States with the most registered guns per capita...?

[M14 Shooter]

From Bloomberg:

Most Registered Guns per Capita: States - Bloomberg Best (and Worst)

Wyoming: 195.7 registered guns per 100k.

The problem with this?
Neither Wyoming nor most of the other states have any form of gun registration.

Where did Bloomberg get these numbers?
Did they, like anti-gun loons, just make them up?

 

[bucs90]

Must be referring to Class 3 guns.

 

[M14 Shooter]

Must be referring to Class 3 guns.

114,000 class-III guns in WY, 1 for every 4 people?
Doubtful.

 

[Pete7469]

114,000 class-III guns in WY, 1 for every 4 people?
Doubtful.

It would be cool...

I think it's based on NICS checks, not an actual registry. We're supposed to believe the ATF isn't keeping records of who purchased what guns.

It that's the truth then David Koresh really was the messiah.

 

[M14 Shooter]

114,000 class-III guns in WY, 1 for every 4 people?
Doubtful.

It would be cool...
I think it's based on NICS checks, not an actual registry. We're supposed to believe the ATF isn't keeping records of who purchased what guns.

If that's the case, then they're lying..

 

[Pete7469]

If that's the case, then they're lying..

We're talking about a bureaucracy that endeavors to regulate a commodity that people are supposed to have no infringements in their ownership of.

They have to lie in order to exist.

 

[hortysir]

114,000 class-III guns in WY, 1 for every 4 people?
Doubtful.

It would be cool...

I think it's based on NICS checks, not an actual registry. We're supposed to believe the ATF isn't keeping records of who purchased what guns.

It that's the truth then David Koresh really was the messiah.

Even if going by nics checks, Florida isn't supposed to keep theirs for more than 48hrs

 

[Pete7469]

Even if going by nics checks, Florida isn't supposed to keep theirs for more than 48hrs

All FFL's are supposed to retain their records indefinitely or turn the records over to the ATF. There isn't supposed to be a repository, so paper records are stored in a warehouse. In the event a gun needs to be traced in a crime, an agent must comb through these records.

It's just not called a registry.

I looked up another source, it says records must be retained for 20 years.

 

[Missourian]

Strangely enough, lowest firearm homicides:

Gun violence in the United States by state