Texas State Rifle Association Dear TSRA Members, Family and Friends: The number of concealed handgun permits has increased for the third year in a row. The figure now stands at over 18.66 million - a 304% increase since 2007. It's also an 8% increase over the number of permits we counted a year ago in 2018. Unlike gun ownership surveys that may be affected by people's unwillingness to answer personal questions, concealed handgun permit data is the only really "hard data" that we have. Sixteen states are missing from the data because people there don't even need a permit to carry. ■ Four states now have over 1 million permit holders: Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Florida is the first state to have over 2 million permits. ■ Sixteen states have adopted constitutional carry, meaning that a permit is no longer required. Because of these constitutional carry states, the nationwide growth in permits does not paint a full picture of the overall increase in concealed carry. But some residents still choose to obtain permits so that they can carry in other states that have reciprocity agreements. ■ 7.3% of American adults have permits. Outside of the restrictive states of California and New York, about 8.75% of the adult population has a permit. ■ In thirteen states, more than 10% of adults have permits, down from just fifteen last year. Arkansas, Oklahoma, and West Virginia fell below 10%, but they are now all Constitutional Carry states, meaning that people no longer need a permit to carry. South Carolina's concealed carry rate has now risen to above 10%. ■ Alabama has the highest concealed carry rate - 26.3%. Indiana is second with 17.9%, and South Dakota -- another Constitutional Carry state -- saw its percentage decline to 16.02%. In 2019, women made up 26.5% of permit holders in the 12 states that provide data by gender. Eight states had data from 2012 to 2019, and permit numbers grew 101% faster for women than for men. ■ 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 a 3.6 times greater percentage increase in permits than white males. North Carolina had black permits increase twice as fast as whites. In Oklahoma, the increase for American Indians was twice the rate for whites and for blacks it was 66% greater than for whites. ■ From 2012 to 2018, in the four states that provide data by race over that time period, the number of black people with permits increased almost 20% faster than the number of whites with permits. Asians appear to be the group that has experienced the largest increase in permitted concealed carry, growing 29% faster than whites. Florida has issued 2.03 million, Texas is second with 1.4 million, third is Indiana with 1.33 million. See Dr. John Lott's full report at Crime Prevention Research Center Note: The Gun Control push is on-hold in Wash. D.C. because of the Impeachment nonsense. It will heat back up when we get to 2020. The gun control push has never slackened here in Texas. It is critical that we all become activist to get our family, and friends out to vote for Republicans. ______________________________________________ Stay informed - sign-up for alerts TSRA PAC ALERTS NRA-ILA Alerts If your group needs a speaker, send a request to legdir@tsra.com There will be continuous attempts to restrict and reduce our second amendment rights. TSRA is dedicated to protecting our rights. Mike Cox Legislative Director Texas State Rifle Association NRA state affiliate 100 yrs and growing
FBI: Handgun Murders Drop When States Pass Constitutional Carry - Ohio Gun Owners Dove tails into this nicely! YUP, another thing we all knew all along!
Kentucky did away with the CCDW laws and everyone can carry concealed now without a permit. The streets were supposed to run red with blood when this happened but I have not seen any yet.
Glad to see that Alabama was #1, the Crimson Tide can't be expected to carry the load alone. That being said, Alabama is the #1 football team in both major polls. ROLL TIDE!!
Hell yea! Someone once said, "Alabama lacked humility". To which was replied, "Alabama knows humility, and they travel around the country teaching it to others".
Were you talking about this weekend, Saturday Oct.12th, when we beat Texas A&M ?? Jalen Hurts and Oklahoma did a number on Texas too! ROLL! TIDE ! ROLL! Next up LSU on Nov. 9th! Rammer, Jammer, Yellowhammer...
