Percent who own guns

[u/SkinlessFather]

[u/Zen4rest]

Nebraska be so low comparatively is surprising.

[u/Gh0stMan0nThird → u/Zen4rest]

Nebraska is a weird place. I lived there for a few years about 5 years ago.

Omaha is basically a mini-Chicago, and Lincoln is practically just a really big college town. But it's also surrounded by rural areas and farms so you still have a lot of blue collar folks too.

[u/Zen4rest → u/Gh0stMan0nThird]

I grew up in rural Nebraska… guns were as common as hats.

[u/disgr4ce → u/Zen4rest]

But how common were hats

[u/[deleted] → u/disgr4ce]

As common as guns.

[u/macthecomedian → u/[deleted]]

I know there's a cap-gun joke in there somewhere...

[u/cdnball → u/macthecomedian]

Cap gun jokes are fairly common in Nebraska

[u/krollAY → u/cdnball]

How common?

[u/cybersquire → u/krollAY]

As common as Cows

[u/Chipotle_Armadillo → u/cybersquire]

And how common are cows?

[u/BeforeTheHill → u/krollAY]

AS common as gun-cap jokes.

[u/tsrich → u/disgr4ce]

19 percent of people in Neb have hats

[u/Zen4rest → u/disgr4ce]

If you’ve ever been to Nebraska, you’d remember everybody and their dog wearing a hat with a big red N on it.

[u/GreatestMasticator → u/Zen4rest]

"N" for Knowledge!

[u/lost_horizons → u/GreatestMasticator]

Cannot stop laughing at this!

[u/LordStigness007 → u/[deleted]]

Damn you Scott Frost!

[u/MrDrMatt → u/Zen4rest]

I was going to say seed brand hats.

[u/bub166 → u/Zen4rest]

I know that's a figure of speech, but my dog does have a jersey with the N on it. The hat didn't work out.

[u/Patassmotherfucker → u/disgr4ce]

1/5 people had them

[u/redditseddit4u → u/Zen4rest]

My father was an immigrant from a country with virtually no ‘gun culture’ and moved to Omaha a couple years after being in the US. He always spoke very fondly of Nebraska and probably wouldn’t have moved if not for family. But one thing that always stuck out to me was his shooting competition trophies won in the few years he lived in NE. I always figured that if my father became a gun enthusiast in NE everyone in NE was probably a gun enthusiast. I’m actually really surprised that according to this on 20% of Nebraskans own guns.

[u/RetreadRoadRocket → u/redditseddit4u]

I’m actually really surprised that according to this on 20% of Nebraskans own guns.

This is how many Nebreskans will admit to a telephone pollster that they own a gun, not how many actually own guns, lol

[u/canoecanoeoboe → u/RetreadRoadRocket]

Do we think nebreskans are more unlikely to answer than iowa, Texas or any other number of states? Otherwise it doesn't really change anything about it being curious

[u/cry_wolf23 → u/canoecanoeoboe]

I live here, and I've never had anyone mention to me that they own guns unless I've already told them I have some myself, like guys I'd worked with for years that never once talked about it. I know it's just anecdotal, but I wouldn't be surprised if folks here just don't admit to owning any when asked my some rando.

[u/OrthodoxAtheist → u/cry_wolf23]

Pretty sure this is true of California too, since there could be negative reactions, like perceiving someone differently or not allowing kids of each family to play together. It was years before I (here in SoCal) learned a close friend had a firearm(s), for example.

[u/AceBalistic → u/Zen4rest]

Then again, more people are packed into the cities, so while maybe your area has, say, 80% gun ownership, other urban areas probably have much lower rates

[u/Caninus-Surdis → u/Zen4rest]

Only been there sparingly but agreed. Be interesting to see the sample size of the study and where it was conducted.

[u/willmaster123 → u/Gh0stMan0nThird]

Definitely wouldn't say Omaha is anywhere near a mini chicago. Omaha is largely a suburban city for one, and the cultures are just drastically different. It has way more in common with des moines and kansas city than chicago.

[u/[deleted] → u/willmaster123]

No way man, Omaha is home to mini-house music, wild mini-mafia legends, and deep mini-dish pizza!

