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GAO: America has 118 million pistols, 8 million conceal-carry permits
washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 26 July, 2012 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 10/15/2012 9:25:02 AM PDT by marktwain

In a new report heralded by the NRA, the General Accountability Office finds that the numbers of Americans with permits to carry a concealed weapon has surged and virtually every state now allows pistols to be carried under garments or even in a car glove box.

"The number of states allowing concealed carry permits is increasing," said the GAO.

The report included two shocking numbers:

-- There are currently 118 million handguns in America, either owned or for sale.

-- Some 8 million Americans already have a concealed carry permit, about 1 million more than previously thought.

The report found that permits are not available only in Washington, D.C. and Illinois and that some states have huge populations of conceal carry permit holders. For example, in South Dakota and Georgia, about 10 percent of the population has a permit. In Virginia, 279,000 have them but in Maryland only 12,000 can legally carry a concealed weapon.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012; 2012issues; banglist; ccw; donttreadonme; freedom; liberty; permits; pistols; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: 1_Rain_Drop
I’m shocked so many are unarmed.

There are but few sheepdogs, but many sheep. The sheep wander around aimlessly in panic at the sign of danger and rely on the sheepdogs to protect them.

61 posted on 10/15/2012 12:26:33 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (Why do cops have more lenient ROEs when facing us than troops in combat facing suicidal islamists?)
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To: libstripper

It never ceases to amaze me how many of us FReepers have recently suffered “severe boating accidents.”


So many that I've been thinking about starting a new business: Ed's Underwater Salvage and Firearms.

62 posted on 10/15/2012 12:27:16 PM PDT by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: marktwain
I saw this while visiting Maui... Photobucket Really surprised me!
63 posted on 10/15/2012 12:35:54 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: marktwain

It’s not enough. Buy MORE, carry MORE, America.

Consider it your Patriotic Duty to keep Libs peeing themselves over it.

G19 primary carry, SW642 backup/glove box.


64 posted on 10/15/2012 12:37:43 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Manly Warrior

Formatting is everything....


65 posted on 10/15/2012 12:40:33 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Revolting cat!

LOL! You are right! I should have responded to Post #40

The ACTUAL first offender post was so long I missed the break in the middle.

NEVERMIND!!!

Have a great day.


66 posted on 10/15/2012 12:42:28 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Been saying that for years. They will just follow orders.

But no one here wants to believe that.


67 posted on 10/15/2012 12:45:32 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Manly Warrior
Moderator please delete!

To get the mods attention you need to hit the abuse button on your own post. They'll be there soon.

68 posted on 10/15/2012 1:06:07 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: marktwain
118 million handguns

In other news, the EPA is warning the WH that huge amounts of metal ‘suddenly’ ending up in the nation’s waterways could adversely effect water quality were they to push civilian disarmament....

69 posted on 10/15/2012 1:08:31 PM PDT by StaffiT (Obama is the name - Downgrading the country is his Game)
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To: Manly Warrior
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70 posted on 10/15/2012 1:19:10 PM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned is better than the alternative.)
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To: Blueflag
When was it that Include your tags replaced Close your tags?
71 posted on 10/15/2012 1:25:01 PM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned is better than the alternative.)
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To: marktwain
The real number is much greater. There are more private firearms in the U.S. than people which is as it should be. The founders knew the best defense against tyranny was a well armed citizenry.
72 posted on 10/15/2012 1:25:01 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Myrddin

Do a search on...’does the gao have access to states concealed carry database’...I believe it was started in 2002.


73 posted on 10/15/2012 1:35:20 PM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: EdReform

During the WWII Solomon Islands campaign there was “Iron Bottom Sound,” appropriately named for all the ships that were sunk there. By now our repeatded maritime disasters must have created at least 100 “Fiberglass and Aluminum Bottom Sounds.” Unspeakably horrible how so many similar tragedies have struck so many of us.


74 posted on 10/15/2012 1:35:31 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: marktwain

We need more concealed carry without a permit...shouldn’t be too big a jump for those states that have open-carry now.


75 posted on 10/15/2012 1:41:32 PM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Paladin2

The “how”part is easy. The permits are licenses so are in a state data base of one sort or another. Calls to 50, or is it 57?, state secretaries should produce a quick, fairly acurate, answer. The “why” could be a bit more nebulous but it’s fine with me if the gummint realizies just how big a force there is out here to ultimately keep them honest. Funny they didn’t mention longuns, somebody just wants to grind an axe about handguns, I guess, but taken together the country has well over 300 million small arms-——that, incidentally , is more privately owned guns than there are guns of every sort in the rest of the world-—including everyone’s militaries. I think they are lying (or just full of krap) about the number of handguns tho. We’ve made that many new ones in just the past 20 years. This is why there will never be any kind of door-to-door eforcement of any of Obama’s nonsense-——can you imagine the recruitment poster for door knockers? “the gummint wants YOU-—to knock on doors of armed citizens”.


76 posted on 10/15/2012 1:44:03 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: redgolum

When I was in college I read about study after study that was used to explain how despotic regimes had for centuries gotten people to do inhumane things to their fellow man.

It’s not that difficult.

Add to that the number of sick liberals (redundant, I know) that want nothing better than to stick it to everyone else. What most people don’t realize is that we are now into our 2nd generation of sociopaths. 2 generations of people raised with no social conscience. There’s a sh*tload of them out there. And they are just itching to “get even” with all of us.


77 posted on 10/15/2012 3:07:07 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: Uncle Miltie; Drumbo

Oh man, that’s awesome. That’s me. I gotta get me one a-those!

My fellow night shifters would laugh their butts off.


78 posted on 10/15/2012 4:11:03 PM PDT by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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To: marktwain

What a pisser; 118 million handguns in the US, and mine fell in the lake on my last fishing trip.


79 posted on 10/15/2012 4:22:06 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: marktwain

Shouldn’t the GAO be hunting down lost and stolen taxpayer dollars or something useful like that?


80 posted on 10/15/2012 6:06:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (This is America! Being dead is no excuse not to vote!!!)
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