New Gun Statistics from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Reveal an Increase in Firearm Ownership
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) has released the number of dealers in the U.S. There are now just over 129,800 BATF licensed dealers, according to the latest Bureau statistics as of August 1st, 2012, that's an increase of 3,200 more gun dealers in America. Of those, 51,438 are retail gun and/or sporting goods stores, just over 7,350 are pawn shops and 61,560 are individual deale