America’s Most Heavily Armed Counties

[Chris C]

Came across this in my FB newsfeed. 

49th Sarpy County
67th Lancaster County
80th Douglas County

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/09/10/americas-heavily-armed-counties-surprise/

http://www.city-data.com/top2/co8.html

[Dave1215]

Be very careful about putting unrelated statistics together, but ....

.... interesting to see that Sarpy County is #49 most armed in the Nation while both Papillion and LaVista were named two of the 10 safest towns in Nebraska (see below link)

http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/safest-places-in-nebraska/

[greg58]

Be very careful about putting unrelated statistics together, but ....

.... interesting to see that Sarpy County is #49 most armed in the Nation while both Papillion and LaVista were named two of the 10 safest towns in Nebraska (see below link)

http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/safest-places-in-nebraska/

An armed society is a respectful society.

Greg58

[AWick]

I think that some of these stats are wrong. Where I grew up in Nebraska, out in the panhandle,  I literally did not know a single household that explicitly did NOT have a firearm. Even if they weren't enthusiasts they usually had a 22lr or 12ga from grandpappy handed down. Seriously I didn't have a single classmate that i knew of that didn't have a gun in the house or had talked about gun ownership. I grew up in the largest town in a very small county and would put that estimate close to at least 60%...

[Hardwood83]

No idea how accurate  those numbers are, but I suspect there are a LOT more guns around then egg-head researchers are able to tabulate.

[ILoveCats]

Note from the recent, exhaustive Gallup poll that I and others posted here that you can't even remotely trust gun self-reporting right now.  In the Gallup poll most of the responses were decidedly "pro" gun.  More people said they were buying, or interested in buying, or were pro-second-amendment, in the past few (Obama administration) years. 

HOWEVER... to the questions of 'do you have a gun in the house', etc., all of a sudden the upward trend turned down.   Basically.... people are less likely to answer a pollster on that question right now because they don't want the data out there.  Probably for reasons ranging from worries that the firearm might be made illegal, so basic privacy ones.  (Witness the websites and media outlets that have published gun owners / CHP permit holders addresses.)

[Chris C]

In our day and age of the NSA and other such organizations who are those people kidding who want to keep it a secrete they own a firearm. lol

[DenmanShooter]

I heard there have been a lot of boating accidents recently.

[Husker_Fan]

Sarpy would be No. 1 if they would count all the nukes under STRATCOM's control.

[CitizenClark]

Places I've lived:

#29. St. Tammany Parish, LA – 42.5% of households armed
#33. Jefferson County, AL – 41.0% of households armed
#67. Lancaster County, NE – 31.8% of households armed

[GreyGeek]

I heard there have been a lot of boating accidents recently.

Ya.  Think it would be profitable to start a salvage business? 

[Sandhillian]

I'd have to agree with previous posters, I don't think these numbers are very accurate.  Per capita, I would guess that Sarpy, Lancaster, and Douglas counties have some of the lowest firearm ownership in the state.  Logic says that Nebraska's rural counties would have a much higher rate of firearm ownership per capita.

It would be interesting to see how the survey was conducted, and if most counties were actually left out of it.

[Mntnman]

In our day and age of the NSA and other such organizations who are those people kidding who want to keep it a secrete they own a firearm. lol

I sold all of mine to a sailor in a white hat.