Massachusetts most armed town

[mikelawtown]

I'm surprised Lawrence isnt #1.......oh you mean Licensed

 

[drgrant]

That's easy.

Without even looking, here are four of the bottom 10: Boston, Brookline, Cambridge and Chelsea

Watertown and Canton are easily worse than all of those.

ETA: holy chit, realized this was a necropost. Info in this article is probably well out of date at this point... particularly given Obamascare 2.

-Mike

 

[American 1]

Damn. lots of permit holders on the cape.

For a good reason...Lotta drug addicted kangaroos on the govt tag and release program. Been to Hyannis lately....its a joke!!

 

[JCV]

:-( Malden didn't make the list. No surprise there though.

 

[NewGunGuy]

Damn Peabody didn't even make the list, guess that means a lot of people are denied the right to defend themselves here!


Charles.

 

[StevensMarksman]

I think one good thing for us is, if you take the total # of all LTC A in MA and multiply that times $100 you will see a even more staggering average that the commonwealth receives every 5 years.

Now take all fire arms permits and put them in, and that is a shit ton of revenue if you ask me.

StevensMarksman

 

[jaypap]

The system seems flawed.

Springfield and Boston are not on the list yet everytime a gun is fired they want to restrict the people who have LTC's.

 

[Zappa]

Watertown and Canton are easily worse than all of those.

Granted Watertown sucks, but it's not worse than Brookline.

 

[Killswitch009]

Sweet I live in the #2 town.

 

[Greschner 4]

Beverly residents should wake the **** up. The Beverly COP is VERY Pro LTC "A" (CCW). But, he has, so far, unsuccessfully applied for other COP jobs in other larger metropolitan cities. Point is, when/if he does leave, god knows what his replacement might look like. The (outgoing) Mayor is not exactly a card-carrying LTC A supporter (so it seems). Great guy otherwise.

 

[stinger35]

Interesting.

Also I really wish websites would stop with those ****ing slide shows. Either write a story or don't. Clicking across 86 slides is stupid. /rant.

I assumed they were doing that just to mess with us.

 

[twinbrook86]

How was Maynard on that list. I can't seem to get the page to work for me

 

[BerkshireHunter]

How was Maynard on that list. I can't seem to get the page to work for me

Its stupid, you have to individually click through 70 towns.
Palmer #5 (I think) FTW!

 

[Lowbird]

How was Maynard on that list. I can't seem to get the page to work for me

Maynard is not ranked.
Moved from Maynard to #56. Making this list. Movin on up.

Also. If you are on a laptop. Just move the mouse over the slides for a town name. Use the main tabs to move the pages of slides. You don't have to click every one.

 

[chindogg]

Damn. lots of permit holders on the cape.

Ya, surprised about Nantucket.

- - - Updated - - -

Maynard is not ranked.
Moved from Maynard to #56. Making this list. Movin on up.

Also. If you are on a laptop. Just move the mouse over the slides for a town name. Use the main tabs to move the pages of slides. You don't have to click every one.

[video=youtube_share;FHDwRECFL8M]http://youtu.be/FHDwRECFL8M[/video]

 

[Greschner 4]

Update, Beverly Chief announced a few days ago he is retiring.

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[je25ff]

#68

 

[Jktu-B]

Beverly residents should wake the **** up.

And do - what?

 

[rudiewhitebwoy]

And do - what?

+ 1

Before Mark Ray was Chief, John Cassola was Chief, the Firearms guy under both of them was Lt.Bill Terry. As long as Bill has that post I'm not worried about a thing, then again, with the changing of the guard, Bill might move up. I don't know what I, as a citizen of Beverly, can do to change who gets in.

 

[Greschner 4]

+ 1

Before Mark Ray was Chief, John Cassola was Chief, the Firearms guy under both of them was Lt.Bill Terry. As long as Bill has that post I'm not worried about a thing, then again, with the changing of the guard, Bill might move up. I don't know what I, as a citizen of Beverly, can do to change who gets in.

