(Registered) Guns Per Capita by State 2021

[safetyfirst2125]

EDIT: It appears this data is crap.

Digging around, here is the official MA licensing website’s Jan 2021 data by town, if someone were so inclined to add up the FID licenses:

Copy of Firearms Licenses Active on 07.01.20.xlsx | Mass.gov

The data spreadsheet by town: https://www.mass.gov/doc/firearms-licenses-active-jan-1-2021/download

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According to this* if you are in MA and own 8 guns you personally own .02% of all the guns in the state.

• NH: 47 per 1,000 (64,135 registered guns, population 1,372,200)
• MA: 5 per 1,000 (37,152 registered guns, population 6,912,240)

*Guns Per Capita 2021

Here are the 10 states with the highest numbers of guns:

1. Texas (588,696)
2. California (344,622)
3. Florida (343,288)
4. Virginia (307,822)
5. Pennsylvania (236,377)
6. Georgia (190,050)
7. Arizona (179,738)
8. Ohio (173,405)
9. Alabama (161,641)
10. North Carolina (152,238)

Rhode Island and New York have the lowest guns per capita of 3 per 1,000 people each.

The three other states with the lowest guns per capita, all with 5 per 1,000, are:

• Delaware
• Hawaii
• Massachusetts
  
  “...it is important to remember that only six states and the District of Columbia require the registration of firearms. The sum of registered firearms equals only 6,058,390, a far cry from the 393 million total in America.”

 

[CATI]

NH has registered firearms ?

 

[MAGA99]

I’m sure that NH number is a low estimate. Probably just NFA items per person!! Guns with no paper trail are the best kind!

 

[AJK129]

I’m sure that NH number is a low estimate. Probably just NFA items per person!! Guns with no paper trail are the best kind!

The MA number is probably low too

 

[Mountain]

37K registered guns in Massachusetts? Wow, that's way off. The general packaging of that article is interesting, but they seem to have trouble with the facts. Below article should be pretty close:

As debate over gun control wears on, more and more South Shore residents are getting licensed

"There were more than 433,000 active licenses in the state last year, or about 62 gun licenses per 1,000 people, based on U.S. census estimates for 2018."

Thanks to the Wuhan Lab experiment, those numbers have soared even higher.

 

[JLopez071]

I’m curious, of the people who do own firearms in MA, what percent of those gun owners own more than 1, 5 or more, or 10+?

 

[ColdDayInHell]

Guns with no paper trail are the best kind!

I’m curious, of the people who do own firearms in MA, what percent of those gun owners own more than 1, 5 or more, or 10+?

No idea but I donated mine to Goodwill.

 

[Picton]

The MA number is probably low too

Way low.

No way do I own nearly one percent of the firearms in this state. NFW.

 

[SKumar]

37K registered guns in Massachusetts?

I thought I read that MA had ~80,000 background checks in the first quarter 2021.

Edit: Yep

 

[Brewer]

This data is worse than useless. What was the source?

Way low.

No way do I own nearly one percent of the firearms in this state. NFW.

But you can have fun saying you do while citing this article.

 

[EMTDAD]

“...it is important to remember that only six states and the District of Columbia require the registration of firearms. The sum of registered firearms equals only 6,058,390, a far cry from the 393 million total in America.”

so, when looking at roughly 1.5% of all firearms in the US.. they get these statistics... as @Brewer said.. useless

 

[Picton]

But you can have fun saying you do while citing this article.

Oooh.

Good point. I think if I hit a nominal 1%, I graduate from "cache" and "arsenal" and into "warlord" territory...

 

[safetyfirst2125]

37K registered guns in Massachusetts? Wow, that's way off. The general packaging of that article is interesting, but they seem to have trouble with the facts. Below article should be pretty close:

As debate over gun control wears on, more and more South Shore residents are getting licensed

"There were more than 433,000 active licenses in the state last year, or about 62 gun licenses per 1,000 people, based on U.S. census estimates for 2018."

Thanks to the Wuhan Lab experiment, those numbers have soared even higher.

Thanks that number seems more realistic.
Digging around, here is the official MA licensing website’s Jan 2021 data by town, if someone were so inclined to add up the FID licenses:

Copy of Firearms Licenses Active on 07.01.20.xlsx | Mass.gov

The data spreadsheet by town: https://www.mass.gov/doc/firearms-licenses-active-jan-1-2021/download

 

[Waher]

Prior to 1998 MA had something like 1.2+ million license holders. You'd have to be really dumb to think a minimum of 1.2 million guns were turned in, destroyed, or otherwise moved out of state.

 

[safetyfirst2125]

Prior to 1998 MA had something like 1.2+ million license holders. You'd have to be really dumb to think a minimum of 1.2 million guns were turned in, destroyed, or otherwise moved out of state.

So many boat accidents

 

[Mountain]

So many boat accidents

Weather's getting nicer. Anyone up for some magnet fishing?

 

[AHM]

I think if I hit a nominal 1%, I graduate from "cache" and "arsenal" and into "warlord" territory...

You do have that certain cachet about you...

 

[cathouse01]

This looks like several other articles of this type where they take the number of NFA registered firearms in a state as some indicator of the overall number of firearms owned in that state. It is a totally worthless correlation.

