Category
Percentage Owning
a FirearmHouseholds 42%Individuals 30%Male 47%Female 13%White 33%Nonwhite 18%Republican 41%Independent 27%Democrat 23%
People who buy them for hunting, people who buy them for sport, people who buy them to collect, people who buy them for personal defense.
Because people buy them.
RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS
Your question assumes that people shouldn't be able to buy guns "in the market", whatever that means, which is far from proven.
As many as you have money to buy.
The US Navy has made purchases from Browning many times throughout its history.
none
alot
Buy them, steal them, inherit them, make them.
quite a few
a lot
Because we are a free nation and have rights. Many people use the guns for protection, hunting for food, killing snakes or other animals in and around their homes. Guns are not bad. Stupid people who don't know how to use a gun, or bad people who want to harm others with guns, or dumb people that allow children access to guns are the real problems.