2015: Guns by the Numbers

By Robert Farago

TTAG writer and open carry advocate Dean Weingarten has assembled some gun-related stats for your end-of-the-year dining and dancing measure. Make the jump to chart the ch-ch-ch-changes . . .

Total private guns in the United States, 390 million

Murder rate in the U.S. 2015 4.5 per 100,000 FBI
Murder rate in the U.S. 1993 9.5 per 100,000 FBI
Murder rate in Brazil (latest) 25.2 per 100,000 Wikipedia
Murder rate in Mexico 2012 21.5 per 100,000 Wikipedia

Number of people with Concealed Carry permits in the United States: 12.8 million CrimeResearch.org study

Number of States where no permit is required to carry concealed or openly: 10
CrimeResearch.org study

Number of states who issue carry permits – 49

Number of states where open carry of firearms is legal: 44 in 2015, 45 with the addition of Texas on 1 January, 2016. Opencarry.org map

Number of NICS background checks in 2015 22.6 million (pdf) FBI

Number of police killed with their own guns in 2014 – 1 <a class="colorbox" …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns