No surprise here…

Concealed carry permits top sixteen million!

The more interesting fact, the two fastest growing groups are…

Females and Blacks!

Full article, HERE.

The left/MSM keep saying there will be blood in the streets, so we should be ankle deep by now…

BUT, concealed handgun permit holders are extremely law abiding, the analysis shows. The percent of permit holders who are charged or convicted of a felony has fallen: In 2015 it was 0.0123; in 2016 the percent was 0.0092 percent.

Those numbers, just like the numbers of defensive gun uses each year are NEVER in any of the Left/MSM reports…

In other news, Florida has their act together with respect to the veterans and active duty folks!

Florida has fast-tracked concealed-weapons licenses to 82,000 military members and honorably discharged veterans since terror-related shootings at a pair of military installations in Tennessee two years ago. State Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, who along with Gov. Rick Scott helped expedite the permitting process as part of the state’s reaction to the shootings in Chattanooga, Tenn., made an appearance Tuesday to discuss the effort, which has played a part in Florida’s increased number of people allowed to carry concealed firearms… Since Putnam first won statewide office in 2010, the number of concealed-weapons licenses has soared from about 800,000 to more than 1.78 million. Putnam’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issues the licenses. The tens of thousands of active-duty military members and veterans getting expedited permits has come as the state has seen “heavy” demand for concealed-weapons licenses, Putnam said…

Now if the bases would allow carry… sigh

Comments

No surprise here… — 16 Comments

  1. Yes, Jim. Because you cannot bring personal weaponry on Federal/Military Bases, I cannot regularly carry in my car because we always stop stop at the base to check the mail at my POB. Drat & Double Drat…

  2. I am seeing more and more people carrying their weapon of choice on their side or inside the belt. I am sure there are more with ankle holsters… like my son-in-law, a retired cop.

  3. Putnam is running for Governor and is making all the proper moves toward Gun Owners. Let’s hope it is not all talk.

  4. The base commander at JBER, here, ordered personnel who live off-base to surrender their personal firearms to the base armory. No word on what percentage actually complied, if any.

      • Sheesh! My Uncle Jim was Post Engineer at Elmendorf AFB in the early ’60s. Most quarters had, at a minimum, a large bore rifle. And large bore handguns were common in vehicles. Particularly those who used to visit more remote areas of the base. Moose and bear don’t give a flying fig about base commanders.

    • That is over the top and beyond belief! That may not even be a legal order. Sort of like what the base commander (SAC) at Dyess AFB did in 1984 or 85. He threatened to kick anyone assigned who did not present “proper” Air Force appearance out of the Air Force then and there even though they met weight and fitness standards. This was all in preparation for receiving the B1-B. I think he was even going to give them a less than honorable discharge. He was gone two weeks later.

  5. Joe- I know! Every time I go to the Commissary or the VA clinic, I have to go home and take the carry piece off… sigh

    CP- Galco ankle holsters… Just sayin!

    Miguel- One hopes!

    Rev/WSF- Yeah, right… I’d say less that 5%, if that.

  6. As a fellow retiree, what can we do to change on base carry? One thing I know of is to get the federal law that prevents bringing a firearm on federal property changed to at least allow people with carry permits or allowed to carry by the state that the federal property is in to bring their gun on the property but leave it in the vehicle. By the interpretations of the pertinent federal law even driving through a post office with a gun is an infraction of this law.

  7. Stretch/Bill- Yeah, one has to wonder…

    BillB- No idea, that is a DOD level decision, and I ‘know’ the USAF will fight it, tooth and nail… sigh

  8. It comes down to the same thing as everything else – contact your Congressfolk and keep asking them to push for it. It might not hurt to also contact groups like NRA-ILA and ask them to to represent military and veteran members to get the moratoriums lifted.

  9. It would appear that, even though they are not in uniform, honorably discharged veterans remain on duty.

  10. Currently, the decision is at the Base Commander level. Dyess and Hurlburt Field allow those with a permit to carry on the installation in their vehicle. You are “supposed” to secure your firearm in your vehicle when you get to your destination. Some facilities are posted (Commissary, SCIFs, etc)

  11. Hey Old NFO;

    Stuff like that is at the base commanders purview to follow the state law. Most of them are risk adverse to the nth degree and will say “no” rather than take a chance. If they say no and something happens, they can say “Hey I followed the law” and they are immune from criticism. Companies follow the same logic because it covers them from lawsuits. It is crappy but until there is a paradign shift in mindset, it ain’t going to change…

  12. I got an Arkansas CHCL four years ago. Arkansas is one of the states that requires a training class, so I duly signed up and paid for one. It was actually relevant and useful which was somewhat surprising…

    The instructor mentioned that this was the first class he’d taught in a couple of years that wasn’t mostly female. I’d already noted that they taught women-only classes twice a week…

    Demographics of my particular class were more than half male in their early twenties, most of the rest women in their mid-thirties to mid-forties.

    Arkansas doesn’t make CHCL demographic information available, but the prevailing opinion is that about 2/3 of licensees are female.