Does DE publish (on the web?), the number of current CCW holders?
IIRC, in most Shall Issue states, between 3-5% of the adult population usually gets their CCW. I think getting 5% of DEians (1 out of 20 adults) issued a CCW would be a worthwhile goal.
To that end, you guys should make a list of EVERY gun shop, gun club, and gun range in the state. Organize them acc to location. You'll want each location to have, oh, 3 volunteers from here who will visit it 2x each month to make sure it is supplied w/the business card fliers. Each volunteer may promise to visit, say, two locations near where they live and two near where they work every two weeks (e.g., on their commute, while running errands, etc). This is to make sure they're supplied w/the fliers for the sales people to give w/every sales receipt, or to hand out to members (IPSC, IDPA, PPC), or to leave out for people to take themselves. Of course, # of business card fliers for each location, how often any particular location needs to be resupplied, etc. are all adjusted acc to experience.
I have no idea how many volunteers it will take from this forum to have 3 people cover every shop, club, and range.
Print these "business card fliers" on plain printer paper using MS Word, in 2 column format. You should be able to fit at least 10 on a single sheet of paper. You don't want the "business cards" so small that people will lose them or not notice them (like a fortune cookie's fortune). Standard business card size is best, or just slightly smaller. A title in bold italics like "
Handgun Carry Permit Info!" will catch their eye. The fliers will have brief statement in easy to read sans serif front that "If you want to learn about getting a DE concealed handgun carry permit, visit (and then give a URL/web address) for free info." Just enough to grab their attention and make them want to visit the site.
Gun shop/range owners should be for this because the more people who carry, the more guns and ammo sales and the more people who will want to practice.
Carrying a half dozen around in your wallet and a couple of dozen in your car's glove box lets you give them out to those you talk to vs them having to rely upon their memory, and to stick under windshield wiper blades of cars you see w/military, hunting, shooting, NRA, Tea Party, Ron Paul, Gadsden flag, or similar decals.
The website the cards direct people to may be a dedicated webpage here or a separate website that will take them step-by-step thru the process and have links to official state documents/info/applications. Simple and user-friendly are key.
This gives DE 2nd A activists something positive to do while we wait for the fed courts to, hopefully, give us Shall Issue nationwide, either before July 4th 2014 or, at latest, July 4th, 2015. If we don't win that in the fed cts/SCOTUS, that means the only way we'll get it is politically. As you can see from the below animation, not a single state that has gone Shall Issue has EVER gone back! DE CCW has nothing to lose and everything to gain by undertaking something like I've described. It will put you guys in a lot stronger position to fight for Shall Issue politically if we don't win it judicially. The more people who have CCWs, the more people who have "skin in the game," a vested interest in defending your RKBA in DE.
(Of course, I'm not trying to tell you guys what to do in your state. I'm just trying to share some ideas to help you solidify and defend your RKBA in DE. This will put you in a stronger position for a political offensive, if
Woollard,
Drake and other carry cases don't come thru and you have to fight for Shall Issue legislation, and maybe use OC "events" to persuade the politicos....)