This is an extremely worthless article. From their methodology.While the ATF’s National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record is the only accessible list of its kind, it is not all-inclusive. NFA firearms only include the categories regulated by The National Firearms Act of 1934: machine guns, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors, destructive devices like bombs and grenades, concealable devices with the ability to discharge a shot through the energy of an explosive, and any firearm with a bore over half an inch that has not been determined to have a legitimate sporting use.
In other words, the only thing they did is count NFA firearms which is almost nil.
In other words, their data came from NFA weapons, not handguns, hunting guns, or even AR15’s (with the exception of non-pinned suppressor AR’s with 14.5 and shorter barrels. They counted no handguns, no hunting rifles, no shotguns (except short barreled NFA), in other words about 99% of the guns in existence aren’t included in their “data”. It would be about the same as counting percentage of Dem voters, while only counting LBTQ’s.
True. But my goodness how badly the numbers are off! Even in Alaska, the numbers were just blatantly ridiculous.
GA at number 13 is probably a conservative ranking as a significant number of gun sales here are private transactions.
“In other words, the only thing they did is count NFA firearms which is almost nil.”
They did look at census data.
Data is skewed by what’s legal where. Only smooth bore pistols are legal NFA items in NY; not only is every other NFA category illegal, but what little is legal is suppressed by lack of infrastructure & interest & culture.