Posted on 07/17/2013 10:07:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In 1994, the United States was home to about 200 million privately owned guns. Today, that number has ballooned to between 270 million and 300 million. That's almost half of all privately owned guns worldwide, according to a new essay from the Brookings Institution.
The essay, titled The Promise by Matt Bennett, looks back at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and the way ahead for gun control. The piece breaks down some other big numbers surrounding the battle for more gun regulation: More than 10 firearm deaths per 100,000 Americans every year; 600 annual accidental shootings; 11,400 murders; about 31,000 total gun deaths. The most common age of people who commit gun crimes is 19, then 20, then 18. That's despite regulations that bar licensed dealers from selling handguns to anyone under the age of 21. Almost 100 million adults live in a home with a gun.
Bennett ties these numbers back to last year's tragedy in Newtown, Conn.:
Still in the arena as well are the families of Sandy Hook. Despite the glare of a spotlight that has forced them to repeatedly relive their darkest hour and subjected them to a stunning level of personal vitriol, they continue to come to Washington, meet with senators and talk to the press. They accepted early on that this was a long road—that a 20-year gridlock on gun policy was not likely to change in an instant.
The motto of Sandy Hook Promise is: "Our hearts our broken; Our spirit is not." And the extraordinary generosity of spirit that these brave people bring to this nasty, brutish political debate could, in the end, make all the difference.
You can read the full piece here.
Of the guns in private hands in the US, roughly 1/5 of them are owned by Texans.
freedom loving people look at this chart and are happy we’re the best armed free people in the world
statist, one world, globalist socialists look at this chart and are enraged armed us citizens throw their plans into disarray.
hence four attempts to disarm us by obama so far
1. fast and furious - evil gun stores - exposed, failed
2. gabby giffords - psycho after politician - exposed, lib angry gabby wasn’t liberal enough, failed
3. newtown - psycho kid after children - apears to be’false’flag with several men running away from site, one caught, partial success in CT, national fail
4. zimmerman self defense case - race war and gun control going after SYG law, predicted FAIL, as this wasn’t about SYG, as long as’it’s made clear, they will fail
I think the trick in this statistic is use of the word "privately". Many individuals have possession of guns they may not "own privately".
More than 47 million AK-47s alone (over 100 M in the AK family) were built and multitudes of third world resident, some from childhood, are seen carrying some kinf of gun around.
Just half? Most countries are awash with illegally-owned guns. I have had friends in several different countries tell me you can buy any type of gun underground.
USA!USA!USA!
Hmm, not a good thing at all. We should be way over half.
Interesting article. Apparently the Sandy Hook parents believe that since their kids were gunned down by a lunatic, then our kids should be left even more unprotected
I am coming to believe that the Sandy Hook parents are souless ghouls intent on promoting the slaughter of school children.
(It’s truly a tragedy what happened to their kids, but that DOES not mean that I must sacrifice the safety of my child)
More people have died by government owned guns than by privately owned guns throughout the history of man.
Alabama is May Issue? WTF?
But based on background checks performed by the FBI, there were more than 14 million gun-purchasing transactions in 2009—10 percent more than in 2008. Of course, a person buying three guns in a single transaction is vetted by a single background check, so the volume of background checks does not illustrate the total number of guns purchased, or the total number of people who bought a gun. Still, the statistics on background checks provide the most accurate window into the localities where the firearm industry is flourishing.
Those statistics show a country divided. If you want see how a state votes, it seems, just check out its gun ownership: All 10 of the most armed states voted for John McCain in 2008. All 10 of the least armed (including the District of Columbia) voted for Barack Obama.
For our rankings, we considered state data from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the last 18 months. We divided the number of background checks by each state’s population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2009 estimates.
One stipulation: States are not completely consistent in reporting of NICS data. Some states use the system for background checks on purchases on the secondary market and others do not. As well, Kentucky implemented monthly NICS checks on concealed weapons, which has inflated its numbers.
