Miguel has dutifully tracked the number of issued Florida CCW permits, which cleared two million earlier this year.
That’s great, but at the national level, we’re doing even better.
From the Crime Prevention Research Center:
Despite the expectations of many after the 2016 elections the number of concealed handgun permits has increased for the third year in a row. In 2019, the number of concealed handgun permits soared to now over 18.66 million– a 304% increase since 2007. About an 8% growth over the number of permits since 2018.
Overall, that is more than 5% of Americans who have a CCW permit. Of course, it’s not broken down evenly.
This map shows the states by percent of residents with CCW permits;
You are welcome by the way.
I have gotten a CCW in every state I have ever claimed residence in, including Illinois, and have lived in four of the five states that are above 15% (I’m just missing Iowa). Throw in my Arizona and Utah permits and I’ve done my part to boost those numbers.
I think the state that impresses me the most is Pennsylvania at 10-15% despite being jammed next to a bunch of may/no issue ban-happy states (Maryland, New York, New Jersey).
This is a very quiet victory, you don’t hear much about concealed carry in the media, except when the are mocking the idea of a good guy with a gun, but our numbers are growing.
Even Ill-i-noises numbers are encouraging, given how recently we got started and the hoops and added expense one goes through.
[…] J. Kb.’s post reminded me I had not checked lately where do we stand in Florida lately about permits. Since June of this year, we have added 40,832 new licenses. […]
Can you get a breakdown of resident and non-resident permits? I suspect Utah has a large proportion of non-resident permits since it’s very popular in states with no reciprocity like Oregon.
there are also places in California that issue. Ventura County which started issuing in 2014 after Peruta vs San Diego. They are now at about 6000 permits or 1% of the population.
Interesting map, thanks for posting it J.KB. Our country may survive the Democrats after all!
If you remove NYC, where it’s next to impossible to get a permit, NY would probably be doing relatively well. Getting a permit upstate is generally pretty easy, albeit time consuming. I’d guess we’d be light green, possibly dark green.
The interesting number is not fraction of the total population, but fraction of the eligible, non-prohibited population. I don’t think any jurisdictions track numbers for disqualifiers like felons, addicts, adjudicated mentally incompetent, other than honorably discharged, renounced citizenship, domestic violence, etc. so we have to just go with the population over 21 years of age.