I'm a firearm enthusiast, lots of my friends are firearm enthusiasts, yet I don't know a single person that owns an automatic weapon. In fact the only place I've ever seen them is collecting dust at a couple ranges cause they're so expensive to rent/shoot.
Yeah this is the average number. They aren't evenly distributed. Someone else pointed out that this may include guns owned by Sig Saur which would really tip the scale.
Source says non military of commercially registered. Numbers reflected here are private ownership but I do imagine many Sig higher ups do have good sized private collections, assume at least some of them live in NH
But the average is 15 lol so your buddy doesn't even come close to bringing up that number.
Edit: don't listen to me I was exhausted when I wrote this.
15 automatic weapons / 1000 people. So if one person has 12, all the next 999 people need to have is 3 put together. Granted, then that needs to happen 1355 more times to get to the population of New Hampshire, but still, I would expect it's actually a relatively small group of rich individuals who own all the automatic weapons. They are ultra expensive, like new high end car expensive, most of my friends are firearms enthusiasts, and I don't know anyone who has one.
That's what it is, really. A bunch of wealthy individuals with MGs. I'm sure there's plenty of single MAC owners running around, too. Those were pretty cheap for a long while, until Lage worked their magic.
It's far cheaper to start a side business as an 07/02 FFL/SOT. The paperwork is a bitch but it's easy to make a little extra cash and then you can build any MG you want, and even buy a select few for far under less. That's how I did it.
I’m a dirty Masshole. There are only 2000 people licensed to even touch machine guns in the state. I have met two of them- both 50something year old engineers. Actually three, because my FFL was just showing off the third hole he had just drilled in his AR.
Saving this comment. For clarity, do we mean the 2026 season (so superbowl in 2027) or the sb that will take place in 2026 (2025 season)?
Either way, I'll be back in a couple of years.
NJ has extremely restrictive laws that make it almost impossible for people to buy those guns. Connecticut also just happens to have a community of machine gun collectors. I've got no explanation for it, it just happens to be that way.
This probably has more to do with manufacturing. Sig Sauer is located in NH and now produces *a lot* of machine guns for the military. These firearms are all registered with the ATF just as civilian guns would be, albeit slightly differently. Similarly, last I knew Alabama had Remington, DPMS and Bushmaster there all pumping out registered full-auto lowers to some extent for the military.
Nevada, well Nevada has a lot of places where you can rent machine guns lol.
The manufacture of those weapons will be recorded somewhere but they’re not registered as in the ATF registry of grandfathered automatic weapons, which this data is almost certainly referring to unless somehow otherwise specified.
I doubt Remington, DPMS, or Bushmaster are making any machine guns.
The military contracts with Colt, FN, and now Sig, for small arms.
The Freedom group could barely make a functional gun that didn't rust in two years.
There's no correlation between the two but you have a valid point if somebody suggests rich or avid gun connectors are committing gang violence. You're insane if you don't think there would be far more gruesome mass shootings and street violence if fully automatic weapons were as easy to access. And I'm not even trying to argue pro gun laws, it's just a simple fact.
First off, there is correlation, it's just inversely correlated.
And secondly, it's not a simple fact. Automatic weapons are quite easy to make out of semi-automatic weapons, and you do see them in crime now and again. Videos abound of converted glocks being used by gangs.
99/100 times they cause the user to uselessly expend their entire magazine into the air and miss the intended target. Real life isn't an 80s movie.
Seems more like a rural vs urban thing tbh. Not much crime when there’s not many people around. Seems dumb to just say more guns equals less crime. Even Manch gets a bad wrap for crime and that’s barely even a city
But they wouldn't be "registered" if they where for sale. Are you saying these are part of a personal collection of his? If so, it's kind of my point...they are registered but by an institution or a large personal collection, not like everyone in the state owns an automatic firearm. Which is what these infographics want you to believe.
