According to the National Shooting Sports Federation, there has been an 13.5 increase in gun sales with a figure of 815,858 guns sold in 2011.

There has been a constant increase in guns sold since 2008, the year Obama was elected.

The United States is the country with the highest defence budget in the world and first arm exporter in the world: in 2010 the US spent 698 billion dollars and sold around 8641 million US dollars according to the Stockholm International Peace research Institute.