State by State Gun Ownership Assessment

Which States are the Worst (and Best) for Gun Ownership?

​Guns & Ammo has been publishing their evaluation of the gun laws of each State for the past six years, and on 31 October 2018 they published an article [“Best States for Gun Owners (2018)”] by Keith Wood with this year’s evaluation. 

As with previous years their evaluations are based on the following 5 categories:

• Right to Carry
• Black Rifles
• NFA
• Castle Doctrine
• Miscellaneous

 
As always there’s a lot of great information – not only on a State-by-State basis - but on the overall trends across the US – since many times legislation that successfully passes in one State gets fed to anti-gun organizations in other States to see if they can get it passed too. Not to spoil the article – but here’s a summary table with their overall ratings - sorted from Worst to Best :

If you want to read the entire Guns & Ammo article (which we highly recommend) you can find it here:
 
https://www.gunsandammo.com/editorial/best-states-for-gun-owners-2018/327233