Gun retailers will now be going through New York State Police instead of the National Instant Criminal background check system, or NICS. The state will also begin requiring checks not just for firearms but ammunition purchases and charging fees of $9 and $2.50 respectively each time.
Lately there has been a lot of people making dot-density maps up, with one dot representing a person or a series of people. I thought those maps were kind of interesting, so I decided to play with QGIS and see what I could make. I found a website that offered an estimate of what percentage of a state's residents own firearms and multiplied it against population. As I figured it would make too many dots to do one dot per gun owner, I made a map of one dot per 1,000 gun owners in each state -- giving people a relative density of gun ownership in each state.
Data Source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state