most-heavily-armed-states-in-america

cbsnews.com/ ^ | 6/30/2016 | CBS Evening News

[spintreebob]

Since pistols are most likely in big urban areas and long guns in rural areas, is the entire premise of he article bogus?

[Gaffer]

This is 53 pages of click bait.

[refermech]

Registered guns ? Very funny !!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This is 53 pages of click bait.

Click bait indeed. When I saw "1/53", I clicked the "X" in the upper right.

[Ken522]

The methodology talks about “registered” firearms ... that’s a big difference with the actual number ....

[Paulie]

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.

[Gaffer]

It’s a CBS news site and they pull this hit count crap. It shows you how desperate some of them are to report bogus traffic counts up to the accountants at corporate.

[Neoliberalnot]

“Click bait”

Excellent descriptor. Some very good sites are banned from posting here while some very heinous anti- freedom sites are allowed. IMHO, the NYTimes should be banned, along with cBS

[Gaffer]

I have one thing “registered”. It’s an NFA suppressor.

Everything else is either personal acquisition or by Form 4473 which is not legally allowed to be included in a government “registration list.” The Form 4473, in fact, stays with the gun seller. They aren’t required to turn them over to the feds unless they have a court order that specifies a SPECIFIC serial numbered sale.

[wyowolf]

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...

[Gaffer]

I hear or see CBS and I think “Dan Rather.”

[Sooth2222]

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.

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.)

[yuleeyahoo]

None of my guns would show up on those lists.

[Neoliberalnot]

Yeah, Dan Rather is the one that got caught. How many escaped?

[rktman]

Reggie stirred? What’s that? Funny how on some tv shows you hear “check the serial number on the gun to see if it’s registered.” Most places currently require no such thing. Currently.

[Gaffer]

As far as I’m concerned, the whole damned lot of them.

[Flick Lives]

Hey Feds! Ban the IRS from possessing assault weapons, then we’ll talk.

[unread]

"ATF's National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record>"

I thought that was totally illegal... There is no firearms registration in the United States..(??)

:(

[odawg]

What do they mean by “registered” firearms?

[Neoliberalnot]

The old media, as much as any organization, is our worst enemy.