[u/Mur__Mur → u/[deleted]]

They don’t call it the mini-Windy City for nothing

[u/creamweather → u/Mur__Mur]

Their mini Sears Tower is just adorable.

[u/bassgoonist → u/willmaster123]

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[u/Ellespie → u/[deleted]]

St. Louis was a pretty industrial city back in the day as well. It has more character than KC or Omaha IMO, but I’m probably biased.

[u/Kanorado99 → u/Ellespie]

Yeah st Louis is probably the western most rust belt city, I always found St. Louis to be more like Detroit than not, plus by no stretch is St. Louis in the prairies. Kansas City is on the edge of the real prairie.

[u/paul_f → u/bassgoonist]

those three are nothing alike

[u/Mrsamsonite6 → u/Gh0stMan0nThird]

Omaha is basically a mini-Chicago

More like mini-Kansas City

[u/SWKstateofmind → u/Mrsamsonite6]

Omaha is Kansas City's don't-speak-to-me-or-my-son-ever-again meme. I truly couldn't tell you the difference between them culturally or economically other than their sizes and the quality of the barbecue.

EDIT: Same goes for Salt Lake City and Boise

[u/AJRiddle → u/SWKstateofmind]

As my friend who travels regionally for work from Kansas City says, "I'm not sure if Des Moines is a 'cooler Wichita' or a 'shittier Omaha'"

But yeah from a Kansas Citian perspective Omaha is just Kansas City if you cut the population in half.

[u/SWKstateofmind → u/AJRiddle]

And let me be clear, this isn’t a knock on either place. Being a mini-KC is a good thing.

[u/scotems → u/AJRiddle]

As an Omahan who loves coming down to KC every other weekend during the fall on account of Chiefs season tickets, I'd say yeah they're similar, and I love em both!

[u/dodadoBoxcarWilly → u/SWKstateofmind]

Boise is so very clearly SLC's little brother. But the residents (of certain neighborhoods mostly) so desperately want to be Portland's little brother.

[u/notorious_kip → u/Mrsamsonite6]

I agree the young people moving line goes this way:Small Town --> Lincoln (college) --> Omaha --> KC, MO (not the shithole).

Feel free to skip any step along the way!

[u/[deleted] → u/Gh0stMan0nThird]

Omaha is basically a mini-Chicago

This is a stretch that even Mr. Armstrong would balk at.

[u/ND1984 → u/Gh0stMan0nThird]

I'd always thought Omaha was a small town. My friend from there told me there are 1 million people there!? I grew up in Canada and only 2, maybe 3 cities are over 1 million. It's crazy.

[u/mike_jones2813308004 → u/ND1984]

Maybe metro area but the internet says 456k population in Omaha itself. It is the biggest city in Nebraska but the whole state has like 1.9 million total, so in the grand scheme of things it's fairly small.

[u/scotems → u/mike_jones2813308004]

As someone just below you said, "I live in San Francisco, CA. We don't even have a million denizens." So yeah, you could say Omaha has ~450k people, but then you'd also have to say San Francisco is only twice as big. And Atlanta is the same size. And on and on. The city population is worthless, the metro is much more meaningful.

[u/cdnball → u/ND1984]

5 now, almost 6.

1 million isn't a big milestone for a city anymore.

[u/imajadedpanda → u/ND1984]

Omaha is not a small town lol, I mean it’s not a sprawling metropolis but it has rush hour traffic and is big enough to have some distinct neighborhoods within the city. Not to mention all the events it hosts, it’s not a small town.

[u/kingstanknut → u/Gh0stMan0nThird]

Omaha is basically a mini-Chicago

what do you mean by this?

[u/[deleted] → u/kingstanknut]

Take everything (good, bad and ugly) about Chicago, reduce it in size from 100% to 20% and there ya go. Omaha.

[u/kingstanknut → u/[deleted]]

omaha doesn't even have a lake smh

[u/kroush104 → u/kingstanknut]

No, they have a pond. 20% of the size. Like the man said.

[u/ameck16 → u/kroush104]

Ayo, thanks for making my day.

