I wouldn't have myself except that the first time I hit the link I got a list of the 15 referenced states rather than having to click through. In spite of the ignorance on display by the author I didn't seem to me he/she was conflating FFL's to individual ownership. I interpreted the reference to be an attempt to link the number of people owning guns to be greater in proportion to the number of people licensed to sell them. I there are more FFL's per 100,000 because there are more sellers in less concentrated more sparsely populated states with smaller populations.baldeagle wrote:I haven't read the article (and I won't), but I found myself wondering howcum I never got when of them federal firearm licenses when I own several firearms.
Just one more reason why it's a waste of time to read most stuff - ignorant people produce ignorant articles.
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- Thu Sep 10, 2015 10:07 am
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- Thu Sep 10, 2015 9:59 am
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Oh, I agree that it's shabby "journalism," but then 99% of what passes for "journalism" is shabby, or worse. There were also some anti-gun jabs in the two introductory paragraphs. My signature line pretty much says what I think about "journalists."ELB wrote:By the way VMI, I'm not hatin' on you for bringing up the article, it would be an interesting piece of statistics. It just annoys me that such a shabby piece of "journalism" is allowed to exist. Even apart from it's little anti-2A digs, it is such a poor piece of writing.
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:58 pm
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Not just the South, and Texas, with lots of guns
http://firearm-dealers.gearsuite.com/st ... tm_term=dt
A questionable method of determining which state has "the most guns," but interesting nonetheless.
A questionable method of determining which state has "the most guns," but interesting nonetheless.
Wyoming is #1 in this analysis, but Maine and Vermont are also in the top 15. I suspect it's largely a function of population....the less populous the more licenses per 100,000.Many people assume that this controversy is just limited to southern states, where carrying a gun in public seems to be more commonplace than in other parts of the country (Candice Bergen’s character in Miss Congeniality sums it up perfectly ). And yes, Texas does lead the country in firearm permits overall (based on its entire population). But when FindTheBest looked at the breakdown of federal firearm licenses per 100,000 people on our firearm dealers topic , we found that it’s not the southern states that are manufacturing and selling the most guns, but somewhere completely overlooked. Based on data provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, here are the 15 states with the highest number of firearm licenses (per 100,000 people).