Posted on 09/10/2008 11:59:20 AM PDT by george76
The chances of running into a person who is legally concealing a firearm is increasing in New Mexico. That's because there has seen a 63 percent increase in people getting their concealed carry permits in the last year.
As expected, mostly men have concealed carry permits in New Mexico, but the number of senior citizens who carry guns is surprising.
In the five years that New Mexico's concealed carry law has been around, more than 11,000 men have held a license.
But women are being certified as well. One out of every five licenses are being issued to a female.
(Excerpt) Read more at kob.com ...
....sign up for a gun safety class and get your concealed carry permit....do it now....it will only get tougher in the future...especially if the messiah gets in the White House.
I got my permit in 2000, #272 for my county. My wife got hers two weeks earlier. Since our new State permit law I’ve heard they are well into the 8,000+ range.
Excellent advice. Does anyone know what the process and conceal carry permit process is in California?
In the Socialist Republic of California, don’t hold your breath.
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I just had to renew my Colorado CCW permit and submitted the paperwork in June. I asked the Sheriff’s administrator if the were very busy with CCW applications. She rolled her eyes and said that by june they had more applications than all of the previous year.
One word...BOHICA
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CA is a "may issue" state and while they are state permits, usually county sheriffs or city police commissioners do the actual issuing.
Whether or not you get a ccw in CA depends more on where you live than anything else. I'm in Kern County where it is almost shall-issue. Many rural counties are also pretty liberal about issuance, but large population cities or counties are almost zero-issue.
Go check out
http://www.calguns.net
....I would suggest that you begin by making a trip to a reputable gun dealer in your county....that’s how I got started here in N.C.....my dealer was a “full service” gun shop i.e. had an on site pistol range and conducted gun safety classes....the gun safety certification is the first step towards applying for your permit...your gun dealer will guide you....I rarely carry, but am glad to be authorized to do so.
Like I need a license..to carry a concealed weapon.
Criminals don't get a license...why should I?
The chances of me...getting patted down are virtually nil.
License my ass.........
MOLON LABE
Seems to me...that the local Police Chief gave licenses out...
He carried a nice Browning .25 semi-auto....with hollow-points.
I stupidly gave that gun away to a friend of my pop's.
fwiw-
Yep... apply and then get denied.
thanks much!
Thank you for that. We actually have one right up the road from where we live the Winchester Gun Club. I agree it is nice to be able to have the option to carry even if one does not often choose to.
Excellent site. Thank you.
Three cheers for CC! However, this also represents a major opportunity to change the American philosophy through education.
That is, at the founding of the United States, there was no such thing as a police force in the world. That didn’t really exist for 40 or so years after we became a nation. Certainly a town would have a “constable” and a judge, but citizens were expected to act as police, performing the functions that police do today.
This idea of “every man a policeman” is still in effect. If you see another person being attacked on the street, while you may call the police, it is typical and customary that you *might* want to intervene to stop the crime.
I say “might”, because there has long been an erosion of the idea of “every man a policeman”. Many people today would just stand there and gawk at a crime, or worse, run away, because they have forgotten their civic duty.
But this responsibility needs to be restored, even more as an idea than in practice. Because it is the idea of individual, not government responsibility, and not just looking after yourself, but the interests of your fellow citizen against crime and criminals.
While CC permits and citizen intervention most certainly do reduce crime, it is important that we persuade our fellow citizens that they should be mentally prepared to act, not just to make a phone call.
Because when people even just imagine they have responsibility, they become more responsible in other ways as well.
This idea of “every man a policeman” is still in effect. If you see another person being attacked on the street, while you may call the police, it is typical and customary that you *might* want to intervene to stop the crime.
FWIW- try smacking some 17 year old punk upside the head for doing something that borders on criminal and see where it gets you. Sorry, been there, done that. The LEO's treated me like the criminal.
License my ass.........
Agreed. I'd rather open carry.
Apply and die of old age waiting for approval
Probably would be much faster process if you apply for the job of being Rosie O'Donut bodyguard first :^ )
Move to Isleton, then apply locally.
Any idea why the sudden increase in people getting permits? Do you think people are worried about unrest at election time? I can understand gun sales going up with people that think they would get granfathered in to own a banned gun. But, they could ban concealed carry at the federal level and claim it does not infringe on the 2A. If concealed carry were banned at the federal level, that plastic license suddenly becomes worthless. Not that I think it is bad that more honest folks are getting permits. I just think the timing is strange.
Great resource !
“Borders on criminal” is all the difference in the world. Parts of our Common Law based legal system go all the way back to the Germanic tribes of Gaul, where “every man was a warrior”. Things such as arrest instead of duel, trial by a jury of your peers, accusers and advocates unrelated to the accusation, etc., all were devised to keep warriors from killing each other immediately over any disagreement.
At the founding of our country and to this day, citizens can as a rule intervene only to arrest, or stop misdemeanor crimes from continuing, and only if it is a serious crime may they physically attack the criminal, but even then, only to prevent the crime, not specifically to harm or injure the criminal.
I once had a good laugh listening to an Army NCO pretend to give obviously contrived testimony, based on the idea that a burglar or robber had broken into his house at night, and the NCO had gunned him down. The NCO knew all the legal rules to follow, and not waver from, so that everyone would know he was lying, but his testimony would still be unimpeachable in court.
The emphasis was that the NCO identified himself and illuminated his position, then loudly told the robber to drop his weapon, which he was pointing at the NCO in a menacing fashion. After he fired each of six shots, he would repeat the ludicrous statements, as the robber supposedly continued to try and point his weapon at the NCO while being repeatedly shot.
But the point was that legally, he supposedly felt his life was at imminent risk, and that he was not trying to kill the robber, just to stop him from killing the NCO.
As such, he was not trying to “punish” the robber in any way, or even killing him for the lesser crime of robbery, but to kill him to prevent murder, which, except in England, is universally acceptable.
Fplks are cpncerned that if Obama gets in we may have difficulty buying weapons. Right now, buy ammo. It’ll be as good as gold in a few years.
If it's like Wayne County in Michigan used to be, you have to be a democrap and hold some sort of elected office position.
I also need to stock up on reloading supplies. I always shoot more than I can reload so I have ammo cans full of brass just waiting to get a second life. Also need to get a progressive reloader like one of those spiffy Dillons. I just love how the high-volume reloading presses are called “progressive”! I wonder if the leftists have noticed the irony in that?
I love that. Someone should call up Dillon and make up a t-shirt or something.
I have two Dillon 550’s set up. One for small primers and the other for large. You don’t really save money by reloading. You just shoot more. It’s wonderful.
“I also need to stock up on reloading supplies.”
....I was up at WalMart recently getting shells for opening of dove season and was startled at the price increases in the ammo aisle....everything’s up; shells,cartridges,black powder; smokeless powder ect....and that’s run-of-the-mill stuff that WalMart handles...I can only imagine what more specialized shooting supplies are going for.
Do you recall what you started out with when you were first reloading? A Lee?
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