What is Gun ownership like in your state?

[Mars5l]

What's so bad? Certainly not Florida!

Got very used to sitting at my favorite Tiki bar, watching the scenery, ordering ammo or a gun, sipping bourbon and gingerale.

Then the multi-bladed rotary airflow unit of life got impacted with excreta of unknown origin.....

All that fun'll be back though!

Shhhh... You're supposed to say this place is horrible and we're over filled

 

[brasscollector]

Talking guns is open and without fear of reprisal or divisiveness.

Really depends on where you're at I guess.. Get outside the major hubs and I would agree 100%.

 

[Skeptic13]

In Colorado are main issues are useless magazine restrictions and the dangerous red flag laws. These are our biggest issues. It is fairly easy to get a CC permit and there is a very strong hunting and shooting culture. The state however gets more and more liberal each year. There was a big uprising when they passed magazine restrictions but since you can still buy magazines as kits the anger has subsided. I expect that the liberals here are just biding their time before we will see a new round of gun laws and restrictions.

 

[Project355]

Shhhh... You're supposed to say this place is horrible and we're over filled

Right you are. Florida is terrible. Overcrowded. Hot. Its so hot, your sneakers fuse with the sidewalk if you quit walking for too long. Why, you can fry the hood of a car on a carton of eggs! Mosquitos are the size of buzzards, and the buzzards are the size of a Cessna Citation. We have bees and spiders, and if you come here you might poke your eye out. We have carnivorous rabbits, mice and squirrels that will sneak into your house and cling to your bedroom ceiling until you fall asleep then attack. The coons and possums will steal your car for kicks. Stray dogs will impregnate your neighbor and your kids, even your sons, and the cats will burn your house down if you quit feeding 'em three times a day. Its bad I say, really really bad.

Except for a certain little tiki bar, on a nearby mostly fresh water lake with ocean access, where bikini clad waitresses bring you your favorite drink without even asking upon your arrival and every table and seat at the bar has at least one cellphone charging station, so you can surf or chat and order expensive toys while sipping and enjoying the sunset and the cooling breeze of the ceiling fans, with their nice B-17 size blades rotating at just the right speed.

The rest of Florida is urban wilderness, a no-man's land of treachery and decadence of the kind your mom warned you about.

 

[HammsBeer]

MN is not too bad overall. Shall issue permit to carry, we can have pretty much any gun in any non-nfa configuration but handguns and some rifles require a shall issue permit to purchase, can have any mag capacity, just got suppressors legal a few years ago, no gun registry, and state preemption law blocks tighter gun laws at the city/county level. There are some C&R laws regarding MG's, no castle law, and the state legislature from the twin cities metro keeps trying every anti gun law possible, but so far so good.

 

[KevininPa]

Hi...
Pennsylvania is a shall issue state for CCW and open carry is legal.
Instant check system iss just that unless the system is really busy. Longest I have waited is about an hour which was supposedly because of the Wuhan flu (lack of on duty staff at the State Police background check center)earlier this year.
It is legal to privately sell long guns individual to individual without a background check in Pennsylvania.
No limits on how many firearms you can purchase at any one time that I am aware of.

Just to add to this, semi auto sporting rifles with normal capacity thirty round mags are legal here. So is any pistol mag over ten rounds also legal. Suppressors are legal if you're into them.

Pa is a mix of urban and rural. Naturally the Socialist urban areas are antis. While our rural areas will welcome you with open arms.

Current state government is Conservative House and Senate. Thank God. We needed that to block our current ultra socialist governor. He's on his last term. I'm anticipating a Conservative next term due to his heavy handed Covid handling. He has his eyes on DC in the next administration. Seen this before with Rendell.

But so far we're good to go.

 

[Rubone]

We have a mixed bag herein New Mexico. We are the 4th highest per capita in gun ownership, however we were saddled last year with a mandatory background check on all transfers. Our CCW is tough to get compared to some but little restriction once you have it other than regular renewals required. Open carry is allowed but rarely seen. As with other states we have an influx of left coasters and others with their own ideas of how we should live here. Large hunting community, tons of state and federal lands to access.

 

[Kevin Rohrer]

Ohio

Always gun-friendly. Open-carry, CCW, guns in the back window (except in Cleveland), lots of indoor and outdoor ranges, straight-wall rifle cartridges ok for deer, no closed season for coyote or wild pig. If you have a special deer permit for certain locations, you can even use Dynamite to fill your tag.

 

[SwampWolf]

Massachusetts here

I've wondered for a long time why any gun manufacturer would stay in Massachusetts, unless they simply can't afford to move. Of course, Kimber moved from Oregon to New York and Henry Arms seems to like it there, so, what do I know.

 

[Project355]

Seriously.... FL is gun friendly. Title II is no problem, even FA. CWP easy to get and not too expensive, also few resrictions thereof. You can open carry while fishing or hunting, or on your way to or from. In a vehicle is easy, glove box/console ok. Auto knives legal if not cocealed, or concealed with cwp. Pretty easy goin' state.

 

[SwampWolf]

no closed season for coyote or wild pig.

Yep, and you can shoot any Rhino or Hippo you see; no closed seasons on them either.

