A look at gun sales.

America’s gun industry is booming. Over 11.3 million firearms were manufactured in the United States in 2020, more than double the 5.6 million produced in 2010, and nearly triple the 3.9 million guns manufactured in 2000, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Surging demand for firearms has been a boon not only for the balance sheets of American gun makers, but also government coffers.

Between sporting arms and ammunition companies and supporting sectors, the American firearm industry generated $70.5 billion in economic output in 2021, according to the advocacy group The Firearm Industry Trade Association. The federal government also levied $4.6 billion in business taxes from the gun industry in 2021, up 84% from a decade earlier. The firearm industry in some states accounts for a far larger share of government firearm tax revenue than others.

The federal government collected $28.7 million in business tax revenue from the firearm industry in Louisiana in 2021. Adjusting for population, this comes out to about $6 per state resident, the ninth lowest among the 50 states.

Overall, Louisiana’s firearm and ammunition industry, including supporting sectors, employed 3,615 people in 2021. The industry generated $617.4 million in total economic output, or $134 per capita, the 10th lowest per capita figure among states.

All data in this report is from the 2022 Firearm and Ammunition Industry Economic Impact Report from The Firearm Industry Trade Association.

The first number is the ranking, the second is the state, the first numbers are Per capita fed. business tax revenue from gun industry in 2021, the next si the Gun industry economic output per capita and the last number is total gun industry jobs.

1 New Hampshire 146.37 1,960 9,950

2 Wyoming 67.36 1,190 3,672

3 Idaho 52.83 887 6,999

4 Arkansas 42.00 835 10,426

5 Minnesota 36.97 488 11,680

6 Oregon 31.68 420 8,952

7 Connecticut 29.96 400 5,264

8 Utah 27.67 398 8,893

9 Massachusetts 27.58 407 10,151

10 Arizona 24.77 320 11,933

11 South Dakota 23.22 416 1,842

12 Maine 21.53 305 3,523

13 Nebraska 19.47 338 3,325

14 Montana 18.90 332 2,454

15 Mississippi 17.22 315 4,737

16 North Carolina 15.20 238 13,017

17 Vermont 15.02 224 828

18 Pennsylvania 14.93 206 18,891

19 Illinois 14.51 226 13,051

20 Washington 14.44 180 8,166

21 South Carolina 13.63 238 6,789

22 Colorado 13.33 175 6,712

23 Missouri 12.97 203 7,899

24 Ohio 12.49 201 15,256

25 Michigan 12.29 187 11,759

26 Florida 11.92 159 22,332

27 Nevada 11.85 165 3,201

28 Wisconsin 11.51 210 6,661

29 Texas 11.20 189 31,632

30 Tennessee 10.57 161 7,097

31 Kentucky 10.48 189 5,101

32 Maryland 10.13 144 4,286

33 California 9.70 133 29,082

34 Virginia 9.47 150 7,424

35 Georgia 9.20 165 9,045

36 New Jersey 8.32 114 5,174

37 Alaska 8.30 165 1,029

38 Alabama 8.25 147 5,247

39 Rhode Island 8.22 166 826

40 New York 7.85 128 10,150

41 Iowa 6.98 151 2,779

42 Louisiana 6.20 134 3,615

43 West Virginia 6.18 123 1,702

44 North Dakota 5.76 103 652

45 Indiana 5.55 138 5,021

46 Oklahoma 5.14 104 2,702

47 Kansas 4.35 198 2,133

48 New Mexico 4.11 77 1,442

49 Hawaii 3.49 51 578

50 Delaware 2.86 73 503