The "gun-friendly" United States

I live in Wyoming. With some room for debate (our permitless carry is citizen-only) we are one of the most gun-friendly states in the entire union, on the order of Alaska or Arizona. There are very, very few restrictions.

We border a bunch of very gun-friendly states as well, which makes travel very pleasant. I can go two states in most directions and have my Wyoming CHL (carry license) honored (I got mine before we went permitless).
 
As a tourist you're limited.
Just about any state has ranges where you can rent guns. I don't know of one that doesn't. They are all open to foreigners.

Lots of folks in the US are willing to let people shoot their guns. That's true of any state. Start making friends.:)

You can bring your own guns over for hunting or sanctioned sporting events. Some states are better for the former than others. Any state could have a shooting competition.

No state, to my knowledge, is gun friendly enough to let you buy a gun and carry concealed.

So for the purposes of tourism, all the states are equally as gun friendly.
 
I have soft spot for VT - driven through touristy, like their guns laws and have studied their fine artisanal cheeses.

Many gun friendly states produce award winning cheeses. Oregon, TX and VT have.

Is there a correlation? Probably not. :D
 
I said GENERAL rule of thumb.

""North" is pretty vague in a country the size of the US. If we're counting the Pacific northwest and New England, then yes (except Vermont which is very gun-friendly).
If we're looking at Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, Alaska - all very gun-friendly."

Counter that with Wisconsin and Michigan. Central, and not particularly gun friend.

Parts of New England are gun friendly. Other parts are Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.

If you really want a good look at how friendly/unfriendly a state is, I'm going to suggest the Brady Campaign's "state score card."

http://www.bradycampaign.org/stategunlaws/scorecard

Some of the states that they consider to be "friendly," though, I would never consider to be friendly states.
 
So for the purposes of tourism, all the states are equally as gun friendly.
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See the country and don't worry too much about ownership laws because they won't concern you as far as your rental/range shooting goes. The only exception might be NY. I've recall reading something about having to take classes and only being able to shoot .22s (may be NYC only).
 
As said, I wouldn't expect to be allowed to carry a handgun as a tourist. You made the interesting point of saying that as a visitor, I would be allowed to go to a range and rent, that would make me happy enough.

When I say that I'm more interested in visiting the "gun friendly" America, is because I'd like to see those places where there is a gun culture, which is, IMO, quite rooted in your traditions. And I am a man interested in traditions. People come to Spain and are interested in flamenco and bullfighting, and that's just a SMALL part of our culture, which happens to be the one that was more publicized. If they stay for more than a week and head north, for example, they end up discovering things they wouldn't have expected. The Celt background in the north, for example, religious art, sanctuaries, fortresses and castles, palaces, etc... My friend from Chicago has a Scottish background and was quite surprised when I gifted him a CD of a well-known bagpiper that comes from the same region I do. Same thing here. People here head for NYC (yes, I understand the difference between the city and the State ;)), but don't seem too interested in visiting the part of the country that, as far I as know, you guys call "Dixie". And of course that I'd like to visit NYC, but I have a feeling that I'll feel more of the "real thing" in the south, or in other gun-friendly States you have mentioned.

Thanks for the inputs, I honestly appreciate.
 
I'd bet that even California is more "gun friendly" than most countries. For a state, New Jersey is probably about as bad as it gets....but then again, who the heck wants to go to New Jersey?
 
I even would be surprised that I would be allowed to hunt.
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You would be suprised at the huning available to non-resident hunters. The western states all have hunting oportunities available. Hunting may be an excellent way to plan a trip. Book a hunt and then tour before and after your dates. Here is a link to the Wyoming outfiters and guides Association:

http://www.wyoga.org/

You can book a hunt and then see yellowstone!
 
AH! A man after history....


The East and North East states would be an excellent place for some firearms history tours. As mentioned, the NRA museum is not far from Washington, DC and there are several firearms factories in the NorthEast, including the Remington factory which is only about 40 miles from me.

However, for the person interested in exploring firearms history, I doubt there's a BAD place to go in the USA. Some one can probably come up with some part of America that doesn't have some important firearms related history but between the inventors themselves, the factories and the wars we fought with the British, the American Indians, the Mexicans, ourselves... the Spanish (sorry about that one by the way;))...

Anyway, lots of history, everywhere.
 
MA, NY as others have indicated arent gun friendly, Washington DC, and various areas of the state of Kalfornia are also very anti gun..... Even in the face of various court victories...
 
Hej Nodeste! From the Great State of Washington again...welcome. Please come visit, I am sure you will enjoy yourself, and, you might be surprised where you, as a tourist can carry. (including in WA)

Between www.handgunlaw.us and www.opencarry.org, they have summeries, and links to the laws. As has been said before, Spanish is not a problem, but the Spanish you hear here is NOT Castillian Spanish (unless you go to Miami)

Anyway, my suggestion is you rent a motorhome, start on the east coast, go south until you get to Arizona, go north until you get to Washington, then go back through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.

If you like hiking and mountains, OR, WA, ID and MT cannot be beat. Stop in and say hej! We got a place for a motorhome to park, and if no motorhome, we have a guest bedroom in our cabin up on our little mountain. Ghost towns, gold mines and mountains, can't beat that eh?
 
^ I call that hospitality and good manners :D

From what I've seen, renting a motorhome in the US is far cheaper than it is in Europe. It definitely looks like the way to go.
 
If you want firearm history,,,

It's difficult to beat the J. M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma.

It's billed as the "...the largest private gun collection in the world..."

I've been there several times,,,
It's almost impossible to see all of the guns in one day.

Then there is the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum,,,
Formerly the OKlahoma Cowboy Hall of Fame,,,
In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Not so much gun related,,,
But cowboy all the way.

These two places would be good stops on any gun-related tour.

Aarond

Aarond
 
I haven't seen it mentioned but I think PA has decent gun laws and some good hunting as well.
 
Come on down to Texas I live in a very small town great crowd to be around very gun friendly cause everyone you talk to is carrying. lol and we have a few ranges around and I would love to take Ya to a range and shoot all you want... anything from old cowboy guns to the moderen stuff... most of texas is gun friendly we just got the wrong people telling us where and how to carry. Instead of reading what our forefathers wrote 228 years ago. But on my own property I carry out in open and proud of it...
 
I've found that renting a car and staying in cheap hotels was less expensive than renting a motor home. Cheaper still are rail passes and camp sights.

There's lots to see here. Take your time and don't try to stuff too many things into one trip.
 
Motor homes are gas hogs, for one thing.

For another thing, they really work best if you tow a smaller vehicle for driving around when you get to a place you'd like to explore - but that requires a second rental and a trailer or tow-bar.

Next, motor homes require you to connect and disconnect sewer lines at each stop, which frankly is not my idea of fun. Let's see, hotel pool or bar, or hooking up sewage... hmmm.... which do I prefer?

Last, hotels have much better beds, generally speaking.

I'd rent a comfortable vehicle, and stay at decent hotels, and probably spend less in the aggregate than the motor home guy.

To each his own.
 
The three northern New England states are FAR more gun friendly than any of the three southern ones. Vermont, while pretty much gone over to the Barking Moonbat column politically, maintains its gun friendly status nonetheless. New Hampshire is extremely gun friendly -- with Open Carry, Extended Castle Doctrine and, soon, permit-less Concealed Carry (if you qualify to purchase a firearm you'll be deemed qualified to carry same in any manner, openly or concealed -- much like Vermont and Alaska on this score :) but licenses will still be available for those who have to travel to the (few) states that recognize the NH license).

Southern New England, especially the Peoples Republic of Mass., are pretty much a lost cause.
 
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