington and Marlin’s craftsmanship went down hill after they were acquired by the Freedom Group (happy that Ruger bought Marlin from Remington). Read so much about quality issues over the years. Saddens me because I was always a fan of Remington rifles and shotguns.
@ Different Tim
You’re right about Savage bolt rifles. My first was a 110FM ‘Sierra’ chambered in .30-06 that I bought for elk hunting. I refer to her as ‘Black Betty’. I got tired of killing them with my M-1 Garand. At 11,500 feet in altitude, it felt like a telephone pole. I have since acquired several Savage bolt rifles in various calibers. For the money, there is no better ‘out of the box’ rifle as far as accuracy. Savage has their stuff together. They make great guns for working men who don’t need to impress others with bells and whistles at the deer camp. I’m also fond of my Mossburg Patriot bolt rifle chambered in the mighty .375 Ruger cartridge. I dropped a monster black bear like a bag of wet cement with it. I don’t have any problems with Glocks, but I don’t own one. For reasons of privacy and time, I won’t list the others. Black Betty never misses and has put much venison in the freezer.
Hambone, I look at Savage as a F150 and expensive designer rifles as a Lincoln puckup. They do the same thing but ones gonna cost a lot more because of the badges.
Dang! I wish I had guns…..
FJB
Been trying to find a Savage model 99 in 308 for decades.
I’ll probably never get one but I’m always looking.
What this should tell you is don’t buy a firearm online-your info is obviously too acessable.