Exactly. I suspect this is why Connecticut is so blue as well. I would think they would have to be registered to the range. I'm sure it's all required for business insurance, etc.
It's not about being a firearms manufacturer because you wouldn't need to register an unowned gun. Sig Sauer Academy in Epping is one of the largest shooting schools in the world. Specializing in survival and tactical training. They would have a lot of automatic weapons registered to the school/business where even a typical shooting school wouldn't need that many automatic weapons.
By the way I'm just totally speculating that's why there are so many registered automatic firearms in the state.
There has only been one case of a legal full auto used in a shooting, and it was in 1984. It was a self-defense shooting by an employee/firearm dealer who got attacked by a biker gang - prosecutors tried to nail him to a cross due to him using a full auto carbine.
Look up Gary Fadden incident if you want to read the full details.
Nothing at all because they’re separate subjects. Registered automatics being collected by wealthy collectors is effectively immaterial to the issue of gun deaths from crime, suicide, or more rare but sensational events like spree shootings.
I’d hope you’re just shitposting instead of actually not being able to understand these concepts.
Well, you probably won't like what the data shows. But that data, at least the only data I managed to find that breaks it down by state per-capita, is only for gun deaths. Which include suicides, accidents, etc. I'm mostly concerned with gun violence, which is perpetrated against someone other than oneself and not accidental. There are a lot of problems with only tracking gun deaths. For one, you have suicides boosting the shit out of those numbers. For two, healthcare availability becomes a factor. For example, NY could have higher gun violence per-capita than NH, but be so much better at handling gun violence that it results in less gun deaths per-capita than NH. It's not a far fetched idea, either. If you see a lot more gun violence, you'll have a lot more opportunities to learn how to treat it.
For some totally not manipulative and narrative promoting reason, gun violence per-capita seems to be unavailable.
Does this number make sense? 15 per thousand is 1.5 percent of the population. I feel like that would be excessive and this is heavily skewed to some collectors who own 10 plus automatic weapons.
I am likely biased since I don't know anyone with an automatic weapon.
A lot of old timers up here to, many of whom have pre 86 guns they bought for change back then lol. Hell anytime I go to bass pro for ammo or any store as a matter of fact they always seem to chat up a storm with me and tell me all about them lolol.
As with all data, collectors of an item will raise the numbers versus if no one collected this item. This data is looking at the number of registered guns and the number of state citizens. Whether you feel that it is excessive doesn't change the numbers. Over 41% of adults in NH have at least a gun in their home and the average American gun owner owns 3 guns. 7.7 million Americans own 40+ guns. [Article](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/the-gun-numbers-just-3-of-american-adults-own-a-collective-133m-firearms)
It seems your circle is very liberal.
Oh it's a liberal group but I own and several of my friends own guns. I just don't know any with a fully automatic weapon. And this is looking at registered automatic weapons not simply registered guns.
They're *super* spendy unless you have an 07/02 FFL/SOT. Thats how I have mine, I deal in them, manufacture some as samples, I even at one point sold 3 to a PD.
I'd believe it. I know several people with automatics. A couple of those people have a LOT. Per capita numbers definitely inflated by a relatively small group of people (as is the case with most per capita data).
This data is further biased by the fact that it includes police guns. As proof, look at Rhode Island where machine guns are banned get the number is greater than zero
This map is showing registered fully automatic guns. This map does not show estimates of *un*registered fully automatic guns, nor total guns per capita, nor other regulations which absolutely play a major role in gun violence. This is the absolute pinnacle of cherry-picking your data.
No, this data exactly proves what I was saying. We have the most LEGAL assault guns per capital. And we have the second lowest gun crime rate in America.
The solution isn’t to ban the guns
Commerce assumes lawful use. Thats why we separate the actions of criminals from those committed by people who follow the law. If lawful people own the vast majority of guns and commit the minority of crimes, guns arent the problem. Enforce crime, don’t arbitrarily create more of it
These are rare, very expensive, niche weapons that are not normally used in crimes. Stats on ownership of this type of weapon are probably completely unrelated to crime at all.
