The U.S. Gun Sellers Map
These days it seems that the solely interactive maps coming out of the USA are related to mass-shootings, gun homicides too other gun related maps. Here's unopen to other one.
The Oregonian's Gun Sellers inwards the United States map shows the let on of licensed gun sellers per 100,000 people at county level. If y'all mouse-over a county on the map y'all tin toilet persuasion the let on of gun sellers inwards the county too the full population.
One of the big questions hither must last whether the let on of licensed importers, pawnshops too sellers of firearms inwards a county genuinely has whatsoever trial on the let on of gun crimes inwards the area. The Oregonian's own US Gun Deaths Map 2004-2010 provides a great comparison. This map shows the average let on of gun deaths per 100,000 county residents. The map hence does supply a proficient overview of where the close gun deaths are occurring, inwards proportion to the population.
If y'all compare the 2 maps it seems that at that topographic point may last unopen to correlation betwixt the let on of gun sellers inwards unopen to counties too the let on of gun deaths - simply non inwards many other areas. For example, inwards unopen to of the north-western states at that topographic point are a high let on of gun sellers too a high proportion of gun deaths. However, if y'all await at the gun homicides map on the Oregonian y'all volition encounter that those north-western states genuinely bring a lower than average let on of gun homicides. The bulk of those gun deaths inwards the north-west come upward from people killing themselves alongside guns.
The southern states tend to bring the highest gun homicides per population. If y'all await at the choropleth map of gun sellers y'all tin toilet encounter that the S inwards full general genuinely has a lower than average let on of gun sellers per population. So the link betwixt the let on of licensed gun sellers too the let on of gun homicides inwards a county appears to last pretty weak.
