New Jersey has now put together a website on their concealed carry permits. Since the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, New Jersey has approved 34,589 concealed handgun permits had denied 246 applications — an acceptance rate of 99.3%. In the twelve months before Bruen, there was an average of 50.8 permit applications per month. In the twelve months afterwards, there were 1,657.8, a massive increase of 32.6 times. While data on the approval rate before Bruen isn’t provided, it is very likely well below the 99.3% post-Bruen rate, so the gap in the rate of permits is likely much greater than the 32.6-fold difference.
However, almost half of those denials are problematic. 112 of the denials were for “public health, safety, and welfare” reasons. New Jersey’s law explains: “To any person where the issuance would not be in the interest of the public health, safety or welfare because the person is found to be lacking the essential character of temperament necessary to be entrusted with a firearm.” But the Bruen decision made it clear that only “objective” standards can be used in denying permits.
The average age for permit holders after Bruen was 47.9 years old. Blacks and Asians are underrepresented compared to their shares of the population (blacks 13.1% of permit holders and 15.4% of the population, Asians 2.3% of permit holders and 10.5% of the population, while whites are slightly overrepresented (56.2% of permit holders and 52.9% of the population). In addition, while 28% of permit holders nationwide are women, in New Jersey, it is only 6.8%.
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