The 9mm handgun’s dominance in the American market is often described as culture, preference, and habit. The manufacturing record shows something blunter: output. In the most recent full-year federal manufacturing dataset, a handful of brands accounted for the bulk of domestically made 9mm pistols and one company did it at a scale that changes how the rest of the leaderboard reads.
These counts are production, not retail sell-through, and they do not capture imports. Still, they map the industrial footprint behind what people keep buying, carrying, training with, and stocking at ranges.
1. SIG Sauer
SIG Sauer’s domestic 9mm production for 2022 reached 1,798,373 pistols, nearly half of all U.S.-made 9mms in the dataset. The company’s output is tied to a modern product family that reshaped concealed-carry expectations, and to a factory strategy built for volume without abandoning inspection-heavy workflows. A look inside its Newington operation describes over 200 robots on the floor handling repetitive steps while employees manage the process and quality checks. In that account, the plant also references a demanding accuracy requirement on a government acceptance standard: 10 shots at 25 meters inside a 2.85-inch circle. However a consumer pistol buyer weighs that detail, the throughline is clear: production at this scale relies on tight process control, not just extra machines.
2. Smith & Wesson
Smith & Wesson logged 347,388 domestically manufactured 9mm pistols in 2022, placing it second in this production snapshot. The company’s 9mm volume sits within a wider, mixed portfolio, and that matters in a market where demand shifts and manufacturers rebalance lines. Broader industry analysis of ATF manufacturing data notes 9mm pistols accounted for 56.5% of all pistols produced in 2022, a figure that explains why established makers keep devoting capacity to the caliber even during softer years.
3. Glock
Glock’s U.S. production count for 2022 was 300,506 9mm pistols. The number captures only domestic manufacturing, not the company’s imported pistols, and that makes the figure an incomplete proxy for how often the brand shows up in holsters and agency inventories. Still, a domestic total in the hundreds of thousands signals an operation designed around consistent, repeatable output an industrial posture that has long matched Glock’s reputation for standardization across models and generations.
4. Sturm, Ruger & Company
Ruger produced 229,177 9mm pistols domestically in 2022, a sizable count for a company whose broader output spans rifles, pistols, and revolvers. That breadth can act like a stabilizer: when one category slows, capacity and attention can move. In a market described as increasingly promotional, Ruger’s CEO Chris Killoy summarized the pressure on narrow catalogs with a line that doubles as a manufacturing lesson: “We’re seeing some discounting to be sure, particularly if the manufacturer is only one product line deep or wide.”
5. Taurus International Manufacturing
Taurus’s domestic 9mm pistol output reached 167,871 in 2022. The company’s footprint shows how much 9mm demand is driven by everyday purchase decisions: compact polymer pistols built for routine carry, range use, and basic familiarity. In production terms, this tier of the list is where volume starts to look less like a single runaway leader and more like a crowded middle brands competing to keep lines running and dealer shelves replenished.
6. SCCY Industries
SCCY recorded 106,071 U.S.-made 9mm pistols in 2022, and the caliber represented 93.7% of its total domestic firearm production. That concentration signals a business built around one core chambering and a narrow set of use cases. It also highlights a risk profile: when 9mm demand shifts from scarcity to saturation, companies that live and die by a single lane have fewer places to hide.
7. Springfield Inc.
Springfield produced 88,137 9mm pistols domestically in 2022. The number matters less as a raw total than as evidence of how many parallel “hits” the modern 9mm market can support at once: micro-compacts, duty-size pistols, optics-ready variants, and model refreshes that keep existing platforms selling without requiring a full clean-sheet design.
8. Shadow Systems
Shadow Systems posted 76,685 domestically manufactured 9mm pistols in 2022, and that figure equaled 100% of its total U.S. firearm production for the year. In a category where bigger firms amortize tooling across calibers and product families, an all-9mm output shows focus. It also shows how thoroughly the 9mm has become the default platform for newer entrants trying to win attention in a mature market. The most striking pattern in these counts is not simply that 9mm leads; it is how production concentrates.
One company’s volume dwarfs nearly everyone else, while the remainder of the field spreads across mid-six-figure and five-figure totals that still represent serious manufacturing operations. In aggregate, the numbers describe a U.S. handgun economy engineered around a single cartridge: high-volume lines, constant iteration, and factories that treat repeatability as the product.