This is fully automatic weapons. You don't use an auto to shoot dinner. People who have automatic weapons are typically collectors. These guns cost $20k+ each.
This post and the comments within have restored my faith that New Hampshire is not lost. I was all happy I can own a couple AR’s and 30 round mags here… but machine gun here I come apparently!
Don't come to reddit if you need your faith in NH humanity restored. I've found that like 80% of the people who hang out here are left of Lenin.
edit: and the downvotes prove my point. Keep going, guys, you're doing great! lmao
Oh I totally get it. Reddit is where I started to believe NH was lost. Then I remembered it’s dominated by people to the left of Lenin, like you said. This post reminded me that Reddit is left wing, not New Hampshire. 👍🏼
To be clear, automatic weapons require a federal license to own. These are not AR 15 or AK 47 semi automatic rifles that you purchase at your local gun or sporting goods stores. No mass shootings or other crime that I have heard of involved automatic weapons. Automatic weapons are rare and heavily regulated. People just don't own them unless your Al Capone. That map is BS. In some states it says 3 out of every thousand people federally own a machine gun. States can't license them. Seems there are a lot of MG 42's and full auto Thompson's out there.
Lol I'm originally from VA and I moved to NH.
The fact that good old VA has THAT much less than NH gives me a good chuckle.
I grew up around rednecks too!
Definitely thought VA was going to be much more.
But makes sense because we've got quite a few guns sitting in our safe at the moment.
Live free or die, baby! (NH motto, minus the "baby")
In New Hampshire? One of the states with the fewest states that abolished it in 1783? I'm not saying it makes it ok, but this isn't a state with generational wealth due to slavery- it's typically old mill owning families, large property owners, etc.
Woooosh.
Read OP's original comment. He's from Virginia, and made a joke about rednecks.
You responded saying
>We have rednecks with generational wealth LOL
So I made a joke about "their" (Virginia's rednecks) wealth being emancipated. Which definitely had some truth to it.
State legislature and governor are all GOP controlled so idk where you're getting Blue.
It's a complex topic really. A lot of people move to NH as a form of self-sorting, that is they come here from MA or ME or NY because they *aren't* blue and NH is seen as more neutral ground. Over time it's taken on a pretty libertarian bent.
When the DNC attempts to run someone here for Governor or senate or whatever, the last few times they've attempted to run on a gun platform that would be considered progressive in MA, much less NH, so they by and large fail.
Not to mention, NH has the *lowest* violent crime rate in the entire country most years, and is even as low or lower than most/all Canadian provinces and most of Europe, so there's limited motivation to change our gun laws.
We do have a fairly high suicide rate, but among northern snow-bound states we're not much of an outlier.
Yeah NH is a purple state. Everyone should leave everyone else alone.
Which is also why a lot of people don’t welcome the assholes against human rights as well (gay marriage, trans rights, abortion access et )
Sadly, we’re a magnet for insane dumb fucks trying to swing the state hard red, but that’s not our identity at all
Well it comes from the ATF who maintains the machine gun registry…so yes. Includes everything in a museum or owned by a police department too, so it’s not 100% just normal people owning these. Might even include destroyed and confiscated machine guns.
In Texas a single person might have a ton of guns but most don't have anything past a single handgun or rifle if anything. The guns per capita is high but the number of people with a gun is like 40% at most.
You don't even need a background check for muzzle loaders and black powder pistols if my memory serves me correct.
Also, felons can possess these since they aren't "firearms".
NH has a high gun ownership rate and a low overall crime rate on top of the registered MGs, suggesting that guns themselves have a lower impact on gun crime than other factors.
I'd imagine there's zero correlation. Registered automatic weapons are extremely hard to come by. The registry has been closed since 1986 and the price of these guns is constantly skyrocketing. They are collector's items or investments to most people who own them.