Bill is a great guy and, as you intimated, very Pro LTC A. But that will be immaterial if the new COP has a different orientation (if you know what I mean). So back to my original point, I would urge ALL Beverly residents to take full advantage of the current licensing climate.

 

[john m]

Thanks for sharing. The top 25 are so hick .

The police show up in minutes. An intruder takes seconds.
Wicked Funny.

 

[inerlogic]

new bedford didn't even make the list?

OH WAIITT>........ they're going by LICENSED gun owners.... ok......

 

[Starscream23]

saugus #80 woo hoo !!!

saugus was 4.63% which if you really think about, it is a very small number. that's about 5 people out of 100. when i look at 100 people in a row. i differentially think their is more than 5 people carrying.

btw most guns per state, yes that's mass all the way at the bottom.

• States with Extremely High Populations of Gun Owners(more than 50%)
• 1. Wyoming - 59.7%
• 2. Alaska - 57.8%
• 3. Montana - 57.7%
• 4. South Dakota - 56.6%
• 5. West Virginia - 55.4%
• 6. Mississippi - 55.3%
• 6. Idaho - 55.3%
• 6. Arkansas - 55.3%
• 9. Alabama - 51.7%
• 10. North Dakota - 50.7%

• States with High Populations of Gun Owners
• 11. Kentucky - 47.7%
• 12. Wisconsin - 44.4% (Battleground state. See Wisconsin in 2012 Elections.)
• 13. Louisiana - 44.1%
• 14. Utah - 43.9%
• 14. Tennessee - 43.9%
• 16. Oklahoma - 42.9%
• 16. Iowa - 42.9% (Battleground state. See Iowa in 2012 Elections.)
• 18. South Carolina - 42.3%
• 19. Kansas - 42.1%
• 20. Vermont - 42.0%
• 21. Missouri - 41.7% (Battleground state. See Missouri in 2012 Elections.)
• 21. Minnesota - 41.7%
• 23. North Carolina - 41.3% (Battleground state. See North Carolina in 2012 Elections.)
• 24. Maine - 40.5%
• 25. Georgia - 40.3%

• States with Median Populations of Gun Owners
• 26. Oregon - 39.8%
• 27. Indiana - 39.1%
• 28. Nebraska - 38.6%
• 29. Michigan - 38.4% (Battleground state. See Michigan in 2012 Elections.)
• 30. Texas - 35.9%
• 31. Virginia - 35.1% (Battleground state. See Virginia in 2012 Elections.)
• 32. New Mexico - 34.8% (Battleground state. See New Mexico in 2012 Elections.)
• 33. Colorado - 34.7% (Battleground state. See Colorado in 2012 Elections.)
• 33. Pennsylvania - 34.7% (Battleground state. See Pennsylvania in 2012 Elections.)
• 35. Nevada - 33.8% (Battleground state. See Nevada in 2012 Elections.)
• 36. Washington - 33.1%
• 37. Ohio - 32.4% (Battleground state. See Ohio in 2012 Elections.)
• 38. Arizona - 31.1% (Battleground state. See Arizona in 2012 Elections.)
• 39. New Hampshire - 30.0% (Battleground state. See New Hampshire in 2012 Elections.)

• States with Below Median Populations of Gun Owners
• 40. Delaware - 25.5%
• 41. Florida - 24.5% (Battleground state. See Florida in 2012 Elections.)
• 42. California - 21.3%
• 42. Maryland - 21.3%
• 44. Illinois - 20.2%
• 45. New York - 18%
• 46. Connecticut - 16.7%
• 47. Rhode Island - 12.8%
• 48. Massachusetts - 12.6%
• 49. New Jersey - 12.3%
• 50. Hawaii - 6.7%

 

[Quiet]

Does anyone know where we can get a list of towns and number (and type) of licenses -- essentially the raw data for this slideshow?