
gained several million new gun owners over the past several years, many of them first-time gun owners. Also notable is the fact that micro-compacts have taken a majority share in the combined sub-compact/micro segment. From 2019 to date, the micro-compact market has grown from an 18% to 25% share, making them a quarter of the 9mm semi-automatic handguns sold. While data from 2019 to date shows the compact category has consistently had the greatest sales performance, hovering around 40%, the biggest changes have occurred in the micro-compact category. For SCOPE analysis, a micro-compact gun has a barrel length of fewer than 3.5 inches and single/staggered stack magazines. Every manufacturer and media outlet tends to have a slightly different definition of a micro-compact gun.
COMPACT 9MM PISTOL FULL
SCOPE reports on 9mm semi-automatic handgun shipments separate pistols into several categories based on barrel length: full size, compact, sub-compact and micro. With releases like the new SIG SAUER Macro, a larger but still concealable pistol, are handguns following the trend of electronics? The data says no. Consumers are looking for easily concealable guns and manufacturers have responded with smaller guns and more rounds packed into a tinier frame. Handguns have also gone through a similar evolution in recent years with the rise of concealed carry. Storage and capacity are still top of mind, but remote cloud service storage options reduce the necessity of internal storage.ĮDITOR’S NOTE: We got the full rundown on the Best Concealed Carry Pistols! Micro-Compact 9mm Pistols Dominate Sales Nowadays, it seems as though manufacturers and the market are heading in another direction, newer phones hardly fitting in a jeans pocket with larger screens not unlike a small tablet. Compact, easy to transport and slip in a pocket. Cellphones, mp3 players – the original trend was to make them as small as possible.