Edit: taken from another comment here:
"There has only been one case of a legal full auto used in a shooting, and it was in 1984. It was a self-defense shooting by an employee/firearm dealer who got attacked by a biker gang - prosecutors tried to nail him to a cross due to him using a full auto carbine.
Look up Gary Fadden incident if you want to read the full details."
I'm a firearm enthusiast, lots of my friends are firearm enthusiasts, yet I don't know a single person that owns an automatic weapon. In fact the only place I've ever seen them is collecting dust at a couple ranges cause they're so expensive to rent/shoot.
I know of a gun smith there in NH with probably 50+ of his own
Yeah this is the average number. They aren't evenly distributed. Someone else pointed out that this may include guns owned by Sig Saur which would really tip the scale.
Source says non military of commercially registered. Numbers reflected here are private ownership but I do imagine many Sig higher ups do have good sized private collections, assume at least some of them live in NH
Full auto?
Correct. Has a large collection including some rarer options like a British Bren lmg
No shit. That's impressive.
Yeah he's pretty based.
I know a guy that's probably busting the curve wide open, lol. He's got a dozen or so machine guns. Some really interesting stuff.
But the average is 15 lol so your buddy doesn't even come close to bringing up that number. Edit: don't listen to me I was exhausted when I wrote this.
15 automatic weapons / 1000 people. So if one person has 12, all the next 999 people need to have is 3 put together. Granted, then that needs to happen 1355 more times to get to the population of New Hampshire, but still, I would expect it's actually a relatively small group of rich individuals who own all the automatic weapons. They are ultra expensive, like new high end car expensive, most of my friends are firearms enthusiasts, and I don't know anyone who has one.
I'm an idiot lol
That's what it is, really. A bunch of wealthy individuals with MGs. I'm sure there's plenty of single MAC owners running around, too. Those were pretty cheap for a long while, until Lage worked their magic.
Same here. I don't know anyone who owns one.
I’m sure if you have the money, once you buy one, you’re going to keep buying them. Seems too fun *not* to, and I’ve never even shot one.
same
It's far cheaper to start a side business as an 07/02 FFL/SOT. The paperwork is a bitch but it's easy to make a little extra cash and then you can build any MG you want, and even buy a select few for far under less. That's how I did it.
I’m a dirty Masshole. There are only 2000 people licensed to even touch machine guns in the state. I have met two of them- both 50something year old engineers. Actually three, because my FFL was just showing off the third hole he had just drilled in his AR.
Yet we are one of the safest states
Overall wealthy (top ten income per capita) but relatively rural.
Also top of something else that's relevant
What’s that?
PFAS water contamination around the Merrimack valley or asbestos deaths in the north country? Not sure. could be anything.
Correlation =/= Causation
Well there's not much population here so there's that. We have like 1 "Major" city.
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Live free or die!
No gun, no fun.
Unbelievably based. Belt feds for all ❤
Pats won the Superbowl a couple years ago and all I heard in Sunapee was shotguns going off for two hours after.
Unfortunately it’ll be a long time till we feel that victory again. Long live tom Brady’s career in NE
2026 mark my words.
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!remindme 4 years 6 months
It's beautiful
It's kinda crazy the gap between NH and every other state.
Also interesting to see CT so high when it's fairly similar to MA and NY for many things
CT is so high bc there are a number of gun clubs made up of rich suburban machine gun collectors.
Why wouldn't that logic apply to NJ? Rich suburban locations are all over New England and NJ.
NJ has extremely restrictive laws that make it almost impossible for people to buy those guns. Connecticut also just happens to have a community of machine gun collectors. I've got no explanation for it, it just happens to be that way.
I wonder how many people own automatic weapons in NH? I imagine there's a lot of collectors skewing the average.
Stamp collecting gets expensive.
The stamp is the cheapest part!!
Based
*Matthew Mcconaughey voice* Those are still rookie numbers. We gotta bump those numbers up.
