Survey finds Alaska most dependent on gun industry

By Christen Smith

Source: WalletHub
A survey published Wednesday recognized Alaska as the state most dependent on the gun industry.
The idea, said Richie Bernardo, a senior writer for WalletHub, is to identify which states’ economies depend most on guns as the industry faces a lull under the new presidential administration.
“Gun sales are down since Donald Trump won the White House,” Bernardo writes. “And while that’s good news to some, it could be a bad sign for state economies relying heavily on the firearms industry.”
WalletHub analysts ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia on a score of 0-100 using a weighted system consisting of three broad categories: gun politics (30 points), gun prevalence (35 points) and firearms industry (35 points).
Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and Idaho swept the top five, with Alaska leading the pack at a total weighted score of 80.02. Alaska outranked all others for its rate of gun ownership and came in second for the “highest total taxes paid by firearms industry per capita,” edged out by Wyoming.
California, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Rhode Island rounded out the bottom five with scores of less than 20 points each.
The survey doesn’t provide in-depth numbers to support its decision to rank

Source: Guns.com