Following the CPRC study showing that there were about 11.1 million concealed handgun permits by the beginning of the year, I then showed that the number of concealed handgun permits in just seven states had increased by over 400,000 from the end of 2013 to July 2014. Since then Florida's permits have increased by another 50,000, Alabama's by almost 100,000, Utah's by 31,000, Minnesota's by about 2,800, and Illinois by about 50,000. It is my understanding that California's permits have increased by about 20,000 to over 50,000. That adds another over 250,000 permits from just four states. Taken together all this adds up to to well over 11.8 million permits. There is no doubt that other states have also seen a significant increase over the same period of time. Again, these numbers do not include the six states where people can carry without a permit nor do they include the numbers for a couple of other states that don't report their information.
Showing posts with label numberpermits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label numberpermits. Show all posts
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Monday, September 15, 2014
Data on the number of permits currently issued in Alabama counties is shown below. The state has a total of approximately 470,005 permits, about 12.6% of the population over 18 years of age. A couple of the counties have more than 18 percent of their adult population with permits.
The article in al.com notes that Alabama is number 1 in terms of the number of concealed handgun permits, but it is very likely that the six states that allow carrying without a permit have higher rates that people are carrying (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Montana (99.4% of the state), Wyoming, and Vermont). It would have been nice if the article had provided some balance and noted what most of the literature had found on crime rates. Donohue's claims about my work hadn't accounted for the impact of crack cocaine is simply disingenuous (for discussions in the 3rd edition of More Guns, Less Crime see here and here, but it was dealt with in my original research with David Mustard and the first edition of More Guns, Less Crime).
Thursday, September 4, 2014
This year there are about 2.4 million adults living in Orange County, California. Despite the "surge," there are few permit holders, representing just 0.07 percent of the adult population. Even if all those applying for permits had their requests granted, that would still mean just about one-tenth of one percent have a permit. The LA Times notes:
According to the analysis, permits are spread throughout the county, but certain cities — including Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Yorba Linda — have a higher concentration of licensees. Others, including Santa Ana and Garden Grove, have had much fewer approved permits. . . .Not to surprisingly, giving the training costs to get a permit, it is the well-to-do areas of the county that are getting the permits.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Click on above screenshots to enlarge them. It is pretty amazing that just seven states now have a total of just seven states account for over 5 million concealed handgun permits. Indiana has had about a 13 percent increase in the number of permits in just 9 months.
| latest | After about 6mnths or noted otherwise | |||
| Florida | 1,290,362 | 1,215,708 | 6% | |
| Indiana | 557,789 | 537,964 | 4% | |
| Michigan | 558,403 | 425,972 | 31% | |
| Minnesota | 175,026 | 159,968 | 9% | |
| Pennsylvania | 872,000 | |||
| Tennessee | 471,882 | 441,171 | 7% | |
| Texas | 708,048 | 584,850 | 21% | Change from 2012 to 2013 |
| Utah | 550,663 | 535,857 | 3% | |
| 5,184,173 | ||||
UPDATE: The number of permits in Lenoir County, NC has gone up 1,000% percent in 10 years.
The presence of crime is causing concealed weapons permits to rise. In the last 10 years permits have gone up 1000% in Lenoir County.UPDATE: Illinois now has seen about 84,000 permit applicants. Presumably almost all will have their permits approved. Still many fewer than the unrealistic prediction of 300,000 by the state police.
"They're applying for a concealed weapons permit because they want to be able to protect themselves and they want to be able to protect their families." Sheriff Chris Hill said.
In 2008, 210 people applied and in 2013 it jumped to more than 800 applicants. . . .
UPDATE: From the West Virginia Associated Press: It looks as if West Virginia has about 126,514 permits that were issued over the last five years and that there were large changes in the number of permits issued in 2012 and 2013. That would represent quite an increase from 92,000 active permit holders in 2011.
In 2009, county sheriffs’ departments issued 11,160 permits allowing residents to carry concealed handguns in most public places. In 2013, that number had jumped to 44,981.The largest increase was from 2012 to 2013, when the number of permits issued annually increased by more than 15,000, up from 29,712 in 2012.
Those numbers, compiled by the West Virginia State Police, are only the permits issued each year. A permit is valid for five years, so the total number of West Virginians licensed to carry concealed handguns is much higher.
While some may have been revoked or surrendered, a total of 126,514 permits were issued in the five years including 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. . . .
Minnesota permits by county
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Annual reports are available here for Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Utah.
Florida currently has 1,254,529 active permits (April 30, 2014), Michigan has 436,856 (May 1st, 2014), Minnesota 170,916 active permits in May 2014, Utah 535,857 permits. Kentucky had 203,266 permits on December 31, 2012, though it has definitely increased since then. These five states have more than 2,601,424 permits.
Florida currently has 1,254,529 active permits (April 30, 2014), Michigan has 436,856 (May 1st, 2014), Minnesota 170,916 active permits in May 2014, Utah 535,857 permits. Kentucky had 203,266 permits on December 31, 2012, though it has definitely increased since then. These five states have more than 2,601,424 permits.
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