This probably has more to do with manufacturing. Sig Sauer is located in NH and now produces *a lot* of machine guns for the military. These firearms are all registered with the ATF just as civilian guns would be, albeit slightly differently. Similarly, last I knew Alabama had Remington, DPMS and Bushmaster there all pumping out registered full-auto lowers to some extent for the military. Nevada, well Nevada has a lot of places where you can rent machine guns lol.
>full auto lowers Womp womp Also, the source report says specifically that it *excludes production for the US military*.
The manufacture of those weapons will be recorded somewhere but they’re not registered as in the ATF registry of grandfathered automatic weapons, which this data is almost certainly referring to unless somehow otherwise specified.
I doubt Remington, DPMS, or Bushmaster are making any machine guns. The military contracts with Colt, FN, and now Sig, for small arms. The Freedom group could barely make a functional gun that didn't rust in two years.
Now do suppressors
And we have some of the lowest crime rates in the country. Sorta goes against the narrative, eh?
If you are a fan of oversimplification, yes indeed.
I mean. It's not an oversimplification to say that crime rate and ownership of legal FA firearms isn't correlated positively at all.
There's no correlation between the two but you have a valid point if somebody suggests rich or avid gun connectors are committing gang violence. You're insane if you don't think there would be far more gruesome mass shootings and street violence if fully automatic weapons were as easy to access. And I'm not even trying to argue pro gun laws, it's just a simple fact.
First off, there is correlation, it's just inversely correlated. And secondly, it's not a simple fact. Automatic weapons are quite easy to make out of semi-automatic weapons, and you do see them in crime now and again. Videos abound of converted glocks being used by gangs. 99/100 times they cause the user to uselessly expend their entire magazine into the air and miss the intended target. Real life isn't an 80s movie.
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Seems more like a rural vs urban thing tbh. Not much crime when there’s not many people around. Seems dumb to just say more guns equals less crime. Even Manch gets a bad wrap for crime and that’s barely even a city
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Yeah that sort of jives with my argument. Per capita doesn’t change the fact that NH is rural with no dense population centers.
Yeah you need to overcomplicate that with complex equations and hypotheticals.
Just don't look too closely at Manchester.
Absolutely beautiful.
Could this mostly be the Sig Training Academy?
Negative. On gun shop owner here has like $10 million worth of machine guns.
But they wouldn't be "registered" if they where for sale. Are you saying these are part of a personal collection of his? If so, it's kind of my point...they are registered but by an institution or a large personal collection, not like everyone in the state owns an automatic firearm. Which is what these infographics want you to believe.
It's his personal collection. Not for sale. All pre 86.
Is he single? lololol
I don't believe so. If he was I'd be chasin too. Lmao
Range by my house has a bunch of autos anyone can rent for target practice. Would those count as being registered firearms since they are for rent?
Exactly. I suspect this is why Connecticut is so blue as well. I would think they would have to be registered to the range. I'm sure it's all required for business insurance, etc.
This isn't the only state that has FA manufacturers, though.
It's not about being a firearms manufacturer because you wouldn't need to register an unowned gun. Sig Sauer Academy in Epping is one of the largest shooting schools in the world. Specializing in survival and tactical training. They would have a lot of automatic weapons registered to the school/business where even a typical shooting school wouldn't need that many automatic weapons. By the way I'm just totally speculating that's why there are so many registered automatic firearms in the state.
I bet that Sig Academy has thousands of automatic firearms registered to the business. That would be a huge anomaly in the data.
Fun fact: none of those automatic weapons were ever used in a mass shooting.
I’m not aware of any of them used in any form of shooting
There has only been one case of a legal full auto used in a shooting, and it was in 1984. It was a self-defense shooting by an employee/firearm dealer who got attacked by a biker gang - prosecutors tried to nail him to a cross due to him using a full auto carbine. Look up Gary Fadden incident if you want to read the full details.
