Worst States to own a firearm!

Illinois is still significantly worse than NY. So is Massachussetts. Upstate NY is reasonably free, but we get a bad rap because of NYC.

Anyone who thinks NY is the worst hasnt traveled much.

DC by far. Noone has more Draconian laws. Worse than NYC and Cook County combined. It's only legal to have certain guns in your home, disassembled!, among many other restrictions.

Since I live in MD and MD gun laws sucks, I vote for that

It really depends on the criteria. Sad to say that if CCW is a priority or a high cap gun, or whatever it will vary by state.

DC is not a state. It should not be in the poll.

Why is CA winning? At least there is no FOID..I was able to get most of the guns that interested me no problem....and my ex-gf got a CCW in El Dorado county...cant get those in IL.

The FOID sucks along with no carry but at least there are no banned guns and no banned lists.

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Not yet.

Why CT?

Yes you need a permit to buy a handgun, but once you have it you can buy as many as you want, no wait...your permit is also your CCW.

We can also buy ARs, AK's, even full auto.

We might be sandwiched in between the three dumbest, most pathetic domiciles in the land (NY NJ MASS) but we still have rights here!



what about MD? ILL?

lame poll.

Guys, MD is definitely not gun friendly, but to put it in the same class as NJ and IL is completely wrong.

Yes, MD has the assault pistol ban and the handgun roster, but it is still class III friendly and their is NO semi-auto ban as a previous poster mentioned.

There's no FOIC like Illinois and the assault weapons laws in NJ and CA are profoundly more restrictive than here.

If you don't like the laws here, do something about it.

Massachusetts is the second worst state to live in beside California. We have mandatory licensing for all firearms, and even mace. All licenses are at the discretion of the issuing LEO. We in Mass can CCW but licensing is very restrictive. Restricted handgun ownership. Many people are denied a firearm license because of minor run ins with the police when very young. Mass is really in the top four worst states for firearm ownership. It should be on the list. And what is up with Colorado and Ohio on the list This poll seems to be written by someone that does not know gun laws in the state he posted.

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Colorado is up there because theres alot of legislation on the table that will change alot of things.

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Please back this statement up! I want links to this so called "legislation on the table that will change alot of things." *** are you talking about?! Just because the idiots elected a liberal POS governer doesn't mean CO is becoming CA. Comparing CO to CA and the other ANTI (AWB and no concealed carry) states you have listed is comparing apples to oranges. Co has no "AWB" and is a "shall issue state" I can buy any gun I want and can carry almost anywhere in the state.

Put the crack pipe down! You have no clue what you are talking about

When did D.C become a state

Nonetheless it gets my vote

I picked IL. CA at least has over 40K CCW permits...IL has zero (I don't count aldermen and political favors as a CCW permit).

Why isn't Hawaii on the list?

Illinois is still significantly worse than NY. So is Massachussetts. Upstate NY is reasonably free, but we get a bad rap because of NYC.

Anyone who thinks NY is the worst hasnt traveled much.

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Doesn't the Sullivan Act apply to the entire state? I can't think of a more restrictive statewide handgun law.

As an Illinois resident I would still say California is worse than us. The FOID sucks along with no carry but at least there are no banned guns and no banned lists.

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...yet.

Colorado is up there because theres alot of legislation on the table that will change alot of things.

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Even if all of the current anti-gun bills were to pass, Colorado would STILL be a better state for gun rights than Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Virginia or Pennsylvania.

We have un fettered NFA ownership, CCW with very little restrictions (no-guns signs carry no legal weight, you can carry into banks, churches, bars ...you can drink and carry, you can CCW in your car Vermont/Alaska style, no registration, no waiting periods)

Only downsides in Colorado are an AWB within the Denver city limits, no carry on permits issued from a state other than the one you live in (which isn't legal in most CCW states) and now your CCW status will show up when the po-po run your DL (of course we still are under no legal obligation to tell the cops we're carrying).

But at least in Cali you can sit and 'puff the magic dragon' until your brains are swiss cheese. Now THAT IS FREEDOM!

Here in Illinois it's more like Nazi Germany--All things are prohibited unless they are expressly permited (and permits are NOT being issued).


And the 'lawmakers' feel the need to CONSTANTLY MAKE NEW LAWS that will never be enforced but that a law abiding citizen must be abreast of. Bizarre 'feel good' laws no one really ever thought through from an 'end user' perspective. Honestly, have any arrests been made for the new AWB in Cook County? Did anyone notice? You'd think that a thoughtful fascist state would at least SEND A NOTICE OUT when it changed the rules--but it doesn't even do THAT.

Hawaii, but it's not in the poll.

Comparing the laws here is my opinion:
Washington DC is the worst on the list.
As far as states go, Illinois is the worst.

I voted for California, but even I gotta admit that there is something wrong with Illinois.

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DC (and NYC/CHI) is the no brainer, it really shouldn't even be on the list, IMO, because it's so blatantly over the top bad, and yet limited in scope.

Ohio & Colorado aren't the most friendly states, but they don't deserve to be on the hostile list, especially given Ohio's recent rounds of reforms.

Objectively, it's a close tie between NJ & IL for most gun hostile, with NYstate having honorable mention due to their handgun hostility.

The things that separates NJ & IL from all the other gun hostile states is the practical impossibility of obtaining a carry permit, and the necessity of obtaining a FID/FOID for any sort of gun at all. In all the other states except MD, there's a 50/50 chance of getting a permit depending on where you live, and CT has been de-facto shall issue since the early 70's, predating Florida's reforms.


At the end of the day though, it's IL as the all time grandaddy gun hostile state. The two things worse than NJ is that the FOID expires, whereas the FID is good for life, which potentially exposes gun owners to risk of arrest & etc if they stop renewing their paperwork. The other thing is the lack of state pre-emption, which means that any coffee klatch of noisesome old biddies can get together and ram something through town hall to deprive you of your civil and human rights.

Just go to the Brady Campaign website and check the "grades" they give to your state. If you got an A, congrats, youre the worst state. Worst gun states are, as others have stated, California, Illinois, Massachussetts.

Regarding NY:

Doesn't the Sullivan Act apply to the entire state?

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Yes, but NY permits are also CHL permits with no separate application neccessary. No class is required to get a permit. And many counties in upstate NY are, for all intents and purposes, shall-issue regions. NY got a B from the Bradys... so we're bad, but a lot more pro-gun than the above-mentioned travesties.