This is 53 pages of click bait.
Registered guns ? Very funny !!
The methodology talks about “registered” firearms ... that’s a big difference with the actual number ....
Maybe CBS should include the firearms that virtually every alphabet agency has, and their own personal SWAT teams, along with the billion or so hollow points that DhS keeps for reasons only they know (although we can guess).
How about the cache of guns the gang bangers have at their disposal in areas like Chicago and LA?
Full disclosure would be nice, CBS.
Who Hoo
Wyo is number one!!
Strangely growing up there I had access to all manner of weapons yet I cant recall a single school or mass shooting...
Say WHAT? I would think that NFA items represent less than 1% of all firearms in the US. I can't believe that the number of $20,000-$50,000 legally registered machine guns in a state - only 2 or 3 of which have ever been used in crimes since 1934 - means much. (Or it might. I didn't click further, but I had read somewhere that New Hampshire has the highest number of legal machine guns per household of any state -- and also one of the lowest homicide rates of any state.)
None of my guns would show up on those lists.
I thought that was totally illegal... There is no firearms registration in the United States..(??)
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Wyoming here! I don’t even know how many guns I have anymore! FUCBS and FUBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From the first page of the article:
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“Here is a look at per capita weapons data,
based on the ATF’s National Firearms Registration
and Transfer Record, and 2013 data from the U.S. Census.
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 machine guns, short-barreled rifles,
short-barreled shotguns, suppressors, etc.”
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The registry they are using is of NFA weapons, machineguns, short-barrelled rifles and shotguns, and destructive devices.
Who the heck admits to firearms on their census? Those that do need evaluation.
These statistics don’t include the massive number of guns that were “lost” in boating accidents. (;
Really? Are you 'reeling'? I'm not.
Maybe it's just me.
The article is bogus. They are construing NFA-regulated items as “heavy” weapons by definition. Thus, States with the most NFA-regulated items are “most heavily armed”. This is of course idiotic.
What would be educational are stats on how many of the “heavy weapons” actually registered under NFA are ever used in crimes, even over a long period (let’s say 50 years). Would the percentage of registered NFA items used in violent crimes versus non-NFA firearms used in violent crimes be measurable? Perhaps .0000000000001%? Less?
This is moronic. They’re only counting “registered” weapons, like NFA or those in the Slave States that have gun registration.
Woo hoo! We're Number One! Go Cowboy State!
Oh yeah, Open carry or concealed, no permit needed either way. Welcome to Wyoming.
1) Machine Guns
2) Short Barrel Rifles
3) Short Barrel Shotgun
4) Destructive Devices
5) Silencers/Suppressors
6) Any other Weapon (AOW)
Lovingly know as the sexy six!
There is no way to get a good handle on what state has the most guns with a limited list like that since the majority of the " firearms" in the NFRTR have been added fairly recently such as Suppressors and SBR's; and some states that might have been gun friendly may have been behind in allowing NFA firearms.
Anyway I'm calling BS on the report.
District of Columbia is #2.
Politicians like THEIR guns.
Well since we don’t register guns in the US how bogus is the rest of this article?
I got to GA where it says we have about 147,000 guns. Somebody is in for a big surprise one day. LOL!