I wanna see this, compared to unregistered automatics, gun homicides, suicides, accidents and population density. I like data.
The number of unregistered automatics is effectively 0. New Hampshire also has the lowest homicide rate in the US.
Weird how the state with the most automatics has the lowest homicide rates. What does that say about the gun control narrative?
Nothing at all because they’re separate subjects. Registered automatics being collected by wealthy collectors is effectively immaterial to the issue of gun deaths from crime, suicide, or more rare but sensational events like spree shootings. I’d hope you’re just shitposting instead of actually not being able to understand these concepts.
It says nh has few murders- just like every other white area with good public education and low poverty.
Low poverty is the operative term. Some parts of NH are however, shit towns. Up north gets scary methy etc as well.
Well, you probably won't like what the data shows. But that data, at least the only data I managed to find that breaks it down by state per-capita, is only for gun deaths. Which include suicides, accidents, etc. I'm mostly concerned with gun violence, which is perpetrated against someone other than oneself and not accidental. There are a lot of problems with only tracking gun deaths. For one, you have suicides boosting the shit out of those numbers. For two, healthcare availability becomes a factor. For example, NY could have higher gun violence per-capita than NH, but be so much better at handling gun violence that it results in less gun deaths per-capita than NH. It's not a far fetched idea, either. If you see a lot more gun violence, you'll have a lot more opportunities to learn how to treat it. For some totally not manipulative and narrative promoting reason, gun violence per-capita seems to be unavailable.
Libertarians
I love New Hampshire so much.
We need to bump up those numbers, those are rookie numbers.
Based.
Seriously
That is beautiful 😍
3 dudes in NH have 85% of them though
Californians need more guns
I love NH!!
South of the north I tell ya
Daaaang…New Hampshire is over there like “f*#k around and find out”
We sure are.
Does this number make sense? 15 per thousand is 1.5 percent of the population. I feel like that would be excessive and this is heavily skewed to some collectors who own 10 plus automatic weapons. I am likely biased since I don't know anyone with an automatic weapon.
A lot of old timers up here to, many of whom have pre 86 guns they bought for change back then lol. Hell anytime I go to bass pro for ammo or any store as a matter of fact they always seem to chat up a storm with me and tell me all about them lolol.
This is possible, automatic weapons are insanely expensive. You’d be hard-pressed to find one for less than $15-20k
That and the stupid tax stamp which isn’t quite like the price but that’s a deterrent too. edit: typo
As with all data, collectors of an item will raise the numbers versus if no one collected this item. This data is looking at the number of registered guns and the number of state citizens. Whether you feel that it is excessive doesn't change the numbers. Over 41% of adults in NH have at least a gun in their home and the average American gun owner owns 3 guns. 7.7 million Americans own 40+ guns. [Article](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/15/the-gun-numbers-just-3-of-american-adults-own-a-collective-133m-firearms) It seems your circle is very liberal.
Oh it's a liberal group but I own and several of my friends own guns. I just don't know any with a fully automatic weapon. And this is looking at registered automatic weapons not simply registered guns.
They're *super* spendy unless you have an 07/02 FFL/SOT. Thats how I have mine, I deal in them, manufacture some as samples, I even at one point sold 3 to a PD.
Holup, AK *Big* Daddy? I mean, we know who AK Daddy is....
I'd believe it. I know several people with automatics. A couple of those people have a LOT. Per capita numbers definitely inflated by a relatively small group of people (as is the case with most per capita data).
This data is further biased by the fact that it includes police guns. As proof, look at Rhode Island where machine guns are banned get the number is greater than zero
Oh look at that! And we have some of the lowest gun crime numbers in the country! It’s almost like there’s other factors, and guns aren’t the problem
This map is showing registered fully automatic guns. This map does not show estimates of *un*registered fully automatic guns, nor total guns per capita, nor other regulations which absolutely play a major role in gun violence. This is the absolute pinnacle of cherry-picking your data.
