The UK's Finest Independent Forum for Shooters and Gun Owners. Est 2010.

I thought this would be of interest to some on here.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog ... ?fb=native

Good find. I have seen the data before but not mapped like this. Outside of Cleveland and the City of London my county has the lowest number of FAC holders/100k population

Pity Scotland wasn't included, but I have to wonder what point the Guardian was trying to make?

I imagine they were mainly just trying to get people frothing with the sentence that goes something like "overall firearm applications are up but so are the amount of revocations".

I can imagine the facestalk updates after the hard of thinking read it,

"OMG moar peeple are buyin guns than eva why wud the crazed mentalists wants guns!!!!1!one!"

Wonder what the "unlicensed" map would be like........

Second worst area is the NW; better do something about that....

Nice! My area is light blue. We obviously need more guns issued. Good ammunition for the FLO :shakeshout:

C

whoowhoop wrote:Wonder what the "unlicensed" map would be like........

I'd guess at pretty much the exact opposite of the licensed one.

Michael Sproul wrote:I imagine they were mainly just trying to get people frothing with the sentence that goes something like "overall firearm applications are up but so are the amount of revocations".

Pretty much. The Guardian has a history of using "data journalism" to push its own editorial line. In this case, "OMG look how many evil guns there are in the UK!"

Why so negative? Look at all these hundreds of thousands of guns that are all around you not killing anyone!