CHART: GUN OWNERSHIP BY STATE – One State Blows All The Others Away!
June 19, 2015 By
There are a lot of gun owners in America – and those gun owners own a lot of guns!
Chart Below Reveals How Each of the 50 States Compares to Other Countries on Gun Ownership
In the United States of America, the 2nd amendment grants us the “inherent and inalienable right to keep and bear arms for our self-defense, from both criminals and tyrants.” No other nation in the world comes even close to the estimated 300 million firearms owed by civilians in the U.S.
While gun ownership figures vary and are typically underreported, you can see the entire state-by-state gun ownership estimate chart right here, and see which foreign nation most closely matches your own state on firearms ownership. This makes it clear why any aggressor would hesitate at our border. They know that in the U.S. there is:
“a rifle behind every blade of grass and poking out of every single door and window.”
Movato Real Estate compiled some interesting data that compared gun ownership in the 50 states with gun ownership in other countries as outlined below:
We started with a research group in Switzerland called Small Arms Survey and its report “Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.” Among other things, it estimated gun-ownership numbers for 178 countries, including the United States (which it estimates has about 270 million guns).
“We then took the estimate of 88.8 guns per 100 people for the U.S.—which, seven years later, is likely higher—and used it to calculate each state’s estimated gun ownership, based on state populations from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 survey. (Of course, gun-ownership density varies throughout the country, but this number gave us a easy way to come up with comparable figures for all 50 states, since actual state-to-state numbers were not available.)
“Once we had the list of state numbers, we compared each one to Small Arms Survey’s list of countries and respective gun-ownership estimates, logging the nearest match.”
The study revealed that:
- California’s total of 33.08 million guns is closest to China’s 40 million
- Texas’ total of 22.33 million guns is closest to Germany’s 25 million
- New York’s total of 17.2 million guns is closest to Pakistan’s 18 million
source: thefederalistpapers.org
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