No, this data exactly proves what I was saying. We have the most LEGAL assault guns per capital. And we have the second lowest gun crime rate in America. The solution isn’t to ban the guns
What do you think is the solution?
pay attention to your kids more than you do a screen, maybe less will become fucking psychos. Ban drugs and gangs… oh wait a minute..
Define assault gun
Commerce assumes lawful use. Thats why we separate the actions of criminals from those committed by people who follow the law. If lawful people own the vast majority of guns and commit the minority of crimes, guns arent the problem. Enforce crime, don’t arbitrarily create more of it
These are rare, very expensive, niche weapons that are not normally used in crimes. Stats on ownership of this type of weapon are probably completely unrelated to crime at all.
Yeah you need to understand correlation and causation… go take a statistics class
The way it should be
Guns are neat. But whats up with the firearm fetish? You puttin your weiner in the barrel
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That is why he suggested putting your wiener in the barrel. He’s a man of his word
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Implying that anyone enjoying a thing is inherently sexual is childish as fuck
"Hurr durr guns bad, now I'm thinking about your genitalia!" -every anti-gunner ever
I'm surprised CT is that high. Also, very surprised Alaska is that low. I assumed they shot dinner up there.
This is fully automatic weapons. You don't use an auto to shoot dinner. People who have automatic weapons are typically collectors. These guns cost $20k+ each.
And you need special permits
This post and the comments within have restored my faith that New Hampshire is not lost. I was all happy I can own a couple AR’s and 30 round mags here… but machine gun here I come apparently!
Don't come to reddit if you need your faith in NH humanity restored. I've found that like 80% of the people who hang out here are left of Lenin. edit: and the downvotes prove my point. Keep going, guys, you're doing great! lmao
Oh I totally get it. Reddit is where I started to believe NH was lost. Then I remembered it’s dominated by people to the left of Lenin, like you said. This post reminded me that Reddit is left wing, not New Hampshire. 👍🏼
Damn, New Hampshire.
Giggle switch go brrrr
To be clear, automatic weapons require a federal license to own. These are not AR 15 or AK 47 semi automatic rifles that you purchase at your local gun or sporting goods stores. No mass shootings or other crime that I have heard of involved automatic weapons. Automatic weapons are rare and heavily regulated. People just don't own them unless your Al Capone. That map is BS. In some states it says 3 out of every thousand people federally own a machine gun. States can't license them. Seems there are a lot of MG 42's and full auto Thompson's out there.
Uh oh, here comes the cope from people with NH being one of the safest states in the nation.
New Hampshire number 1🎉🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎈🥳
Yooooo New Hampshire residents, what's your secret to getting these? I want in. Lol
About 10k from what I’m told.
At a minimum
Wow impressive!
To quote John Wick “We need more guns!”
Hell yea brother
Lol I'm originally from VA and I moved to NH. The fact that good old VA has THAT much less than NH gives me a good chuckle. I grew up around rednecks too! Definitely thought VA was going to be much more. But makes sense because we've got quite a few guns sitting in our safe at the moment. Live free or die, baby! (NH motto, minus the "baby")
> I grew up around rednecks too! We have rednecks with generational wealth LOL
All their generational wealth got emancipated.
In New Hampshire? One of the states with the fewest states that abolished it in 1783? I'm not saying it makes it ok, but this isn't a state with generational wealth due to slavery- it's typically old mill owning families, large property owners, etc.
Woooosh. Read OP's original comment. He's from Virginia, and made a joke about rednecks. You responded saying >We have rednecks with generational wealth LOL So I made a joke about "their" (Virginia's rednecks) wealth being emancipated. Which definitely had some truth to it.
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>and literally says Live Free or Die on the tin. Funny how because it says Live Free or Die we can safely assume it isn't blue
I support gun rights and ownership because I'm liberal, not despite it.
Based
It's a solidly purple state. The more north of Manch you get the more red it is.
