NFA Numbers
According to the figures published in Vol. 10, No. 5, of Small Arms Review, Texas has 53,018 items on the NFRTR, with the next closest state being Georgia with 41,773. Texas barely edged out Virginia for MGs with 21,980 vs. 21,951. As for AOWs, only California, with 3,493, beat out Texas’s 3,413. Only Virginia had more SBRs (3,525) than Texas (2,033), but a few states had more than Texas’s 5,019 SBSs. Texas had far and away the most silencers with 20,573, which accounted for 39% of Texas’s NFA items (bettered by only Idaho (imagine that), where 46% of all NFA were silencers).
Interesting. I wonder why Cali has so many AOWs? I guess it’s all they can get there?
January 9th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Given that the population of Texas is so large, other states have far more NFA weapons per capita.
California’s NFA weapons reside mainly in the hands of movie makers, I would guess. We make more sales (firearm accessories) in California than any other state, followed by Texas and Florida. That pretty well follows with the respective total populations.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I yahoo’d “AOWs” and reference no. 6 was SaysUncle. You’re everywhere lately. Pretty cool.