The United States is the world’s largest consumer market for firearms, and not surprisingly, many major gunmakers — including those headquartered in a foreign country — have U.S.-based production facilities. However, as of 2020, the most recent year of available firearm import data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), over 80% of the nearly 2.4 million shotguns sold in the U.S. were imported from abroad. According to the ATF, many of the best-selling shotguns in the U.S. were manufactured in Turkey, Italy, China, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.
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