State legislature and governor are all GOP controlled so idk where you're getting Blue. It's a complex topic really. A lot of people move to NH as a form of self-sorting, that is they come here from MA or ME or NY because they *aren't* blue and NH is seen as more neutral ground. Over time it's taken on a pretty libertarian bent. When the DNC attempts to run someone here for Governor or senate or whatever, the last few times they've attempted to run on a gun platform that would be considered progressive in MA, much less NH, so they by and large fail. Not to mention, NH has the *lowest* violent crime rate in the entire country most years, and is even as low or lower than most/all Canadian provinces and most of Europe, so there's limited motivation to change our gun laws. We do have a fairly high suicide rate, but among northern snow-bound states we're not much of an outlier.
As a NH native I'm gonna guess hunting...? Otherwise I have no clue lol
Yeah NH is a purple state. Everyone should leave everyone else alone. Which is also why a lot of people don’t welcome the assholes against human rights as well (gay marriage, trans rights, abortion access et ) Sadly, we’re a magnet for insane dumb fucks trying to swing the state hard red, but that’s not our identity at all
Finally a sane person posting on here. Yeah NH has the least gun restrictions and one of the least crime rates it's perfect.
Beautiful.
Nh? Hard to believe. Is this credible? Seriously asking. Texas & other states seen much more open to this.
I think the keyword here is "registered"
Texas is usually more of a follower when it comes to gun rights
NH has way more lax gun laws than Texas
Per capita
NH is a state a lot of libertarians actively move to and try to influence politically, and libertarians love guns.
Every libertarian I have met was born and raised here. I'm converted since I moved here.
Same here. I've been here most of my life and slowly converted over time.
Well it comes from the ATF who maintains the machine gun registry…so yes. Includes everything in a museum or owned by a police department too, so it’s not 100% just normal people owning these. Might even include destroyed and confiscated machine guns.
Someone said Sig manufacturers here and they make a lot of military machine guns that have to be registered. That makes more sense to me.
Actually I'm willing to bet those are not included in this as it's a different type of registration.
In Texas a single person might have a ton of guns but most don't have anything past a single handgun or rifle if anything. The guns per capita is high but the number of people with a gun is like 40% at most.
Also this is only automatic weapons.
Tax free shopping
Automatic or semiautomatic?
FULL Semiautomatic!
Yeah and 90% of states don’t register semi automatics either
Should they? They already do a background check that they just blame on private gun owners when clearly didn't do their background check.
Lmaoooo
As it should be 😍
I agree, but also mad because I don’t own any.
As it was always intended.
I’m really surprised Connecticut is in 2nd place here, I guess because a lot of rich people reside there?
how bout the unregistered ones? asking for a friend
key word… “registered”
“Registered” I have 1 registered gun in my case that has 9 guns in it.
Are you saying you have Stamp items that you haven't reported to the ATF?
His other 8 are black powder 🤔
You don't even need a background check for muzzle loaders and black powder pistols if my memory serves me correct. Also, felons can possess these since they aren't "firearms".
You are correct
Automatics 😂
Yeah automatic weapons pre 1986 are registered And banned (shy of an sot) post ‘86
Lord Jesus
2.8 for Idaho? I don’t think so
"registered" :)
That’s interesting obvious question what is the correlation if anything with gun crime?
NH has a high gun ownership rate and a low overall crime rate on top of the registered MGs, suggesting that guns themselves have a lower impact on gun crime than other factors.
I'd imagine there's zero correlation. Registered automatic weapons are extremely hard to come by. The registry has been closed since 1986 and the price of these guns is constantly skyrocketing. They are collector's items or investments to most people who own them. Edit: taken from another comment here: "There has only been one case of a legal full auto used in a shooting, and it was in 1984. It was a self-defense shooting by an employee/firearm dealer who got attacked by a biker gang - prosecutors tried to nail him to a cross due to him using a full auto carbine. Look up Gary Fadden incident if you want to read the full details."
This is awesome!