 

[grammontS]

I've wondered for a long time why any gun manufacturer would stay in Massachusetts, unless they simply can't afford to move. Of course, Kimber moved from Oregon to New York and Henry Arms seems to like it there, so, what do I know.

Smith & Wesson has been here for a long time now......... I know if I was a gun manufacturer , this is the last place I would be setting up shop.

 

[grammontS]

Ohio

Always gun-friendly. Open-carry, CCW, guns in the back window (except in Cleveland), lots of indoor and outdoor ranges, straight-wall rifle cartridges ok for deer, no closed season for coyote or wild pig. If you have a special deer permit for certain locations, you can even use Dynamite to fill your tag.

I use to go out to Ohio for a horse auction every year , always seemed like a down to earth state. Never did much there besides buy and sell horses though.

 

[Mousegun]

Tennessee is a little frustrating. We have been trying for Constitutional carry for years, but RINOS are a very heavy animal and hard to move.

 

[FFGColorado]

Colorado. Easy to buy a gun, easy to get a CCW license. Magazine restrictions are not enforced..buy any +15 magazine 'kit' anywhere.
RFL has been used about 75 times since Jan 2020..Since 2001, 4 million guns have been purchased in CO..right now, 2020, 'about' 120,000 new gun owners, 2% of the population of Colorado. About 300,000 concealed carry permits in Colorado to date.

So, and I have only been in Colorado while owning a gun..not much issue. Between my 2 son's and I, we own 18 guns and rifles.

 

[daniel craig]

Seriously.... FL is gun friendly. Title II is no problem, even FA. CWP easy to get and not too expensive, also few resrictions thereof. You can open carry while fishing or hunting, or on your way to or from. In a vehicle is easy, glove box/console ok. Auto knives legal if not cocealed, or concealed with cwp. Pretty easy goin' state.

Florida is too far south and the climate sounds absolutely atrocious to me.

 

[FROGO207]

More from Maine here. The state follows national laws and the only restrictive one is for a CCW permit to cary in a federal park. Thank you Pingree for screwing up Acadia National Park for the locals!!! So far we have beat down most anti 2A proposals. They do have a yellow flag law (red flag was too hot a topic to get past the average voter) that is too ambiguous for its own use IMO. As long as we can keep the larger southern cities in the state at bay things will stay good.

 

[daniel craig]

More from Maine here. The state follows national laws and the only restrictive one is for a CCW permit to cary in a federal park. Thank you Pingree for screwing up Acadia National Park for the locals!!! So far we have beat down most anti 2A proposals. They do have a yellow flag law (red flag was too hot a topic to get past the average voter) that is too ambiguous for its own use IMO. As long as we can keep the larger southern cities in the state at bay things will stay good.

I’m confused how a state CCW permit impacts your ability to carry on federal land. Do they default to state rules for that?

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

A number of new gun shops/ranges have opened here in NJ, the usual "salami slicing" tactics-magazine limitations, "red flag" laws, etc.
The shops I go into, no ammunition, new guns pretty rare, generally a good selection of used ones. Haven't bought a handgun in years, can't comment on that.

 

[FROGO207]

Yes some years ago the USNPS relaxed firearms laws back to state laws. So the representative of the first congressional distritct got a law passed that affects the second district and restricts firearm possesion to those that have a Maine CCW or equivalent to stop "people in the campgrounds from shooting each other"( her quote). We also have Constitutional carry so those of us that want to use the park without a permit have to go unarmed. So I am a volunteer firefighter and if I enter the park in my POV with an otherwise legal firearm to help with an incident and no permit I get in trouble, It is stupid.

 

[BigBL87]

Here in Illinois...

Suppressor use in hunting - Suppressors are completely illegal in IL, so no dice.

Military style Rifle ownership/feature regulation - Surprisingly, on the state wide level we don't have any regulation on these yet. Proposed laws come up every year or two, but nothing passed yet. Some communities have passed their own bans/regulations.

Mag capacities - Same as above.

Free and public shooting areas - Pretty non existent (free AND public at least). I shoot free on my in-laws property and there are a fair share of outdoor and indoor ranges nearby, but none are free or even particularly cheap.

 

[stonebuster]

I'm state police. Was approved for pistol permit Sept 16th still waiting for it.

That's insane!

 

[If1HitU]

Everytime I visit my LGS,people are always buying guns.

 

[kimberkid]

In Kansas, we're pretty liberal ... by that I don't mean politically liberal, because we are a red state!

By liberal I mean you have the liberty to buy anything you want, revolvers, semi-automatic pistols and rifles or shotguns of any design, even select fire or fully automatic as long as it was made before May 1986 ... as long as you fill out the appropriate paperwork and pass the background checks.

Nuclear devices, EMP's and Phased Plasma Rifles in the 40 watt range not withstanding.

 

[SwampWolf]

Just to add to this, semi auto sporting rifles with normal capacity thirty round mags are legal here.

But they're not legal to hunt big game with, right? Or has that Pa law changed? Last I checked, another odd Pa hunting restriction involved muzzleloading rifles-flintlocks ok; percussion not. Is that still true?