Alt History Challenge: With a POD after 1810, have a country with as high personal gun ownership as the US in OTL.
Limitation. This nation can never be part of the USA and This nation's land must be at least half outside the current USA borders.
So an independent Texas that was never part of the US with more than half the land in OTL Mexico would work *if* the personal gun ownership is kept as high as the US. I *think* this is the most likely way, but any other suggestions?