Well there is Arkansas always 49 or 50. This time its a good 49!!! I personally only know maybe 2 or 3 people who do not own guns so I would have guessed higher.
That's funny, anyone that believes that only 33 percent of AZ'ers are armed is smoking some funny stuff! Every single person I know here has a gun are 20! I know if for FFL records, but it's laughable that someone actually put that out.
At least 20 states require gun sales records to be retained by licensed dealers. Those records include the name of the buyer and the type of gun. Some states require that information to be reported to law enforcement. Some states require private sales of handguns to be reported to law enforcement.
There are plenty of databases showing who purchased what gun in many states. Granted the Feds can't maintain their own overall database, but they can access the individual state databases when investigating a crime.
It's so convoluted, I have a hard time putting any trust in the accuracy of the original article.
GG - yep, FFL's have to maintain their records for 20 years. But that's about as far as it goes for an actual firearm registration scheme. As far as type, it is either long rifle or handgun.
You guys are forgetting the inter big city population. That is the ones that throw the percentage off with the rural people. Besides gun people sorta only know other gun people.
NY at 10%???? Lived there for 64 years and everyone I knew had guns. rural areas up there are well armed. Would tend to think the state I am in is 15-20% higher than listed.
I have no way of refuting the rankings, but there is no way Wisconsin is in the 30’s percent. It has to be closer to 55-60% of the households, most are old unregistered hunting shotguns.
"That's funny, anyone that believes that only 33 percent of AZ'ers are armed is smoking some funny stuff! Every single person I know here has a gun are 20! I know if for FFL records, but it's laughable that someone actually put that out."
Totally agree - try robbing a convenience store or restaurant here. The cops would have a hard time figuring out what armed citizen stepped in first. The Walmart close to me - always quite a few open carry folks - in an area where we don't even need a permit to carry concealed. I always figure for every open carry, there's another 5-10+, who knows how many, carrying concealed.
And of course, we have some of the lowest crime rates in the nation. Especially when you get out of Phoenix and Tucson.
I wunder what the total gun number per state is. AK, for all their high %, doesn't have a lot of people. I bet there's far more guns in California than in AK based simply on the fact that there's 50 times more people in CA than AK. If the SHTF, CA would be the absolute worst place to be. Millions of people and millions of guns. It'd be an absolute bloodbath.
You are correct Ike 39.5 million people and 19.8% comes out close to 8,000,000 guns. That’s the ones they know of. I was at a gun show A few years ago and one seller sold 100+ 80% AR Lowers in two days. There were 15 + sellers there. One gun store couldn’t keep them in stock. Shoot I know people that have between 50-70 long guns and only a fraction are registered.
All I know is that the left are saying that there is going to be a Civil war soon. I point out that it will be very short. The right owns most of the guns, and the left will stomp and cry and want a time out crying booth. My first goal would be to take out the thugs of ANTIFA in Portland, and Seattle
