{"id":106492,"date":"2024-12-31T16:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106492"},"modified":"2024-12-31T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T22:26:32","slug":"106492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106492","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegunmag.com\/new-ccw-report-says-decline-reflects-constitutional-carry-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New CCW Report Says Decline Reflects \u2018Constitutional Carry\u2019 Impact<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>The number of active concealed carry licenses declined again, possibly because 29 states now allow permitless carry.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the second year in a row, the number of active concealed carry permits and licenses in the U.S. has declined slightly, but the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) suggests the drop reflects the impact of \u201cConstitutional Carry\u201d permitless states, so it\u2019s not as though fewer people are packing heat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year,\u201d CPRC reported, \u201cthe number of permit holders dropped\u00a0by 0.38 million\u00a0to 21.46 million\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the second year in a row with a decline.\u00a0It hit a high of 22.01 million in 2022. The main reason for the drop is that\u00a0the number of permits declined gradually in the Constitutional Carry states even though it is clear that more people are legally carrying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CPRC, based in Missoula, Mont., has been tracking concealed carry patterns for several years. Its annual report is published in the fall, typically in late October or early November.<\/p>\n<p>Among this year\u2019s revelations:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Twenty-nine states have now adopted \u201cConstitutional (permitless) Carry\u201d for their entire state, meaning that a permit is no longer required. Because of these Constitutional Carry states, the concealed carry permits number does not paint a full picture of how many\u00a0people are legally carrying across the nation.\u00a0Many residents still choose to obtain permits so that they can carry in other states that have reciprocity agreements, but while permits are increasing in the non-Constitutional Carry states, they fell in the Constitutional Carry ones even though more people are clearly carrying in those states.<\/li>\n<li>In 2024, women made up 29.1% of permit holders in the 14 states that provide data by gender. Seven states had data from 2012 to 2023\/2024, and permit numbers grew 111.9% faster for women than for men.<\/li>\n<li>Five states now have over 1 million permit holders: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Florida is the top states with 2.46 million permits.\u00a0Alabama has fallen below 1 million permit holders this year, but it has become a Constitutional Carry state since January 1, 2023, meaning that people no longer need a permit to carry.<\/li>\n<li>Three states that have detailed race and gender data for at least a decade show remarkably larger increases in permits for minorities compared to whites. In Texas, black females saw an 8.4 times greater percentage increase in permits than white males from 2002 to 2023. Oklahoma data from 2002 to 2023 indicated that the increase of licenses approved for Asians was slightly over four times the rate for whites. North Carolina had black permits increase twice as fast as whites from 1996 till 2016.<\/li>\n<li>From 2015 to 2021\/2023\/2024, in the four states that provide data by race over that time period, the number of Asian people with permits increased 219.2% % faster than the number of whites with permits. Blacks appear to be the group that has experienced the largest increase in permitted concealed carry, growing 283.9% % faster than whites.<\/li>\n<li>At least 8.2% of American adults have permits.\u00a0Outside of the restrictive states of California and New\u00a0York, about 9.8% of adults have a permit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In sixteen states, more than 10% of adults have permits. Oregon has fallen slightly below 10% this year. Indiana has the highest concealed carry rate \u2014 23.1%.\u00a0\u00a0Alabama is second with 20.5%, and\u00a0Colorado is third with 17.7%, followed by Pennsylvania (15.88%) and Georgia (13.55%).<\/p>\n<p>The 73-page report said this year saw two more states join the permitless carry column\u2014South Carolina and Louisiana\u2014bringing the total to 29, and that\u2019s a majority of states. By no small coincidence, holdout states are controlled by Democrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New CCW Report Says Decline Reflects \u2018Constitutional Carry\u2019 Impact The number of active concealed carry licenses declined again, possibly because 29 states now allow permitless carry. &nbsp; For the second year in a row, the number of active concealed carry permits and licenses in the U.S. has declined slightly, but the Crime Prevention Research Center &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-schtuff","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106493,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106492\/revisions\/106493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}