Most Heavily Armed States
 

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/most-heavily-armed-states-in-america/

I would have never guessed some were higher or lower.

15.2 guns for every 1000 residents.

I call bull crap on that.

You live in Alaska?

Registered firearms.

No wonder they have no idea of how many guns are out there. In New Zealand we wouldn't have a clue.

They are clueless how many guns are traded for no money, or paperwork in every state...I know of several !

Those stats are flawed.

Here in SC we don't register our firearms. We do Federal backgrounds but not if it is private sale or gun show sales. They have no way of knowing how many firearms there are.

DC #2 because they are required to register.

Yup. Same in most conservative states. Also doesn’t take into account those that are passed down through family and friends that were purchased prior to background check requirements. Take whatever is known and the reality is exponentially more.

What!? A journalist completely misunderstood the topic they were reporting on and drew a bunch of conclusions that were the complete opposite of reality? I'm shocked.

Fortunately, we can count on them to get the important stuff right. Like viruses. :rolleyes:

Given what I know about my friends' gun collections, those numbers might be off by a factor of 10.

Or 20.

Or 30.

Don't know for sure, as nobody will give you the real number they own. But, it's in that ballpark.

Shocked, shocked I say!

Apparently I count for > 1,000 people. I should get that many votes SmileWavy

Clickbait article based on NFA federally registered items database (SBR, Class III, suppressors, etc.). Nothing from Form 4473 transfers, private party transfers, etc..

It just shows you how a typical reporter doesn't know enough about the subjects they cover. Had I been asked to write an article on that subject, I'd have declined, as I know that there is no reliable data available.

Honestly, I don't know what number I'd even give if asked.

I have various projects in various states of completion. Some are legally firearms (had to fill out 4473), but lack the ability to fire a bullet. Some have the ability to fire a bullet but are not legally firearms (like a musket).

It’s a shame all mine were lost during that storm when the boat sank. Damn shame...

When I heard that guns kill people I just threw mine in the lake.

HRC got mine years ago...

My gun collection was lost in a tragic boating accident, right in the middle of the lake several years ago.

There is no registration needed here. I went to a gun show at at the state fairgrounds back in the early 1980s. I walked up to a table, saw what I wanted, and handed the guy behind the table the cash, and walked out. Well, after stopping at a different table to buy ammo.

Now of course there is a federal background check to buy a gun from a dealer. Those records are supposedly deleted after a short time.

No registration in most states, and the list in the link above is only for long-spoons. It does not include hand spoons, which is probably huge.

This list is like saying "this is a list of all of the people that have died in our city. Except that it's only the people that died of natural causes (not diseases or accidents) in hospital #3 out of our 5 hospitals. We also aren't counting the people that died in locations other than hospitals. But this is the complete list."

+1 Alaska at 15 and Wyoming at 195 (I think) guns per 1k heads. There's different types of accounting going on.

I have a feeling those countdown articles exist to generate mouse clicks for advertising revenue. Content is secondary.

Don't think reporters are only clueless about guns. You can assume this level of ignorance on most issues they cover. I love the reports about background checks each month outpacing the previous month. I probably buy at least five guns a year. Haven't been through a background check in 12 years other than for my CCW renewals. So how many guns do they think I have?

Absolutely!

Reporters are clueless about everything. Only thing they studied in school is journalism and I doubt they’d get an article about that right, either. Probably partied too hard in school to remember much of it anyway.

Cold fingers lead to accidental gun discharge?

Firearms and accidental deaths:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1324
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Okay, that is not what they say, but my eyes are starting to see it that way.:)

I was shocked about D.C. being to high on the list until I thought about it.
All those politicians who vote to take your rights to bear arms and are trying to nullify 2A have government provided (or private) ARMED security to protect THEM because it isn't safe in public otherwise. :mad:

If I had guns (and I don't, ya hear that gubmint?) that ridiculous article would not know about them.

I work in aerospace, every aviation related piece of news coverage is cringe-worthy at best. Most just blatantly wrong.

That's been true of every article and TV piece that I've had inside knowledge about.

It has been that way for many decades. It just has to fit the agenda of the reporter.

I used to be a press photographer. I went to many events, and was at an interview with a person and would meet a reporter at a site to take the photos for them if it was a one on one interview or story. Other times it was some politician or protest or march or whatever.

I would be there for the entire event, and leave with first person knowledge. The next day the story is in the paper, and I recognized the photo I took, but the story is way different than what I remembered.

Bad roads lead to putting an erector set and plastic wheels on your 911?

Where is Chicago on this map?

Yes,

I don’t have time to dig deep into the methodology. But something way low with that number.

Chicago has more shootings and murders in one week that the accidents are way to low to mention.

The vast majority of "accidental" shooting are no accident at all. Someone picked up a gun, pointed it and pulled the trigger. It is like saying someone accidentally threw a glass of water on the ceiling. It was a very deliberate action.

Usually the excuse is they did not know it was loaded, but anyone with more brains than a chimp know to treat all guns as loaded at all times. If a parents leaves a gun out and accessible to a kid, that adult needs to serve jail time.

Nothing accidental about what’s happening in Chicago.

Flat Six has it correct. This is about the NFA Federally registered Machine Guns, SBRs, destructive devices, etc.

Stupidest clickbait article on guns I have seen so far.

This excludes practically all the guns the average person would own

In New Zealand rifles and shotguns aren't on any sort of register, so we don't have any idea of how many guns are out there.

Haha, when I was about 11 or 12 I went into a gun shop to buy a new .22. the gun shop guy gave me a real telling off. So I came back with a "grown up" and Mom handed over the cash.

Now you just show them your gun licence, pay, and walk away with the gun. Hand guns are on a register.

I went to the Phoenix PD gun "buy back" about 12 years ago. A local tv reporter was there and we chatted her up. She said she was terrified of guns and had never touched one. Yeah, that who you put on a story like that.

GA beat by PA. I find that hard to believe.

I know several people that have collections that number in the hundreds of guns each! It is not unusual for a local shooting enthusiast to have 40 or 50 handguns and/or long guns! Yep, their numbers are just a bad guess!

When asked... I told "them" I had more than ten, but way less than Rick Lee.... haven't heard back yet :D.

In most of the US, there's no gun registration of any sort, and no license is required to buy a gun.