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Paladin4CA:

--- Quote from: Paladin4CA on August 13, 2016, 05:37:44 PM ---But does anyone know if the # of DE CCWs went up or down, and by how much???

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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:

--- Quote from: Adrenolin on August 17, 2016, 07:40:01 PM ---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%?

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


--- Quote ---■ 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.
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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.

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