CCW Permits Up By 215%

[MarkB]

Carry permits have increased under President Obama.  What did yu expect?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/concealed-gun-permits-soar-215-record-14.5-million-explode-under-obama/article/2599031

[Adrenolin]

Certainly not surprising at all.

[seniorgeek]

It was a very good article.

[Grettski]

Thank you for sharing. That was a great article

[Paladin4CA]

But does anyone know if the # of DE CCWs went up or down, and by how much???

[Paladin4CA]

But does anyone know if the # of DE CCWs went up or down, and by how much???

Well, since nobody has done it yet, I went to the website linked in the article and downloaded the study.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2814691

On page 17 it says that DE had 13,275 CCWs as of July 2016.

[Adrenolin]

A population of 945,934 people (as of 2015) with 13,275 CCDW permit holders. That's only 1.3% which is well below the national average of what... 3%?

[SturmRugerSR9]

Since Delaware is in the top 5 states in violent crime per capita, maybe the high crime rate means a lot of people can't qualify for a permit. But actually I believe it is because we have so many anti-gun Liberal Progressives here.
They don't want guns or permits or anyone else to have any either.

[Paladin4CA]

A population of 945,934 people (as of 2015) with 13,275 CCDW permit holders. That's only 1.3% which is well below the national average of what... 3%?

From the abstract of the report (linked in the article linked in the OP):

■ 6.06% of the total adult population has a permit.

■ In ten states, more than 10% of adults have concealed handgun permits. Indiana has the highest rate — 15%. South Dakota is close behind with 14.7%.

■ Florida, Pennsylvania, and Texas each have over a million residents who are active permit holders.

The stats are based on adults. Going off of: http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/10,00 DE has a pop. of  945,934. Of that, remove 21.6% who are under 18 yo. That leaves: 741,612 Divide 13,275 by that and multiply by 100 to get: 1.79%

So, DE has about 1/3rd the national average % of CCWers.

[Adrenolin]

Yes.. I didn't account for under 18 and remove them. Was just pointing out a rough number really. One could go further and find statistics on the number of adult residents who have felony's and remove them as well since they legally can't possess a firearm or CCDW permit.

[topper]

But does anyone know if the # of DE CCWs went up or down, and by how much???

Well, since nobody has done it yet, I went to the website linked in the article and downloaded the study.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2814691

On page 17 it says that DE had 13,275 CCWs as of July 2016.

In reading this article I downloaded, Lott is mentioned a pretty fair amount. Has his research been discredited as being flawed? And has Bloombergs Bunch been discredited also?