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Posted: 1/9/2009 10:57:36 AM EDT
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The panic buying, back order silliness that has infected the AR industry got the accountant in me thinking; Just how many AR's are built in one year? Knowing that ATF tracks this a quick search of their webisite turned up the numbers I was looking for.
A couple caveats. These numbers are for 2006, so they're a couple years old, The list is by the actual corporate name of the company. Some, many companies I did not recognize. I only pulled the ones I knew made AR's. Also, some of these companies may make rifles other than AR's, so the numbers may be a bit skewed. Anyway in order, here is what I found: Bushmaster 60838 DPMS 47466 Stag 22120 Rock River 17554 Armalite 10758 Colt 8480 Olympic 7334 Vulcan 5941 Smith & Wesson 4650 Double Star 3534 Superior 2558 Lauer 2394 CMMG 2161 Sabre 1268 High Standard 557 Wilson 514 Cav Arms 395 Lewis 275 Spike's 228 Noveske 43 199068 Call it 200,000 a year. I'm assuming 2007 was about the same. Obviously 2008 will be higher. And 2009 is anybody's guess. Make's you wonder just how many AR's are backordered compared to a normal year's production. The entire report is availible on the atf website. Its about a 30 page pdf. Sorry about the formating. Excel doesn't seem to import into AR15.com very well. |
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Some of those numbers look real low, like Lewis, which I am assuming is LMT, and Cav Arms for example. But the scarry thing it that there were 5941 Vulcans made in ONE YEAR  that is why I am assuming it is rifles reflected in those numbers. because back in the day LMT didn't sell complete guns to civies |
| I'm assuming it includes bare lowers, basically anything with serial number. Some of the low numbers may be due to the company just getting started. I don't know how long Noveske has been around, but I don't think they're all that old. '06 may have been their first year. |
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I'm assuming it includes bare lowers, basically anything with serial number. Some of the low numbers may be due to the company just getting started. I don't know how long Noveske has been around, but I don't think they're all that old. '06 may have been their first year. those numbers don't include stripped lowers, spike sold 1000's in 06 |
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