Concealed Carry Almost Triples since 2007

[cclaxton]

http://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/stud...carry-soaring/
This may explain why we are seeing a lot more new shooters in IDPA.
Cody

[Bigguy]

5.2% of the total adult population has a permit.

That's 1 in 20 people. While 5% doesn't sound like a lot, if 1 in every 20 people I see in Walmart are carrying that's a considerable amount of firepower. If I was a criminal, I think I'd consider a career change.

[TGS]

That's 1 in 20 people. While 5% doesn't sound like a lot, if 1 in every 20 people I see in Walmart are carrying that's a considerable amount of firepower. If I was a criminal, I think I'd consider a career change.

At the same time, how many of 1 in 20 people who have a permit actually carry?

[Bigguy]

At the same time, how many of 1 in 20 people who have a permit actually carry?

Good question. Probably not as many as I'd hope.

[Peally]

Hopefully they all get trained up, that many competent shooters in a community is an asset.

I fear about 80% of them will carry and after 5 years and 200 rounds they'll still classify IDPA novice. Hopefully the other 20% get roped up in USPSA or whatever and really excel. Personally I'm noticing a respectable number of young (high school) shooters in the area, hopefully it keeps up.

[45dotACP]

That's 1 in 20 people. While 5% doesn't sound like a lot, if 1 in every 20 people I see in Walmart are carrying that's a considerable amount of firepower. If I was a criminal, I think I'd consider a career change.

Bet it ain't even close to 1:60 where I live...

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[okie john]

This is the fruit of a lot of legwork done by the NRA and other like-minded folk at the grassroots level after the 1994 AWB.

Before that bill passed, concealed carry was strengste verboten in more places than it was allowed and Joe Average hardly knew what an assault rifle was. After Senator Feinstein and President Clinton awoke the sleeping giant, the NRA helped a lot of new legislators, judges, and sheriffs get elected, and things began to go our way.

Classic case of going for a tactical win only to suffer a massive strategic loss.


Okie John

[41magfan]

Most people carry when they think there's a need. It's really just the same flawed logic the stalwart use when they carry a lesser, "NPE" firearm.

Predicting when you might need NONE makes no more sense that predicting when you may need LESS, but most people do it on some level about certain things.

[Alpha Sierra]

It's really just the same flawed logic the stalwart use when they carry a lesser, "NPE" firearm.

The whole point of an NPE handgun is that it is more concealable, and so less detectable. Because, you know, being made in an NPE is a bad thing, particularly if one can't play the cop card.

It has nothing to do with thinking that one can get by with less gun because danger will be less........

[41magfan]

The whole point of an NPE handgun is that it is more concealable, and so less detectable. Because, you know, being made in an NPE is a bad thing, particularly if one can't play the cop card.

It has nothing to do with thinking that one can get by with less gun because danger will be less........

Forgive me. I shouldn't have used the term NPE, it's a foreign concept to me personally and I probably misused it in my post.

Let me offer this instead;

The flawed logic I was eluding to would be the guy that carries a J-Frame everyday being looked down on by the guy that selectively carries a J-Frame when he's making a milk run or something of that nature. The predictability of risks in all of this line of thinking has huge holes in it but it's only perceived subjectively. That's the thought I was trying to convey.