Gun ownership by state

[sofbak]

Gun ownership rates by state:

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/51/

I was momentarily surprised at #1 til I thought about.

Check out Miranda Lambert's ccw rig....

[Hugga Nugga]

I know a lot of people who have no official paper trail from which to use when "calculating" these numbers. Don't know the methodology, but I am sure the numbers are a lot higher than the study would reflect.

[17+1]

I thought this was posted before...when I read through it I think it was NFA items or something like that...maybe I misread, but I seem to recall that data was questionable.

[Jimi Jah]

With all the home mades and 80% there is no way to know. Only confiscation would be remotely accurate (not counting all the secret closets).

[dwalker]

All these stats are BS, there is literally no way to know how many guns are out there, especially in states like TN where I can buy a gun from a fellow for cash money in the parking lot at Home Depot.

[Milsurp Collector]

Gun ownership rates by state:

Check out Miranda Lambert's ccw open carry rig....

Fixed

I know a lot of people who have no official paper trail from which to use when "calculating" these numbers. Don't know the methodology, but I am sure the numbers are a lot higher than the study would reflect.

"Statistics on gun ownership across the U.S. are hard to nail down; the ATF's National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record is not all-inclusive, and some guns go unregistered.

But "Injury Prevention," a scholarly journal, has released what may be the closest look yet. Their survey, published in 2015, asked a representative sample of 4,000 adults nationwide whether they own firearms. The findings helped the research group estimate gun ownership rates in each state."

And before people who don't understand statistics say that sample size is too small, it isn't. Assuming the 4,000 sample size was distributed in proportion to state population, 480 of the sample would have come from California (California has 12% of the national population, 480 is 12% of 4000). With a total California population of 30 million adults, a sample size of 480 would give you a margin of error of 4.47% with 95% confidence. So with 95% confidence you can say the actual percentage of California adults who own guns is somewhere between 15.3% and 24.3% (19.8% plus minus 4.47%), or somewhere between 4.6 million and 7.3 million California gun owners. 5.9 million California gun owners (19.8%) is the middle of that range.

I thought this was posted before...when I read through it I think it was NFA items or something like that...maybe I misread, but I seem to recall that data was questionable.

No, this study was all firearm ownership, not just NFA items.

[ACfixer]

I'd guess there are more guns in California than any other state. Obviously not more per capita, unless maybe if you threw out the hives of libtards in the no-issue counties. Maybe it's just the crowd I run with, but I don't think so... but everyone I know has a gun in their house so at least in the 'burbs and rural areas the 20%ish stat on California is hogwash.

All these stats are BS, there is literally no way to know how many guns are out there, especially in states like TN where I can buy a gun from a fellow for cash money in the parking lot at Home Depot.

There's that too.

[Milsurp Collector]

I'd guess there are more guns in California than any other state.

Texas has 20 million adults and a gun ownership rate of 35.7% so that comes out to 7.1 million gun owners.

To put California's 6 million gun owners in perspective, the total population of Oregon is 4 million and the total population of Idaho is 1.7 million. So there are more gun owners in California than the combined total population of Oregon and Idaho.

Maybe it's just the crowd I run with, but I don't think so... but everyone I know has a gun in their house so at least in the 'burbs and rural areas the 20%ish stat on California is hogwash.

Your sample of "everyone I know" is an example of sampling bias. That's not a representative sample of the population.

Likewise, a member of Moms Demand Action who lives in San Francisco could say "no one I know has a gun in their house so that 20%ish stat on California is hogwash". Both of you could be telling the truth with your statements about the people you know owning or not owning guns, but both samples are biased so your statements about the study result being hogwash are both in error.

[ACfixer]

Your sample of "everyone I know" is an example of sampling bias. That's not a representative sample of the population.

Likewise, a member of Moms Demand Action who lives in San Francisco could say "no one I know has a gun in their house so that 20%ish stat on California is hogwash". Both of you could be telling the truth with your statements about the people you know owning or not owning guns, but both samples are biased so your statements about the study result being hogwash are both in error.

Yeah, I thought I covered that pretty well by stating my sampling is from suburban and rural areas and having to throw out the MDA members and such.

I'd guess there are more guns in California than any other state. Obviously not more per capita, unless maybe if you threw out the hives of libtards in the no-issue counties. Maybe it's just the crowd I run with, but I don't think so... but everyone I know has a gun in their house so at least in the 'burbs and rural areas the 20%ish stat on California is hogwash.

Being a residential HVAC contractor I am in all kinds of houses from all walks of life every day of my life. Trust me, of the houses I go in at least 50% are gun owners. I see stickers, safes, ammo boxes, and even firearms all the time and not just with people that look or vote like me. Perhaps if I would have said "of those I encounter" rather than "everyone I know" it would have carried a little more weight.

[Jimmy's]

Lol, there is NO way they know how many guns there are anywhere.

[Milsurp Collector]

Being a residential HVAC contractor I am in all kinds of houses from all walks of life every day of my life. Trust me, of the houses I go in at least 50% are gun owners. I see stickers, safes, ammo boxes, and even firearms all the time and not just with people that look or vote like me. Perhaps if I would have said "of those I encounter" rather than "everyone I know" it would have carried a little more weight.

Depends on where you live and work. According to your location you live in a relatively rural area (Apple Valley, population 72,000). There are certainly areas of California - mostly less densely populated rural areas - where the gun ownership rate is above 19.8%. But there are other areas - densely populated urban areas where millions of Californians live - where the gun ownership percentage is probably below 19.8%. Because so many people live in those urban areas if their percentage of gun ownership is even a few percentage points below 19.8% it really lowers the overall average.

[rcslotcar]

I own a gun, but the state has no idea how many. I have bought several since 1973, again the state has no idea how many.

[sofbak]

^^^ Careful.... Next thing you know, our legislature will cob up a new law against "ghost" gun owners.

[Librarian]

From the study, linked at the beginning of the CBS pages

YouGov invited 11 471
potential participants, out of which 5392 (47.0%)
started the survey and eventually 4622 (40.3%)
completed the survey. Using the 4622 participants,
propensity score matching with 2010 American
Community Survey sample with selection within
strata by weighted sampling with replacements was
performed to obtain a nationally representative
population. Out of the 4622 respondents, 4000
were matched and identified to be nationally representative.
This study was performed using the 4000
respondents who were identified as a nationally
representative cohort. The survey instrument and
survey methodology are explained in detail in
online supplementary appendix II and III.

Who knows YouGov's selection process?

More wishful thinking - nobody knows who has the guns in the US.

[Two Nuggets]

Lol. Hawaii > Texas?

Fake news!