https://qz.com/1222436/a-third-of-guns- ... trol-laws/Austria, home of the 55-year-old gun maker Glock, accounts for many of the handguns brought into the US, at some 1.2 million in 2017. (Austria is also one of the rare European countries in which citizens are permitted to buy firearms for self defense.) Croatia, Italy, and Germany are also among the top five handgun exporters to America. Gun makers like Glock and the Swiss-German firm Sig Sauer have production facilities in the US as well.
Glock’s pistols are used by about 65% of US police departments, but the company also lobbies in favor of the American public’s access to firearms. Glock says it gave more than $100,000 to the National Rifle Association and its programs in 2016. Italy’s gun-making Beretta family is a big contributor to the gun lobby group.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/215 ... y-country/This statistic shows the number of imported firearms into the U.S. in 2016, by country. In 2016, a total of 1,322,694 firearms were imported into the U.S. from Austria.