Gun Friendly States Ranking

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What is everyone's ranking of gun-friendly states? I think there is a lot to consider:

-Ease of buying guns
-Lack of waiting periods
-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license
-Reaction when open carrying/seen with a gun in public
-Tolerance of NFA items
-Allowance of high-capacity magazines
-Ease of transfers or sales from one person to another (non-FFL transactions)

I would say that Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia are at the top while California, New York, Hawaii, and Maryland and towards the bottom. I'd love to see a 1-50 ranking if anyone is that dedicated/bored.
 
Alaska, Arizona, and Wyoming are way more gun friendly than your top picks. Add New Jersey to your bottom picks.
 
10 being the best
1 being the worst

Kentucky

10-Ease of buying guns
10-Lack of waiting periods
8-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license
10-Reaction when open carrying/seen with a gun in public
10-Tolerance of NFA items
10-Allowance of high-capacity magazines
10-Ease of transfers or sales from one person to another (non-FFL transactions)
.
 
Yep - I don't understand why Kansas gets passed over....

State law allows concealed carry for residents without the need for a permit.
NFA items allowed - just pay your tax stamp to the Feds
No waiting periods unless your NCIS doesn't pass
Majority of the population support the 2nd amendment.

If you are a gun person, KS may be the place for you.
 
Wouldn't it look like the Brady Campaign state rankings/scores in reverse order?
 
pretty happy with new mexico.
open carry.
no problem selling to any person.
had to fill out the stupid form to buy from a gun shop but that took longer than the phone call to county hall to approve the sale.
gotta take a course to concealed carry but concealed in any vehical is legal.
 
Alabama:

-Ease of buying guns - Easy
-Lack of waiting periods- None, no waiting except for NICS.
-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license - Minutes
-Reaction when open carrying/seen with a gun in public - No big deal
-Tolerance of NFA items - Just fine
-Allowance of high-capacity magazines - Just fine
-Ease of transfers or sales from one person to another (non-FFL transactions) - Easy
 
Washington State

10-Ease of buying guns

10-Lack of waiting periods (with carry permit, long guns)
1-Lack of waiting period (without permit, 10 days mandatory)

10-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license

6-Tolerance of NFA items (10-Silencers, 7-SBRs (no form 1), 0-SBSs)

10-Allowance of high-capacity magazines

0-Ease of transfers or sales from one person to another (non-FFL transactions) (I-594 requires all transfers via FFL)
 
Based on the list posted above,

Arizona
Alaska
Georgia
Utah
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Montana
Kansas
Florida
Missouri
Alabama
South Dakota
Texas
South Carolina
Tennessee

I wonder why South Carolina scores so low. The only thing on the list that is "difficult" in SC is open carry. A one day class required to apply for a concealed weapons permit followed by a background check doesn't seem over the top. So with a check next to the other criteria the OP posted it seems SC should be closer to the middle unless the ranking list posted is biased in favor of open carry/prejudiced against keeping your business covered up.
 
Vermont is more than just concealed carry allowed it would probably be close to number 1 if not number 1 most gun friendly state. Only zipguns and silencers (they are concerned about hunters jacking deer) are banned.

New York and New Jersey are probably the worst I don't know which one is worse NY with it's outright unreasonable firearms laws or New Jersey making bb gun (considered a handgun in New Jersey) carriers into felons and requiring the registration and licensing of musket pistols. I have yet to hear of a musket drive by.

I hear things about DC being bad although I am not too familiar.
 
PA is very friendly regarding CCW. Shall issue state, open carry legal. When I got my permit it took all of 10 minutes.
 
Other than the last two on the list Colorado is very gun friendly. And since the last two are not being enforced by anyone...

Our mag ban is stupid and unenforceable and therefore it is not enforced. There is simply no way to prove you didn't have that mag before the ban went into effect. Nor is there any way to really prove illegal transfers unless you are selling to the feds/cops in the first place. And if you are doing that chances are you were on the radar long before for a number of other things and they figured, "While we are at it...".

NFA is easy to do, we are shall issue, open carry is everywhere, buying from a dealer is just the 4473 and check, we have no waiting period. So yeah, outside of Denver/ Boulder we are really very pro gun. Too bad the state gets lead around by two cities...
 
