{"id":61019,"date":"2020-10-23T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61019"},"modified":"2020-10-23T16:10:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:10:49","slug":"61019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61019","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Study Reports Record Number of Carry Permits in U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n

A study issued by Crime Prevention Research Center on Sept. 21 reported that the number of\u00a0concealed carry permits<\/a>\u00a0nationwide is now up to 19.48 million, a 34-percent increase compared to 2016\u2019s figure. The continued upswing is particularly noteworthy when the number of states that no longer require law-abiding citizens to secure the license is now up to 17.<\/p>\n

Roughly 7.6 percent of Americans have a carry permit, according to its findings. Slightly more than 26 percent of them are female and the number of new women outpaced men by 101.2 percent. There are now five states with more than 1 million people with carry permits. They are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Texas. Per capita, by qualified adult resident, 28.5 percent of the Alabamans have a license\u2014the top figure in the nation. Indiana claims second-place honors with 18.7 percent and Iowa trails in third.<\/p>\n

The cost is even going down. John R Lott and Rujun Wang, the report\u2019s authors wrote, \u201cA lot of changes in fees are occurring this year. Arkansas just reduced its fee from $142.11 to $91.9 and Washington from $48 to $36. Indiana\u2019s 5-year license to carry has become fee exempt since July 1, 2020, while Tennessee\u2019s 8-year license fee has dropped from $100 to $65, effective from January 1, 2020. West Virginia also reduced $75 fee for a LCDW to $25, starting on June 1, 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n

The number of people with carry permits in 1999 totaled 2.7 million. The figure rose to 11.1 million by 2014, but pales by comparison to this year\u2019s record-setting 19.48 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time that there has been an exponential growth in permits, there has been a general linear decline in murder and violent crime rates,\u201d the co-authors wrote. \u201cMurder rates fell from 5.7 to 5.0 per 100,000, a 12-percent drop. Overall violent crime fell by 29 percent. Meanwhile, the percentage of adults with permits soared by five-fold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Study Reports Record Number of Carry Permits in U.S. A study issued by Crime Prevention Research Center on Sept. 21 reported that the number of\u00a0concealed carry permits\u00a0nationwide is now up to 19.48 million, a 34-percent increase compared to 2016\u2019s figure. The continued upswing is particularly noteworthy when the number of states that no longer require … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019","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=61019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61020,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019\/revisions\/61020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}