Data Point - Concealed Carry Permits - Granite Grok

Data Point – Concealed Carry Permits

Abstracted from Fox NewsConcealed handgun permits surging, blacks, women lead growth

  • Concealed handgun permits in the United States soared by 1.83 million since last July,
  • New record for the fourth consecutive year
  • Concealed handgun permit holders in the country = 16.3 million
  • Largest rate of growth among women and African-Americans, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said.
  • More than 6 percent of American adults hold CCW licenses
  • Outside the restrictive states of California and New York, that figure rises to about 8 percent.

This next one is my favoritist one as a come back to all of those “Rivers of Blood” h8ters of the Second Amendment:

  • Percent of permit holders who are charged or convicted of a felony in 2015 it was 0.0123; in 2016 the percent was 0.0092 percent.

This next one, too:

  • In Florida and Texas, permit holders are convicted of misdemeanors and felonies at one-sixth of the rate at which police officers are convicted
  • In states that record gender data for permit holders, women account for 36 percent of the total number of permit holders. Eight states had data from 2012 to 2016 and they saw a 326 percent faster increase in permits among women than among men.
  • From 2012 to 2016, the number of blacks who have permits grew 30 percent faster than whites who have them.
  • Asians appear to be the group that has experienced the largest increase in permitted concealed carry permits.
  • During the eight years from 1999 to 2007, the number of permits increased by about 240,000 annually. During the next four years, the number of permits surged by 850,000 annually. Then, in 2012 and 2013, the yearly increase accelerated to 1.5 million. Record increases after that: 1,690,000 in 2015, 1,730,000 in 2016, and 1,787,115 in 2017.

 

 

 

 

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