Worst States

BSB · #1

What are the worst States/Cities to live in if you are a gun owner. I know that California is at the top of the list but what are some others. I guess I would also want to know what states currently have CHL's at this time.

Thanks! BSB

jbirds1210 · #2

I believe that Illinois, Wisconsin, California, New York, and Kansas top the list....at least from what I have read. Take care.
Jason

Edit to add: As of last year....Louisiana!

John · #3

jbirds1210 wrote:I believe that Illinois, Wisconsin, California, New York, and Kansas top the list....at least from what I have read. Take care.
Jason

Edit to add: As of last year....Louisiana!

You left out Hawaii and New Jersey. I think Louisiana is fine as long as you are not in New Orleans.

nitrogen · #4

I'd add Maryland, Mass.,as well as most American territories.

Diode · #5

Once again I am glad ot be in Texas,

dws1117 · #6

Diode wrote:Once again I am glad ot be in Texas,

+ 1,000,000

We need the flag smilie with a Texas flag.

longtooth · #7

Another good idea. If we find it he will put it on here.

jimlongley · #8

Actually, when I moved from NY stste to IL, I thought I had died and gone to (hand)gun heaven. In NY you must have political pull to get issued a Pistol Permit in order to buy a handgun, in IL all you have to have is a FOID.

Chicago and some of its suberbs, OTOH, are real havens of anti-gun nuts.

bauerdj · #9

What is a FOID? By the way NY is not as bad as most people think outside of the NYC metro area.

Dave B.

longtooth · #10

Bauerdj, I have conversed w/ a few hunters in the up state NY area & they have all said the same. There is some great hunting up there & really gun friendly folks in the country. Just don't go to the N-CITY.

Texasdoc · #11

Father in Law lives i nWestern New York and the hunting is great and all the folks I have meet when I was there last are Pro Gun and Pro Hunting.

its just NY City where the anti's live .

FOID= I beleive a Firearms owners ID card. its a card issued by the state that states that you are OK to own a gun.

Doc

jimlongley · #12

bauerdj wrote:What is a FOID? By the way NY is not as bad as most people think outside of the NYC metro area.

Dave B.

A "Firearms Owner's ID" it is Illinois' permission card for one to purchase and possess firearms in IL.

When I was in NY, for a lot of years, I bought and sold long guns without any problem, but with an unblemished record, an Honorable Discharge, police experience, and a long standing career, it was impossible to secure a "Pistol Permit" because I was not politically connected - same story for most others.

In IL all I had to do was get a FOID, which wasn't any harder than getting a CHL in TX, and I could buy handguns.

bauerdj · #13

Sounds like you must have been in NYC. Gun laws for NYC are among the most restrictive in the nation. Nassau and Suffolk (and maybe Westchester) are pretty bad as well but nowhere near as bad as NYC. The rest of the state is actually not too bad at all. NYC actually goes as far as requiring a permit for a rifle or shotgun!

Dave B.

jimlongley · #14

bauerdj wrote:Sounds like you must have been in NYC. Gun laws for NYC are among the most restrictive in the nation. Nassau and Suffolk (and maybe Westchester) are pretty bad as well but nowhere near as bad as NYC. The rest of the state is actually not too bad at all. NYC actually goes as far as requiring a permit for a rifle or shotgun!

Dave B.

Nope, 150 miles north of NYC, which most upstaters consider to be a whole different state that should be divested.

I spent a couple of years as chairman of the "Albany County Pistol Defense Fund" which had an objective of getting judges to stop bench vetoing pistol permit apps by suing them. We had limited success.

Other than a few counties, if you did not have the right political connections you would not get a pistol permit.

revjen45 · #15

What makes Kansas suck now that they have passed shall issue? I may be moving there for a job.