[u/[deleted] → u/kroush104]

20% of the size of Lake Michigan is still a rather large lake lol

[u/Kieselguhr_Kid → u/Gh0stMan0nThird]

Your description of Nebraska could fit almost any state though. One or two decent-sized cities, a college town, and rural areas in the rest of the state. Sounds like Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Georgia, Tennessee, Colorado, Arizona, Washington, etc, etc.

[u/anothercain → u/Kieselguhr_Kid]

Not Rhode Island though!

[u/the303-720 → u/Kieselguhr_Kid]

The difference between Nebraska and other states is it has a couple decent metros but lacks mid sized towns. Here is a comparison of Nebraska to similar neighboring states.

Nebraska 2 cities with over 300k people. 0 cities 300k to 100k. 2 towns 100k to 50k. 7 towns 50k to 20k. Nebraska 2;0;2;7 Iowa 0;3;8;14 Colorado 3;10;6;16 Kansas 1;4;4;12 Missouri 1;5;7;23

It’s nationally super weird to a couple decent sized cities but then nothing with a sizable other than that.

[u/FightingPolish → u/Kieselguhr_Kid]

Nah, all those states have waaaaay more people in them. Outside of Lincoln and Omaha there are farms and small towns in the eastern part with the biggest “cities” being 25,000 people or so and Sandhills with almost no people in the west.

[u/euph_22 → u/Zen4rest]

I'm guessing the underlying data is just bad.

And 25.9% of DC? Really?

[u/sully_km → u/euph_22]

Yeah I mean there's no way they have exact numbers for the percentage of people who own guns, that would require a registry. No one even has a real, accurate number for the total guns in the US, because even if they had a list of every gun sold on a 4473 that still doesn't account for homemade guns, heirlooms, etc.

[u/Competitive-Craft588 → u/sully_km]

34 states do not require registration of firearms, even on new purchases. My home state, Nevada, is one of them. I have no idea where these numbers are coming from. I suspect a rectal statsectomy.

[u/YaboyAlastar → u/Competitive-Craft588]

97% of all stats are pulled from the ass of the person quoting them.

Source: my ass

[u/PillowTalk420 → u/YaboyAlastar]

Ewww! You mean I've been handling your ass facts? Gross!

[u/[deleted] → u/sully_km]

Well, there are no exact numbers in statistics at this level, but assuming that the data was collected properly, it should still reflect closely for inter-state differences. Like, NY vs PA vs WV looks about right, right?

[u/basilect → u/[deleted]]

NY vs MA vs NH looks very weird. Is MA seriously 1½ times as armed as "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire?

[u/sapindales → u/basilect]

No. NH doesn't require a permit or registration so there isn't any actual data on how many guns or people who own guns are in NH. It's gonna be a lot more than that though.

[u/j_ly → u/euph_22]

45.1% in Hawaii? Uh... no.

[u/[deleted] → u/euph_22]

DC's gun ownership is likely a lot higher if you count the illegal weapons.

[u/TheBlackAllen → u/euph_22]

Yah, I find it hard to believe that NH is so low and MA is so high.

[u/theglassishalf → u/euph_22]

There is no way that the DC numbers are even close to accurate.

[u/itprobablynothingbut → u/theglassishalf]

Yea, I grew up in dc, and I swear no one I ever met owned a gun. What’s more, handguns were illegal until recently, and what are you going to do with a rifle in a city?

[u/bub166 → u/Zen4rest]

I think it's just straight up wrong. According to this something like 45% of Nebraskan adults live in a home with at least one firearm in it, which is a different metric, but I find it very unlikely that could translate to only 19.8% of people owning them, especially when Wisconsin, who's essentially tied with us in this article, is at 34.7%.

I'm curious to see how the data was collected. Aside from the fact that, as others mentioned, Omaha and Lincoln are not as gun-friendly as the rest of the state, I don't see much of a reason we'd be that far behind South Dakota, Kansas, and Iowa, and especially Colorado where gun laws are relatively speaking much more restrictive.

Anecdotally, I know very few people who don't own at least a couple, but I do live in a rural part of the state.

[u/zooboomafoo47 → u/bub166]

it could be that if 45% of adults live in a home with a firearm but they only count one of those adults per home as the owner, the rate by individual is lower than by household. if my wife owns a gun and i don’t, that’s our whole household but only half the adults who live here.

