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...
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Jews in New York City are Applying for Concealed Handgun permits
Here is a piece that is in the Wall Street Journal. . It’s Sunday morning at Manhattan’s Westside Rifle & Pistol Range, where I’ve come for a safety class as part of my application for a license to carry a concealed firearm. I’m one of at least 10 Jewish men in...
Jews in South Florida are Arming Themselves
With the rise of anti-semitism, Jews are doing the smart thing and arming themselves. . “To be honest with you, I hate guns,” Peter, 76, shouted over the sound of gunshots Saturday afternoon as his wife took aim at a target at Gun World in Deerfield Beach. “But it’s...
After Mass Public Shooting in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu announces that “Firearm licensing will be expedited and expanded in order to enable thousands of additional citizens to carry weapons”
Israel just had a mass public shooting where seven people were murdered. Compare Israel's response to that in California, where they have just had several mass public shootings. In California, few people have a concealed handgun permit. Half Moon Bay is in San Mateo...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says that gun background checks will look to see if people are “espousing philosophies that indicate they have been radicalized”
So who is going to decide if someone holds "radical" views? Democrats are claiming that people who believe that there is significant vote fraud are "anti-Democratic." Are they too radical? “I’ve called upon and am working closely with our Attorney General to identify...
Last year because Philadelphia shutdown permitting, the city saw a 19% drop in concealed handgun permits even as gun sales jumped by 158%
Last year we put together a list of states that stopped issuing concealed handgun permits. While Pennsylvania issued more permits, police in Philly and other Pa. counties stopped issuing license-to-carry permits to gun owners amid the coronavirus outbreak. It appears...
Supreme Court agrees to hear case on what it means to “bear” arms
In the 2008 Heller decision, Scalia noted: At the time of the founding, as now, to “bear” meant to “carry.” See Johnson 161; Webster; T. Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1796); 2 Oxford English Dictionary 20 (2d ed. 1989) (hereinafter Oxford)....
Apple’s Chief Security Officer and a Local Businessman Charged with Bribery for CCW Licenses, the problem is with the discretion
Do you think that Apple’s Chief Security Officer, Thomas Moyer, could pass a background check? How about the four executives at Apple that Moyer was trying to get approval to have permits? Do you think that if Apple’s Chief Security Officer and other executives could...
Coronavirus: Some States have stopped issuing Concealed Handgun Permits
In 16 Constitutional Carry states, you don't need a permit to carry in the state, and in Montana, you don't need a permit to carry in about 99.4% of the state. But in the rest of the country, you need a permit to carry concealed. Partial list of states (We will update...
28 month delay to get a concealed handgun permit in Riverside County, California
From the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California, which is located in Riverside County: It was the summer of 2016 when Steve Perkio, a retired construction worker with a love for the outdoors, walked into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department headquarters with his...