The prevalence and location of gun ownership

[MillCreek]

http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2015/06/09/injuryprev-2015-041586.full

Ignoring the kvetching about injury prevention and public health, some interesting estimates on the prevalence and location of gun ownership in the USA.  You are more likely to own a gun if you are a white male over age 55 living in a thinly-populated state.  So in a sense, we are all Tallpine.

[HeroHog]

Less than 50% in Louisiana?!?! Oh yeah, a lot of us have none "because we lost them when we swamped our boats on the bayou..."

[vaskidmark]

The numbers are coming from official sources which cannot take into account the non-official transactions.

Also, those figures are across the total population.  Remove those too young and those otherwise prohibited (even though some of the latter have guns anyway).  Then tell me the percentages.

The surge in younger, and especially younger urban, gun owners is not accounted for since the phenomenon is more recent than the study period.  While more of us may be like Tallpine, there are an increasing number of hipsters (of both sexes) in skinny jeans or yoga pants.

stay safe.

[Ben]

My two points on the survey are:

1) Their somewhat crowd-sourced methodology for sample set collection leaves room for people like me, in states like mine, to say, "Guns? What are those?"

2) While I do not necessarily dispute the percentage for CA (taking into account #1), raw numbers of guns create a different story. Population based vs percentage of population, but I believe the top three states for most guns are TX, CA, FL.

Still, the more valuable story would be, what states do the most to stay out of your beezwax regarding guns?

[Tallpine]

the more valuable story would be, what states do the most to stay out of your beezwax regarding guns?

Alaska
Wyoming
Arizona
Montana
Vermont

 

[MechAg94]

Doesn't the FedGov publish background check numbers state by state?  I know the monthly totals are released.