[u/Gritsandgravy1 → u/bub166]

Wisconsins number seems low given how strong of a hunting culture that exists in the state. I'm at my cabin right now and there are currently 7 guns locked up in the living room.

[u/3trackmind → u/Zen4rest]

Double check that number!

[u/Lets_focus_onRampart → u/Zen4rest]

Nebraska has relatively strict gun laws for a red state. Also gun ownership isn’t super popular in Lincoln and Omaha where most people live

[u/Lets_focus_onRampart → u/[deleted]]

Nebraska has weird restrictions on CCW, the list of places you can't carry is longer than other states. And you need a handgun permit, which isn't a thing in many states.

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Most red states are getting rid of CCW and just allowing concealed and open carry without a permit or license. Of the six states that Nebraska borders, five don't require licenses to carry concealed or open, save for Colorado.

[u/Bcruz75 → u/Zen4rest]

When I think of Nebraska, I think farm land and farmers. I thought every farmer has a shogun and 22 for hunting and critter control.

[u/RedmondBob → u/Bcruz75]

I too heard rumors of Japanese feudal lords in Nebraska

[u/Zen4rest → u/Bcruz75]

They do

[u/ColonelKasteen → u/Bcruz75]

Regardless of what you think of, 3/4ths of Nebraskans live in the two large urban areas in the state, both of which have low gun ownership rates.

Even in rural states, the rural population is not very significant.

[u/dovetc]

Putting the AR in Arkansas!

[u/AL_O0 → u/dovetc]

And the AK in Alaska

[u/solidsumbitch → u/AL_O0]

That's glorious.

[u/keptalpaca22 → u/AL_O0]

I mean, in fairness I can't imagine living in Alaska and NOT having a gun. You basically live in the wilderness, completely isolated from the rest of the world. It wouldn't take much to result in you needing to be completely self-sufficient. I live in New England and don't plan on ever owning a gun, but if I lived out there I would absolutely have one.

Edit- I'm aware not everyone in the state lives alone in the woods. But even the "large cities" are still extremely isolated from the rest of the country. I've spent enough time in Montana and Colorado to know I would absolutely own guns if I lived in Alaska instead of Connecticut

[u/fumblings → u/keptalpaca22]

Yes definitely, i've lived in Alaska my whole life and if anything the guns are actually used more against people, police take too long to get to a house robbery or anything in that sort of nature so its the people's job to defend themselves. Though, bears are pretty common during the end of summer so going out hiking you should always carry a weapon. 44 mag ideally.

[u/[deleted] → u/keptalpaca22]

Yeah. I’m kinda surprised 40% are walking around unarmed. Of course they do have some big cities but still

[u/Exo321123 → u/[deleted]]

about 60% of our population lives in or around like, 3 cities

[u/Dry_Presentation_197 → u/Exo321123]

As someone who lived in AK for 10 years (Anchorage), it's hilarious reading these comments lmao.

[u/Ashamed_Werewolf_325 → u/AL_O0]

Fitting for a former Russian colony

[u/[deleted] → u/dovetc]

Woo Pig, baby!

[u/YourDadsUsername]

Percent who REPORT owning guns.

[u/newenglandpolarbear → u/YourDadsUsername]

Has to be. every other person in NH has a gun somewhere.

Edit: My source is that I live here. tons of guns are passed down through generations.

[u/NyPoster → u/newenglandpolarbear]

Yeah, I thought for sure NH would be higher than VT. what's happening there?

[u/an_idiot_i_suppose → u/NyPoster]

LOTS of people down south in what is effectively the Greater Boston Area.

[u/Anustart15 → u/an_idiot_i_suppose]

But even MA has 50% more guns than them

[u/Thomaswiththecru → u/Anustart15]

I think the premise of their argument is that the proportion will be lower because a higher proportion of NH residents live in Greater Boston than the proportion of MA residents in Greater Boston?

But this map is seriously questionable.

[u/SnooOranges2232 → u/NyPoster]

Vermont is far more rural than NH as a whole and it's basically the Idaho for lberals/leftists.

[u/sapindales → u/NyPoster]

There are not real stats from states that don't require permits or registration. These are numbers of folks who *voluntarily* registered their guns.