ETA Just checked, the numbers they are using are total NFA registered items, so they are including silencers and destructive devices. For example, they use the number 588,696 for the total number of guns in Texas. Here is the actual NFA breakdown for Texas as of April, 2017:

​

Any Other Weapon 7,182​

Destructive Device 250,568​

Machine-gun 36,534​

Silencer 242,859​

Short Barreled Rifle 43,354​

Short Barreled Shotgun 8,199​

TOTAL 588,696​

Typical of those who know almost nothing about firearms.

 

[42!]

According to this* if you are in MA and own 8 guns you personally own .02% of all the guns in the state.

• NH: 47 per 1,000 (64,135 registered guns, population 1,372,200)
• MA: 5 per 1,000 (37,152 registered guns, population 6,912,240)

*Guns Per Capita 2021

Here are the 10 states with the highest numbers of guns:

1. Texas (588,696)
2. California (344,622)
3. Florida (343,288)
4. Virginia (307,822)
5. Pennsylvania (236,377)
6. Georgia (190,050)
7. Arizona (179,738)
8. Ohio (173,405)
9. Alabama (161,641)
10. North Carolina (152,238)

Rhode Island and New York have the lowest guns per capita of 3 per 1,000 people each.

The three other states with the lowest guns per capita, all with 5 per 1,000, are:

• Delaware
• Hawaii
• Massachusetts
  
  “...it is important to remember that only six states and the District of Columbia require the registration of firearms. The sum of registered firearms equals only 6,058,390, a far cry from the 393 million total in America.”

EDIT: It appears this data is crap.

Digging around, here is the official MA licensing website’s Jan 2021 data by town, if someone were so inclined to add up the FID licenses:

Copy of Firearms Licenses Active on 07.01.20.xlsx | Mass.gov

The data spreadsheet by town: https://www.mass.gov/doc/firearms-licenses-active-jan-1-2021/download

If you follow the breadcrums the "actual" source of the information is U.S. - number of registered weapons by state 2019 | Statista but they won't tell you how they collected the data unless you pay. But with the study only accounting for about 1.5% of the total guns in the US, how accurate could it be?

 

[smokey-seven]

This data is worse than useless. What was the source?

Typical anti gun rhetoric, it's TJMSU. They just make stuff up.

 

[Brewer]

Typical anti gun rhetoric, it's TJMSU. They just make stuff up.

GIGO.

 

[fencer]

It's easier to push your narrative if you claim gun owners are just a small group of whackos

 

[mothybee]

Way low.

No way do I own nearly one percent of the firearms in this state. NFW.

I came out with .09 myself.

 

[Malodave]

That is only the guns they know about. I only have 7 guns that went thru a FFL. Three
of those were purchased in another State. All the others have been Fabricated by me.
With another five waiting to be Finished.

Malodave

I just counted mine. I guess I don't have enough yet, Because I could count them!

 

[Varmint]

According to this* if you are in MA and own 8 guns you personally own .02% of all the guns in the state.

• NH: 47 per 1,000 (64,135 registered guns, population 1,372,200)
• MA: 5 per 1,000 (37,152 registered guns, population 6,912,240)

*Guns Per Capita 2021

Here are the 10 states with the highest numbers of guns:

1. Texas (588,696)
2. California (344,622)
3. Florida (343,288)
4. Virginia (307,822)
5. Pennsylvania (236,377)
6. Georgia (190,050)
7. Arizona (179,738)
8. Ohio (173,405)
9. Alabama (161,641)
10. North Carolina (152,238)

Rhode Island and New York have the lowest guns per capita of 3 per 1,000 people each.

The three other states with the lowest guns per capita, all with 5 per 1,000, are:

• Delaware
• Hawaii
• Massachusetts
  
  “...it is important to remember that only six states and the District of Columbia require the registration of firearms. The sum of registered firearms equals only 6,058,390, a far cry from the 393 million total in America.”

EDIT: It appears this data is crap.

Digging around, here is the official MA licensing website’s Jan 2021 data by town, if someone were so inclined to add up the FID licenses:

Copy of Firearms Licenses Active on 07.01.20.xlsx | Mass.gov

The data spreadsheet by town: https://www.mass.gov/doc/firearms-licenses-active-jan-1-2021/download

The Mass number is not 5 per 1000 it’s 5000 per 1000.

just bogus data to make gun owners feel like a minority. It’s quite the opposite nowadays.

 

[Varmint]

It's easier to push your narrative if you claim gun owners are just a small group of whackos

Yes, we’re a very large group of whackos.

 

[snax]

They are undercounting big time. If you compile their list, this accounts for: 5,188,519 of guns.....uot of what was that estimate of total guns 300,000,000?
Their numbers are off, the story is useless.
But hopefully an adversary or foreign invader takes these numbers as the truth, because they'll be in for a big surprise.

 

[allen-1]

so, when looking at roughly 1.5% of all firearms in the US.. they get these statistics... as @Brewer said.. useless

When you extrapolate too far - the numbers become meaningless.

 

[bigben111435]

See post above^
If 8 firearms = .02%
40 firearms = .1%
I am willing to bet that there are more than 1000 folks in MA with 40 or more firearms.
Which would, according to the report account for all registered firearms in MA.
Definitely not accurate statistics in report.
But, I am curious how many LTC holders are in Mass.
According to a Metrowestdailynews article from 2020, there were over 700000 applications for LTC/FIDprocessed between 2008 and 2018.
Even if that counts renewals, there must have been at least half that many different applicants.

 

[sieveboy]

Vermont has 6000 guns? Where’d they get these numbers?