MA: 7.8% Increase in Gun Ownership in 2015
By Dean Weingarten
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)-
In 2015, the number of Massachusetts legal gun owners increased nearly 8 percent, according to the Boston Globe. In Massachusetts, all legal gun owners are required to be licensed by the state. Massachusetts is one of a small minority of states that requires gun owners to be licensed. From bostonglobe.com: January 7, 2016
Tens of thousands of new gun licenses were issued to Massachusetts residents in 2015, continuing a recent surge, according to state data.
There were 342,622 active Class A firearms licenses statewide, according to figures provided by the Department of Criminal Justice Information Services earlier this month. That was up about 24,700, or 7.8 percent, from the same time a year ago.
The Class A licenses catch the important trend, because 90 percent of all gun licenses in the state are in that category.
This helps answer a question that has been raised by national polls and gun sales records. Gun sales are at record levels, and have increasing for a decade. The total number of private guns in the United States has increased by about 90 million in the last seven years. At the …Read the Rest
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