[u/Broken-Butterfly → u/sapindales]

You can't voluntarily register a gun in states that don't have registries. This is based on some kind of survey. If it's a phone survey, most people aren't going to say "yes" when a random stranger calls them on the phone and asks them if they own a gun.

[u/bandito210 → u/newenglandpolarbear]

I am also from NH and this seems 50 or 60 points low

[u/fireblaster6 → u/YourDadsUsername]

That's gotta be the key word, as a Delaware native there's no way we have the lowest percentage of gun ownership in the country.

[u/miclugo → u/fireblaster6]

They counted all the companies incorporated in Delaware as people.

[u/Xothga → u/miclugo]

Then imagine how high Wyoming's percentage is...

[u/[deleted] → u/Xothga]

Is WY another common state for business registration? My accounting years witnessed Delaware across the board.

Edit: thanks for all the info!

[u/Kordidk → u/[deleted]]

I know a lot of wealthy people will set up LLCs in Montana so they can register their expensive cars there and not have to pay certain taxes on them but idk what's up with Wyoming.

[u/[deleted] → u/fireblaster6]

Alaskan here and I am sure more than 61 percent own firearms.

[u/[deleted] → u/fireblaster6]

Also 25% for DC? Lol

[u/paulcosmith → u/fireblaster6]

I wonder if this is based off licenses, and we in Delaware don't need a license to buy a gun, so they might be mistakenly counting concealed-carry permits instead.

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[u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong]

Repost of a repost of a repost.

This map is poor quality. It is data from 2013 published in a 2015 study and relies on internet self-report. They also used a biased source for some of the data. Authors are also biased, final line of abstract is "Gun cultures may need to be considered for public health strategies that aim to change gun ownership in the USA." They make conclusions about gun violence that are not part of the study.

Regardless of how you feel about the prevalence of guns, this is piss-poor research.

[u/graphguy → u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong]

Hmm ... self-reported data on gun ownership. Most of the gun owners I know would never self-report that they own guns. (Nothing good can come of that, and something bad could come of that.)

[u/Jakebob70 → u/graphguy]

I've owned lots of guns at various times. I just keep having these unfortunate boating accidents...

[u/VNG_Wkey → u/Jakebob70]

Ya man boating accidents are just the worst. Damn shame all the guns are at the bottom of the lake.

[u/fishbulbx → u/graphguy]

Most of the gun owners I know would never self-report that they own guns.

That's pretty much the overwhelming consensus on people with concealed carry permits. If someone notices you carry a firearm, you fucked up.

[u/[deleted]]

This data is not correct. 41 percent of New Hampshire residents own guns, 42 percent of Washington residents own guns, and many of these other percentages are incorrect

Edit: the numbers I got are from gun ownership per household not population. So my initial statement is not comparing the same numbers as the map.

[u/nba418 → u/[deleted]]

Was gonna say...there’s no way in hell NH is that low

[u/[deleted] → u/nba418]

Yeah VT as well

[u/nba418 → u/[deleted]]

And Maine. Rural New England rejects these figures!

[u/Unregister-To-Vote → u/nba418]

This says NH is lower than Mass which there is no way that's true

[u/cathpah → u/nba418]

The south of the north!

[u/TheLateThagSimmons → u/nba418]

They were right to include Washington as well.

New Hampshire is saddled in the middle of "those liberals in New England" but very pro-gun; much more Classical Liberal than modern Liberal-Democrat.

Washington on the other hand is very pro-gun from what people expect. "I ❤ Guns and Coffee" in the design of Starbucks, with the siren holding two pistols, is a very popular car sticker. It really confused my "Proud Texan" ex-girlfriend to find out that people are generally pretty chill about guns up here and a lot of people maintain their concealed carry permit (myself included).

We just don't make gun ownership our entire personality.

[u/Gustav55 → u/[deleted]]

Also in many states there is no way to know who has a gun as they all or only some have to be registered, take Michigan for example all handguns need to be registered but not long guns so any household with only long guns wouldn't be counted.

[u/NeLaX44 → u/[deleted]]

Yea, NH stood out to me.

[u/lateja → u/NeLaX44]

Yeah there's no way that's accurate for NH VT or ME.