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1, Kentucky
Population:4,314,113
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents (Dec. 2008 – May 2010): 134,028
2, Utah
Population:2,784,572
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 30,315
3, Montana
Population:974,989
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 25,745
4, Wyoming
Population:544,270
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 22,827
5, Alaska
Population:698,473
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 22,273
6, West Virginia
Population:1,819,777
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 21,455
7, South Dakota
Population:812,383
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 19,062
8, North Dakota
Population:646,844
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 17,829
9, Arkansas
Population:2,889,450
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 17,483
10, Alabama
Population:4,708,708
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 16,860
11, Tennessee
Population: 6,296,254
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 16,684
12, Oklahoma
Population: 3,687,050
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 15,801
13, Idaho
Population: 1,545,801
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 15,764
14, Colorado
Population: 5,024,748
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 15,086
15, Missouri
Population: 5,987,580
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 14,712
16, New Hampshire
Population: 1,324,575
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 14,522
17, Mississippi
Population: 2,951,996
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 14,165
18, Illinois
Population: 12,910,409
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 13,879
19, Connecticut
Population: 3,518,288
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 13,783
20, New Mexico
Population: 2,009,671
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 13,408
21, Louisiana
Population: 4,492,076
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 13,329
22, Minnesota
Population: 5,266,214
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 13,285
23, Kansas
Population: 2,818,747
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 12,516
24, Washington
Population: 6,664,195
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 12,508
25, Pennsylvania
Population: 12,604,767
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 12,449
26, Oregon
Population: 3,825,657
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 12,059
27, Indiana
Population: 6,423,113
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 11,614
28, South Carolina
Population: 4,561,242
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 11,578
29, Maine
Population: 1,318,301
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 11,528
30, Virginia
Population: 7,882,590
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 10,134
31, Iowa
Population: 3,007,856
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 10,127
32, Nevada
Population: 2,643,085
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 10,115
33, Texas
Population: 24,782,302
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 9,936
34, North Carolina
Population: 9,380,884
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 9,411
35, Vermont
Population: 621,760
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 9,366
36, Georgia
Population: 9,829,211
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 9,200
37, Michigan
Population: 9,969,727
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 9,030
38, Wisconsin
Population: 5,654,774
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 8,534
39, Ohio
Population: 11,542,645
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 8,491
40, Nebraska
Population: 1,796,619
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 8,081
41, Arizona
Population: 6,595,778
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 7,954
42, Florida
Population: 18,537,969
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 7,510
43, Delaware
Population: 885,122
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 5,636
44, California
Population: 36,961,664
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 5,444
45, Maryland
Population: 5,699,478
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 4,040
46, Massachusetts
Population: 6,593,587
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 3,796
47, Rhode Island
Population: 1,053,209
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 3,504
48, New York
Population: 19,541,453
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 3,047
49, Hawaii
Population: 1,295,178
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 2,031
50, New Jersey
Population: 8,707,739
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 1,536
51, Washington, D.C.
Population: 599,657
NICS background checks per 100,000 residents: 155
And the water levels have risen to unheard of levels, as a result.
Way higher than for Global Warming.
I question the data. There are estimated at roughly 51 million privately owned firearms in Texas.
I think that is grossly low.
RE: Alabama is May Issue? WTF?
I believe that was an older map. Alabama will be a “shall issue” (as of 8/1/13) state for concealed carry. Permits are always issued to qualified applicants.
Well, that’s just horrible...
that every other country in the world doesn’t have the same percentage of gun owners that we do.
The NCIS numbers do not include gun show sales and exclude previously owned guns. It only reflects new purchases.
In the case of Texas some of the private firearms have been in the family for 2-3 generations.
So these numbers do not mean much.
Good.
That’s all? Let’s get crackin’
Did I miss the memo that every freaking news story about guns has to mention Sandy hook?
Why can’t the Oppressive –left ‘move-on’ from that? (To coin a phrase)
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