Michigan has its drawbacks, but I'd generally pretty gun friendly.
-Ease of buying guns: 9, only because of the pistol purchase permit.
-Lack of waiting periods: 10, no waiting period.
-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license: 9, a little expensive, but not too bad.
-Reaction when open carrying/seen with a gun in public: 8, legal in most places (except pistol free zones, exempted for CPL). Bigger cities cops don't know and have arrested OCers.
-Tolerance of NFA items: 9.5, all NFA allowed, minus half a point because we can't hunt with silencers.
-Allowance of high-capacity magazines: 10, absolutely no restriction on mag capacity, except for the standard hunting capacity laws.
-Ease of transfers or sales from one person to another (non-FFL transactions): 8, handguns need a pistol purchase permit, or a pistol sales form for CPL holders. It's our little way for UBCs and handgun registration.
 
I'd also add to Robert's post that CO. has as few restrictions on CC as I think I've seen in any state. http://www.handgunlaw.us/states/colorado.pdf I would certainly do some research at places like handgunlaw.us before making assumption while traveling to other states.
CO. also honors 32 states and is honored in all but 16 (many are the ones you'd expect)
I'm not a fan of the stupid laws recently enacted and encourage all to join the fight to have them repealed but having traveled with a gun to many of the 50 states I have found CO to be void of the silly, gotcha, prohibited areas that require one to shuffle the gun from their body to secure storage as they weave around churches, banks, amusement parks, hospitals, county/state fairs, restaurants and bars, parks and even highway rest areas as seen in so many other states.
I think the G&A list is pretty screwed up in respect to actually using and possessing a firearm on a day to day basis for defense, hunting, or protection of property.
 
10 being the best
1 being the worst

Kentucky

10-Ease of buying guns
10-Lack of waiting periods
8-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license
10-Reaction when open carrying/seen with a gun in public
10-Tolerance of NFA items
10-Allowance of high-capacity magazines
10-Ease of transfers or sales from one person to another (non-FFL transactions)
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Very good, but let me show another example:

10 being the best
1 being the worst

Arizona

10-Ease of buying guns
10-Lack of waiting periods
10-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license. A license is available, but not required.
10-Reaction when open carrying/seen with a gun in public
10-Tolerance of NFA items
10-Allowance of high-capacity magazines
10-Ease of transfers or sales from one person to another (non-FFL transactions) No restrictions

And add:

10-Gun registration. Prohibited by law

All "10's" It can't get better then this.
 
10 being the best
1 being the worst

New York

8-Ease of buying guns...
Long gun same as anywhere else, some paperwork to put pistols on your license.

5-Lack of waiting periods...getting a pistol license can take years

5-Ease of receiving a concealed carry license...
Some judges give them, some don't.

10-Reaction when open carrying/seen with a gun in public...
"Is that for sale?" We have REDNECKS here.

2-Tolerance of NFA items...AOW shotguns can be registered as pistols. You can have full auto if you're an SOT dealer. No silencers or short barrels.

3-Allowance of high-capacity magazines...
Dealers can possess them. You can register magazines 50+ years old for a C&R gun.

2-Ease of transfers or sales...all must go through an FFL; some counties allow private sales without background checks if both parties have pistol licenses.

Averaging this, I gave NY a 5; it's definitely in the bottom five or six of all U.S. states and territories.
 
Ohio:
  • State preemption of local gun laws
  • No owner licensing
  • No firearms registration
  • No restrictions on private sales
  • No waiting periods
  • No "assault weapon" nonsense
  • No magazine capacity limits
  • "Shall issue" CCW
  • Legal open carry
  • Relatively few statutory CPZs
  • Home of the National Matches at Camp Perry
  • Home of the Benchrest "Super Shoot"
  • Robust and active gun owner rights organizations
I'm from Chicago. Ohio is the promised land.
 
I think AZ is definitely the best on the list but beyond that most states have little quirks that they impose. Like I said, take a look at the individual state and decide which quirks you can live with. AZ has evolved to the state they are, they weren't always like this.
 
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