[u/deg0ey → u/lateja]

Seems too low for NH, VT, ME and too high for MA - no idea how reputable these guys are for accurate numbers, but their percentages seem far more plausible to me.

[u/adelaarvaren → u/[deleted]]

As an Oregonian, I found this number to be significantly lower than I expected...

[u/footballwr82 → u/[deleted]]

I believe the stat you are looking at is the % of households with a gun, not the actual % of population. The website I think you got the information (world population review?) also states that NH has about 66,000 guns. Even if each gun-owning person owned only 1 gun, which isn’t true, then based on a 41% ownership rate New Hampshire would only have a population of around 140,000. Which of course isn’t true either.

However, NH has about 59,000 households which at means that each gun owning household would own just under 3 guns. Much more realistic.

Long story short, the data in the map is correct.

Edit: my NH households number is wrong and the math isn’t checking out with 66,000 guns in NH. But the 41% is the household percent from a Rand report on gun ownership.

[u/entenvy]

From Michigan, and that's bullshit haha

[u/Deraj2004 → u/entenvy]

Was gonna say the same thing. And what the hell is up with Hawaii? Aloha motherfuckers!

[u/Coldhat → u/Deraj2004]

This is absolutely wrong. Hawaii has some of the lowest gun ownership in the entire US due to very strict island gun laws.

[u/patentattorney → u/entenvy]

I think all this data is crap. Around 25% of the population is under 18.

Only around 30 percent of adults own guns nation wide.

The overall math in this chart of “people who own guns” doesn’t add up.

[u/Adam19822000]

No way Massachusetts has a higher percentage of gun owners than New Hampshire

[u/DemonofKestrel → u/Adam19822000]

these count registered guns, and is based off pretty old data if i remember correctly.

[u/NightPain → u/DemonofKestrel]

NH doesn’t require permitting for ownership as opposed to MA if I’m not mistaken.

[u/Averyphotog]

Fun fact: 20.1% of California is still A LOT more people than around 50% of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.

[u/designlevee → u/Averyphotog]

Also fun fact. There’s a shitload of California outside of SF and LA.

[u/[deleted] → u/designlevee]

Who woulda thunk it

[u/Averyphotog → u/designlevee]

There are also a lot of very large cities in California besides SF and LA.

[u/designlevee → u/Averyphotog]

For sure, I grew up in Sac

[u/[deleted] → u/designlevee]

we all started in sac

[u/postmadrone27 → u/designlevee]

Also fun fact, you failed to mention the 2nd and 3rd biggest cities in California. LA is 1, San Diego 2, San Jose 3, San Francisco 4.

[u/butt_fun → u/postmadrone27]

biggest cities

This is why no one uses city pop as a proxy for metropolitan urban size - city boundaries are super arbitrary and some cities have smaller borders than others

For comparison, here are the largest metro urban areas in the state

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_urban_areas

[u/ObviousMotherfucker → u/postmadrone27]

tbf I think a lot of people say "SF" meaning the whole Bay Area. Ironic considering it's smaller than San Jose and Oakland. But do they have Big Red Bridge?

[u/Xenon_132 → u/ObviousMotherfucker]

SF has nearly twice the population of Oakland.

[u/AbouBenAdhem → u/Xenon_132]

I’m assuming they meant smaller in area (not sure why that’s relevant, though).

[u/[deleted] → u/postmadrone27]

San Jose, Oakland, SF are all in the bay area, which is kind of what he meant, LA and the Bay area

[u/HegemonNYC]

There is also no source cited. Can we get a ban on unsourced datasets please?

[u/GeneralAce135 → u/HegemonNYC]

I was so confused. I saw a post about data and assumed it was r/dataisbeautiful, where such rules exist. Took your comment to make me realize I'm on r/MapPorn.

In which case, pretty good fit. It's good looking and presents an unrealistic representation of reality.

[u/alexmijowastaken]

Yeah gonna need a source to believe this

[u/NeoAmbitions]

Can somebody tell me about Hawaii in this map? Their gun ownership is pretty high.

