The Associated Press has an article on Florida approaching 2 million concealed handgun permit holders. The attached national graph is from the Associated Press article. Florida had a total of 1,971,997 currently valid concealed weapon permits as of March 31, according...
While many are focusing on the small drop in NICS background checks over the last couple of months, the number of concealed handgun permits have continued to go up. Here is part of a story that appeared on Tampa Bay's CBS TV (WTSP) on April 10, 2017. Florida's...
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: The number of Minnesotans who are legally entitled to carry a handgun reached an all-time high in 2014, with 184,895 active permits by the end of the year, according to a new report from the state. The end-of-year total is more than...
From an article at Fox News: In 2010, Iowa's numbers were just shy of 40,000, but according to data from the Iowa Department of Public Safety, last year the number crested 220,000. In 2011 alone, the number of permits issued in the state more than doubled. Nationally,...
Portland's GoLocalPDX has a lead news story on the growth of concealed carry permits in the Portland area. Not enough information is presented in the article to determine the permit growth rate for all three counties, but Multnomah and Washington counties had a 41...
Given the small percentage of Illinoisans who have obtained a concealed handgun permit, it is very doubtful that permitted concealed could have a significant impact on crime rates, though it might put criminals on notice and there were a few startling cases of self...
On August 1, 2013, Alabama moved from a discretionary concealed handgun permit rule to one where sheriffs had no discretion (copy of law is here). The number of permits in these six counties have increased by only 4 percent, much less than the increase that we are...