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Gun ownership rate by town in MA
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bigbravehog
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not surprised at the 4 towns with the lowest ownership
BOSTON 1.79%
AMHERST 1.62%
BROOKLINE 1.25%
CAMBRIDGE 1.08%
BOSTON 1.79%
AMHERST 1.62%
BROOKLINE 1.25%
CAMBRIDGE 1.08%
Lots of other raw data available here:
www.mass.gov
Data about firearms licensing and transactions
The Firearms Records Bureau publishes data on firearms licensing by licensing authority and firearms transactions by gun dealers.
www.mass.gov
Mark from MA
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Awesome stats for the criminals to study. Of course all these stats are legal gun owners.......there are many more gun owners in Roxbury, Lowell, Lawrence.....they just aren't represented because they are unlawful in the MA scheme of things.Interesting thread found in Reddit. Being from Lexington, guess that makes me a "Three Percenter."
Im a 25 percenter.
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Wonder where Quincy stands
| QUINCY | 5357 | 101636 | 5.27% |
headednorth
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Man, you have to go pretty far down that list before you come to a town thats listed on a map.
My town is sadly well into the single digits. My birthplace is right in the bottom five, although if you counted actual gun "ownership" (possession?) rather than active firearm licenses, they'd be a lot closer to the top![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
My town is sadly well into the single digits. My birthplace is right in the bottom five, although if you counted actual gun "ownership" (possession?) rather than active firearm licenses, they'd be a lot closer to the top
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What you "tax" you get less of. All the hoops act as a tax
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Taunton 10
Lakeville 19
Berkley 22.
I know how to pick em!
And that's of TOTAL population, I assume. Not legal-age population.
Lakeville 19
Berkley 22.
I know how to pick em!
And that's of TOTAL population, I assume. Not legal-age population.
Now that you mentioned it, it is total popualtion.Taunton 10
Lakeville 19
Berkley 22.
I know how to pick em!
And that's of TOTAL population, I assume. Not legal-age population.
Bad data, from the gov? No way.
Using population over 21 brings Boston to 2.21%
El_Guapo77
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Greater Boston area was disappointing but had a few surprises
SKumar
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A lot of those high percentages are from small towns of <1000 residents. Significant towns high ownership per capita: Middleborough, Carver, Westfield. Within rt 95, it seems like the rate is 6-7%.
Asaltweapon
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There’s now only 431 in Carlisle. 
Asaltweapon
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Still safer than a sheep.
Mark from MA
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Nothing new about moonbats thriving in the eastern 3rd of this state.
tinhorn
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Same is true of the state in general. Interesting that Oregon, where the latest attack is happening, has over 50% gun ownership.
That's a tricky statistic, since states like MA which track (legal) gun ownership are the outliers.
Some of these graphs use "Registered Guns" (meaning NFA tax stamps), which at least is based in hard numbers; others (RAND, Pew Research, etc) use self-reporting via phone survey or try to make a guess based on hunting licenses and how many subscribe to Guns & Ammo magazine.
I suspect that "Households with at least one licensed adult resident" is inversely correlated with apartment dwelling and thus the small towns rank high.
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I think we'd be surprised how many people who have guns that do not have LTCs/FIDs, especially in the rural towns, and I am not talking criminals.
ReluctantDecoy
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lol....I'm in the 1.08% (last place!).
On the up shot, I noticed Cambridge placed this on their LTC section of their website (yellow highlighted part). I like the transparency.
On the up shot, I noticed Cambridge placed this on their LTC section of their website (yellow highlighted part). I like the transparency.
Oregon is AWESOME! Except for Portland.
I inadvertently went to a gas station that was featured in the movie ‘Kindergarten Cop’ when I was out there picking up my VW Vanagon Westfalia in March 2021 and they had AR’s/AK’s, rifles and pistols, ammo, reloading components, fishing gear, Mexican food, camping supplies…what a cool place! Wicked dump though, but in the middle of NOWHERE!
Stopped on my way back to the Portland area from my visit to haystack rock (from the last scene in the goonies) at cannon beach.
Mesatchornug
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High-five fellow 1%er!
It's good to see that update. Last I checked, they hadn't done it.
There's also a bit of double-counting. I'm pretty sure you can't have a MG license without a LTC, but the person doing the math simply divided the total of licenses in the town by the census population. This, coupled with the folks who have LTCs but don't own firearms gives us a feeling of greater precision than we're actually capable of.
Nor is it particularly meaningful.
Middlefield population: 385. Savoy: 645. “There are more gun owners in Brookline than people in Middlefield and Savoy combined.” Who cares?
Number of licenses by %.
Boston: 12,302
Amherst: 634
Brookline: 801
Cambridge: 1,307.
Wonder where Quincy stands
| QUINCY PD | Firearms Identification Card | 123 |
| QUINCY PD | License to Sell Ammunition | 1 |
| QUINCY PD | License to Sell/Rent/Lease Firearms, Rifles, Shotguns or Machine Guns | 1 |
| QUINCY PD | Resident Class A Large Capacity License to Carry Firearms | 5360 |
| QUINCY PD | Resident License to Possess a Machine Gun | 8 |
