MA last in gun ownership

[Broc]

Deslide.de link here.

Given that lifetime FIDs were killed off 22 years ago, how could they not know the number of legal owners in Massachusetts?. Same goes for Illinois, New Jersey, etc.

The RAND Report ranks New Hampshire as #36 (slightly lower than Maine and Vermont) with 41% of adults in households with at least one firearm, but their methodology is flawed at best. I mean, hunting licenses and subscriptions to Guns & Ammo magazine?

Either:

1. Because they don't really want to know, for their BS stats. Like using total population instead of population over a certain age and that can legally own a gun.

2. Because they are f*cking morons. There was a thread of people checking their gun ownership record. Sold guns still showing under their names.

I think it is 1 and 2 combined.

 

[01906]

I think if they run the number six months from now is drastically going to change. I have two friends that have purchased 7or 8 firearms between the both of them the past 6 weeks.I have two friends that received there license on Friday (husband and wife). Two that are waiting on licensing authorities approval and another one that's still in limbo. All mass residents.

 

[KBCraig]

This article was crap when it was new.

Does anyone really think there are fewer than 20,000 guns in New Hampshire? CBS does.

That's because some twit at CBS watched too many TV police dramas, thinks all guns are registered, and then used numbers from the NFA registry as a substitute for total gun ownership.

 

[babygorilla]

That's why I like living here, if TEOTWAWKI comes I plan on going all Negan on my neighbors for their supplies, lol

/S

 

[Kevin_NH]

Does anyone really think there are fewer than 20,000 guns in New Hampshire? CBS does.

There are two different propaganda pieces, using two very different counts. The "20,000 registered firearms in New Hampshire" is NFA weapons only (excluding our +32K suppressors); NH has the most registered full auto per capita, but we're slacking on tax stamps for AOW/SBR/SBS/DD.

We're discussing a different article, based on the RAND report (linked above), this one is just a SWAG of how many households are disarmed.

 

[ReluctantDecoy]

The RAND report offers some genuinely good procedural methods of concluding figures, but terrible baseline categories. One such metric is whether or not the household as a subscription to Guns and Ammo. lol.

A lot of thought went into the calculations, by a lot of people who know nothing about firearms.

 

[Waher]

How is Hawaii not lower?

 

[hpm]

Having a slow day at the home office...so for all of you that don't want to click through that website here is the list:

GUN OWNERSHIP by STATE - % of adults having a gun in their home


49 (TIE) Massachusetts 14.7%
49 (TIE) New Jersey 14.7%
48 Rhode Island 14.8%
47 Hawaii 14.9%
46 New York 19.9%
45 Connecticut 23.6%
44 Illinois 27.8%
43 California 28.3%
42 Maryland 30.2%
41 Delaware 34.4%
40 Florida 35.3%
39 Ohio 40%
38 Michigan 40.2%
37 Pennsylvania 40.7%
36 New Hampshire 41.1%
35 Washington 42.1%
34 Minnesota 42.8%
33 Iowa 43.6%
32 Virginia 44.6%
31 Indiana 44.8%
30 Colorado 45.1%
29 Nebraska 45.2%
28 Wisconsin 45.3%
27 Texas 45.7%
26 North Carolina 45.8%
25 New Mexico 46.2%
24 Arizona 46.3%
22 (TIE) Utah 46.8%
22 (TIE) Maine 46.8%
21 Nevada 47.3%
20 Missouri 48.8%
19 Kansas 48.9%
18 Georgia 49.2%
17 South Carolina 49.4%
16 Vermont 50.5%
15 Oregon 50.8%
14 Tennessee 51.6%
13 Louisiana 53.1%
12 Kentucky 54.6%
11 Oklahoma 54.7%
10 North Dakota 55.1%
9 South Dakota 55.3%
8 Alabama 55.5%
7 Mississippi 55.8%
6 Arkansas 57.2%
5 West Virginia 58.5%
4 Idaho 60.1%
3 Alaska 64.5%
2 Wyoming 66.2%
1 Montana 66.3%

 

[AHM]

No way it’s lower than New Jersey.

On paper? Sure it is, but if you re weighted it by size, NJ is probably worse.

Newark and Trenton are on rivers.
Lotta tragic boating accidents happen on rivers.

The also need to consider that there are hundreds of thousands who can not legally own a gun.

What this nation needs,
is a list of states ranked by percentage of FPP residents.

 

[Wickedcoolname]

Doesn't surprise me at all. One of the largest gun forums in the region (this one) has an amazing number of members who are anti-police and ant-NRA. I wouldn't be slightly surprised to learn that this state is rock bottom in gun ownership.

 

[AHM]

One of the largest gun forums in the region (this one) has an amazing number of members who are anti-police and ant-NRA. I wouldn't be slightly surprised to learn that this state is rock bottom in gun ownership.