Poll: The Continental 49. Which State Is the Most Gun Friendly?

I don't understand why you'd list Michigan as "pink". We have Shall Issue. We have NO law prohibiting OC even in places where CC is prohibited.

 

You better hope those blue folks moving in by the thousands form NYC and CA don't turn it blue and introduce an income tax..................

 

Because.......Detroit..........and Whitmer.............

 

Kansas has actually gotten better over the last few years as opposed to many states getting worse. There is very little I can't do in Kansas and I avail myself of those privileges. Even though I don't need the Concealed Carry permit now, I maintain it to make traveling armed easier and to make gun transfers go easily. There is not as much public land open for shooting as there was when I stayed in Arizona for a few weeks. Lots of BLM land and easy access. But, still plenty of shooting space in Kansas

 

Gun (industry) friendly, as in collecting millions of dollars in tax revenue from sales and from employees income is a terrible measuring stick. Iowa in the bottom 3, Massachusetts isn't in the bottom 10, and NH is in the top 10?

 

Very good post. If things go south in November, I will be asking you for good Western Kansas towns to live in ideas.

 

1. It's not my report, but just one I found. I also did mention that I wasn't sure how they factored in the firearms-related jobs and/or industry. They don't really go into that. They only mention that they factored the gun law status for each state by 2x.

However, in looking back I do agree that it does tend to distort some states like Iowa, which must have little to no firearms related jobs while ranking a state like Connecticut at #27 since it still has several major firearms located there. I

I think I'll just delete it.

 

Wisconsin is good. I can own whatever I want or can afford. We have CCW and open carry. I walk into the store, I pick out what gun/guns I want to buy, fill out paperwork, get background check and take the objects of my desire to their new home.

 

Well sorta.

 

I never said anything anout getting hammered; I said you were allowed to consume. In some states you can't even carry into a restaurant if it serves alcohol, let alone consume any.

 

Those maps just illustrate which states citizens have loose mouths and blab to poll takers. No gun owner I know in Texas has ever answered any such survey or poll. It ain’t anybody’s business, especially not some anonymous voice on the telephone or Internet.
Nobody has any true idea what % of the households or people within a state actually own firearms & how many. Those maps are just wild guesses.

 

Only in those states without preemption laws.

 

Correction, Idaho "allows CCW on college campuses" with an Idaho Enhanced CCW License. And even at that, the colleges and universities themselves impose a lot of restrictions as to where on campus CCW is allowed.
My wife and I completed the Idaho Enhanced CCW Class last summer because we both have ties with ISU and end up on-campus there fairly often. We'd had Idaho standard CCW Licenses for a long time (only for the ease of no phone-in background checks when buying guns), but we let them expire because we knew we needed Idaho Enhanced CCW Licenses for legal on-campus carry. However, even now that we have the Enhanced licenses, whenever we're going on-campus at ISU, we still get on the internet and make sure CCW is allowed in the building(s) we're planning on being in.
You're right about open carry in Idaho though. I think that's been legal here since even before my dad was born, and I'm 72.

 

This is what I intensely dislike about this thread topic -- it ALWAYS degenerates into some members denigrating other members' states. If you don't live there, or haven't lived there, just STHU, you cannot possibly know what the true culture and climate of that state is really like.

Heck, we have Inslee, CHOP, I-594 and I-1639, but we still have a vibrant, live gun culture in my state.

 

Never said you didn't have a decent gun culture, so keep your insults to yourself. Detroit and your anti-gun Governor IS a reason to avoid your state when it comes to living; visiting for a short while is another story. Seems the only folks who get upset when their state gets a bad mark do so because they can't refute those claims and comments.

 

WTH Delaware??? What can the rest of us do to help?

 

Only 8.

 

The only common sense law in my opinion is the second amendment to the bill of rights. All others are infringements.

 

I do not know if Missouri would be measured as “friendly” but I have no complaints. I am an avid owner, shooter and hunter, licensed CCW - I don’t feel restricted at all. In turn, guns are a-blazin’ every single night in St. Louis City - lots of guns but I am not so sure about friendly.

 

Let's not insult the residents of states. Such deleted. Discuss the laws.

 

Nice to see a state refrain from infringing.

 

West Coaster here, stuck in FL. Move to Idaho! You will be glad that you did.

 

What is it?

 

Wyoming:

• No concealed permit required for in state...you can get a permit so you can carry out of state.
• No state background checks, waiting periods etc....private sales included.
• Open carry of course.

I don't see how you can get much better than that.

 

Is there ample BLM land in Wyoming for shooting? If so, it sounds like gun paradise.

I live in FL, which has medium-level permissiveness for gun ownership, but absolutely nowhere to shoot.
Los Angeles County (my old home) has 20,000 acres of land open for year-round shooting. My Florida county has zero.