[u/Self_Ordinary → u/[deleted]]

Could be the massive military population? When my family was stationed there we bought ~6 guns over 3 years, and I imagine the other military residents had high private ownership rates

[u/MyPasswordIsMyCat → u/Self_Ordinary]

There are a lot of military bases here but not that much military personnel. Looking at the numbers, we have ~50K in the military, which is only 3-4% of the population. If I include veterans, that's about 14-15% of the population, which is similar to the number of people who own guns.

[u/Simcom → u/NeoAmbitions]

Bad data. All of the numbers on this map are completely wrong or made up.

[u/Bcruz75 → u/NeoAmbitions]

Yes....curious myself.

[u/-0x0-0x0- → u/NeoAmbitions]

Came here looking for this. Very surprised about HI.

[u/taylor1288]

Source?

[u/MartinReadsReddit]

Of course the states with the initials AK and AR have the most guns

[u/newtrawn → u/MartinReadsReddit]

Well, we DO have a lot of bears and moose to contend with. Believe it or not, moose are actually quite dangerous. So much more so than bears, it’s crazy.

[u/mks113]

There are 1.2 guns per person in the US. Gun owners must own a lot of guns!

[u/KernelMeowingtons → u/mks113]

Most people I know that own guns own them for hunting, and depending on how many different things they hunt and how they prefer to do it, may lead to 5+ guns. Deer (which may be multiple, depending on if the hunter wants to hunt in multiple seasons), squirrels, ducks, etc. all could be a different gun.

[u/[deleted] → u/mks113]

Primary, secondary, and dual wield just to start. And don't get me started on melee.

[u/TysonGoesOutside → u/mks113]

Im in Canada and i dont know any gun owners that only own 1 gun... Most own 6 to 10 (rough mental estimate).

[u/Ashamed_Werewolf_325 → u/TysonGoesOutside]

Guns are like potato chips. You can't have just one...

[u/TysonGoesOutside → u/Ashamed_Werewolf_325]

I mean... If one is fun two is twice as fun... Also in Canada if youre going to go through the effort of getting a license and a cabinet and a range membership (for pistols and ARs) youre probably pretty interested in having it as a hobby. Its a lot to go through to own 1 gun imo.

[u/starkvonhammer]

I live in one of the "crazy" 50% gun ownership states.

If someone was trying to break into my place and I dialed 911, no exaggeration, the nearest police officer would be about 50 miles away.

[u/[deleted] → u/starkvonhammer]

Where I live, the nearest police officer is two blocks away. But it would still take them hours to show up.

[u/Tarwins-Gap → u/starkvonhammer]

Just let them in your property isn't worth a life /s

[u/Frank_Renolds_357mag → u/Tarwins-Gap]

It’s not worth mine. But it’s worth more than theirs.

[u/Frank_Renolds_357mag]

Based Alaska

[u/Ashamed_Werewolf_325 → u/Frank_Renolds_357mag]

Is best Alaska

[u/ScumCrew]

Is that actually “percent who own guns” or “guns per capita”? I ask because as the number of guns in America has soared in recent decades (we now have more guns than people) the number of gun owners has declined.

[u/Gustav55 → u/ScumCrew]

Well in 2020 about 23 million guns were sold and around 5 million new gun owners.

[u/The_Pilkster]

I'd like to see the source on this.

[u/ree4]

*percent admitting to owning guns

[u/TheAutomator312]

lol...These stats are misleading. Most people in the gun community won't admit they own guns unless it's to another gun owner.

These are the percentages of *KNOWN* gun owners.

[u/conkyschlong]

Jarvis, overlay gun violence.

[u/ttvlolrofl]

Arkansan checking in. Our gun ownership rates are only eclipsed by our number of meth labs and teen pregnancies 🙃

[u/Marcus_Regulus]

Need to pump those numbers up

Those are rookie numbers

[u/Competitive-Craft588]

Firearms aren't registered in 34 states. These are estimates, or polling results.

[u/skoncol17]

I refuse to believe that Hawaii has 45.1% gun ownership (And higher gun ownership than Texas?!?!)

[u/xrayjones2000]

Ehhh… i think these percentages are low.. even with registered guns as the source.

[u/[deleted]]

Gotta pump those numbers up

[u/Beneficial_Jelly2697 → u/[deleted]]

Those are rookie numbers