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    [OC] Dichte von Waffengeschäften in den USA


    [OC] Dichte von Waffengeschäften in den USA

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    1. VeridionData on

      Sources & methodology:

      ATF Federal Firearms Licensee listing (Jan 2025), filtered to Type 01 (Dealers) and Type 02 (Pawnbrokers), 53,235 records total. County assignment via FIPS codes embedded in each license number. Cross-checked with Veridion business profiles. Population from the Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates. Map projection and county boundaries from us-atlas/TIGER shapefiles.

      Big caveat: ~57% of FFLs operate from residential addresses („kitchen-table dealers“), so this overstates actual walk-in gun shops. A single FFL can be anything from a Cabela’s to a guy selling out of his garage.

      National average is 1.6 per 10k residents, but the median county sits at 3.3/10k because rural counties pull it way up. Wyoming leads at 8.8/10k, New Jersey is at 0.25/10k. 75 counties have zero FFLs. Maricopa County, AZ, has the most in absolute terms (622).

      Tools: Python, D3.js, Puppeteer for the PNG. Built with Claude.

    3. ovirt001 on

      You’ll likely find the locations line up with the populations of predators. A gun in the wilderness makes a lot of sense when you can encounter bears, wolves, and wild cats.

    4. runnerd81 on

      The fact that the metric is gun dealers per residents makes it a little confusing to look at because it doesn’t tell us the density of people in those areas so it’s hard to gauge how many gun dealers in total are in each area. I would have liked ig they also layered on population density or also provided an outright number of locations per area

    5. thenasch on

      The problem with this presentation is western states have big counties, which visually exaggerates the difference in density of gun stores.

    7. geneticswag on

      Veridion has some piss poor visualization specialists. You need to know geographic density to make sense of this – Europeans gotta be confused.

    8. Niro5 on

      Hamilton county new york is the one yellow spot in New York. It is very rural and has about 5,000 residents.

    9. Quesabirria on

      Noticing the chart is gun dealers per 10k population, I’d bet that many or maybe most of those gold counties don’t even have 10,000 people

    10. TristanDuboisOLG on

      This “license”, is an FFL, something that some people need in order to simply own certain firearms.

      This is not indicative of actual storefronts.

    13. rice_cracker3 on

      Would you look at that, another population density map. No surprise there.

    15. Affectionate-Map2583 on

      I this map is not accurate with the number of actual gun stores. FFL holder as „gun dealer“ doesn’t necessarily mean they have a gun store. There are a lot of people who get their FFL to make it easier to become a collector, and don’t sell anything to the general public or have a store. There are also situations where an entity may be listed as a gun dealer, but doesn’t sell any guns to the public, such as the FFL that the non-profit I work for has. We only use it to pay less for guns that we raffle off at a few fundraisers. We transfer less than 10 per year, rifles and shotguns only.

      That said, there’s no way the maker of this map could know that and there’s no way to separate the data out other than trying to vet each name on the list individually.

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