PA Bill Number: SB262
Title: In actions, proceedings and other matters generally, providing for extreme risk protection orders.
Description: In actions, proceedings and other matters generally, providing for extreme risk protection orders. ...
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: Feb 20, 2025
How Free Is Your State When It Comes To Gun Rights? :: 08/17/2016
The libertarian Cato Institute is out with a new list of the most free and least free U.S. states. Called “Freedom in the Fifty States”, the annual rankings entail everything from personal freedoms and business regulations to labor rules, drug arrests and charter schools.
The gun control category measures the direct costs of gun laws to gun owners and dealers, and weights the importance of various freedoms related to firearms as follows:
- Local gun ban: 1.0%
- Concealed-carry index: 0.4%
- Initial permit cost: 0.4%
- Firearms licensing index: 0.3%
- Waiting period for purchases: 0.3%
- Initial permit term: 0.2%
- Stricter minimum age: 0.2%
- Assault weapons ban: 0.1%
- Open carry index: 0.05%
- No duty to retreat: 0.05%
- Any other weapon: 0.04%
- Dealer licensing: 0.03%
- Built-in locking devices: 0.03%
- Nonpowder guns: 0.03%
- Restrictions on multiple purchases: 0.03%
- Background checks for private sales: 0.02%
- Registration of firearms: 0.02%
- Design safety standards: 0.01%
- Machine guns: 0.01%
- Ammo microstamping: 0.01%
- Large-capacity magazine bans: 0.01%
- Sound suppressor: <0.01%
- Short-barreled shotguns: <0.01%
- Short-barreled rifles: <0.01%
- .50 caliber ban: <0.01%
The most free state in the United States in the gun category is Vermont, followed by Wyoming, Arizona, Alaska, and New Hampshire.
The least free state for firearms is Hawaii, followed by California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
Check out how your state ranks regarding gun rights by scrolling over the map below.
Here is the list of states in order of gun freedom ranking.
1. Vermont
2. Wyoming
3. Arizona
4. Alaska
5. New Hampshire
6. South Dakota
7. Georgia
8. Kentucky
9. Alabama+21
10. Tennessee-1
11. Virginia-1
12. North Dakota
13. Colorado-2
14. West Virginia-1
15. Kansas
16. Maine-2
17. Indiana-1
18. Idaho-1
19. Washington-1
20. Pennsylvania-1
21. Utah-1
22. Nevada-1
23. Montana-1
24. Mississippi
25. South Carolina-2
26. Oregon-1
27. Oklahoma-1
28. New Mexico-1
29. Missouri+3
30. Ohio-2
31. Texas-2
32. Arkansas+2
33. North Carolina-2
34. Nebraska-1
35. Wisconsin
36. Michigan+1
37. Louisiana-1
38. Florida
39. Minnesota
40. Iowa
41. Delaware
42. New York
43. Connecticut+2
44. Maryland-1
45. Illinois+4
46. New Jersey
47. Massachusetts-3
48. Rhode Island-1
49. California-1
50. Hawaii
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