Posted on 01/02/2013 9:58:54 AM PST by SmileRight
It’s official: Florida has passed the one million mark in issuing concealed carry gun permits – the most of any other state.
In mid-December, Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam released a statement announcing the upcoming milestone and sharing information about the Florida Concealed Weapon and Firearm License Program.
“In 1987, Florida issued its first statewide concealed weapon license after the Florida Legislature established standardized and uniform requirements for the issuance of a concealed weapon license,” said Commissoner Putnam. “Twenty-five years later,...
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For them, $100 or so isn’t much. They all did it to celebrate turning 21, that and being able to buy alcohol. I don’t think any of them would ever actually carry. The only time they ever held a weapon was during the class.
Do you have stats on the number of non-resident permits issued?
Florida has a large non-resident population who would not appear on our census figures either, so the two numbers might cancel each other out.
Can they get together? Sadly I doubt it.
Time to start planning. Facebook, Twitter, the web. If the “wilders” can do it, it seems to me that the honest citizenry can. “Where there is a will there is a way”. Q- is there the will?
The problem isn’t in the planning. It is in the motivation. Why get together? Who are we going to fight? The government? The liberal next door? College professors? At this point in time, we are still comfortable. We have our full bellies, full gas tanks, 24/7 power and water, electronics out the wazoo, a church on every corner, etc.
If we band together in 1990’s style militia, the government will just infiltrate them with informants, so staying disorganized is best. When we’ve lost enough comforts, we might band together and fight, but we still don’t know who to fight.
I believe that the American people would be very content with slavery as long as the lights and water stays on, cable TV and internet porn and gaming keeps working, we keep on getting new electronics every few years, and the restaurants stay open. These people will send their kids to bureaucrats for indoctination, they’ll surrender most of the guns and bury the rest, and they’ll accept high taxes in exchange for free stuff.
Of course, at some point, we’ll have all that...and then our Chinese masters will move the factories over here so we can produce cheap junk for their consumer class. And by then, it will be too late.
This is one of 2 reasons I don’t have a CCW permit anymore. 1 - I can’t carry where I work, 2 - it’s just 1 less govt database to be in. I’m thankful Virginia has decent open-carry and carry loaded in a vehicle laws. I’m hoping for CC without permit.
Socialism is the rule of the most ruthless, using the common man's conceit, over the most gifted and accomplished.
Agree with your reasoning. Today’s young care only of there i Pods, dancing with the Stars, Football/real and fantasy, games and TEXTING
We need to do away with the idea of needing a permit to exercise a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT.
We pay $5 which goes to the state to cover the costs.
...all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
I don't know what y'all are complaining about...we simply aren't "there" yet.
Wow, if asked I wouldn’t have guessed Florida was #1. I would probably have said Texas.
Wish I did, but I don’t think Florida differentiates the two (or if they do, release the data separately).
Is that with or without conceal?
Is that with or without conceal?
Yes.
I’m hoping Va gets that. To me a conceal carry permit is like registering as a gun owner.
I’m hoping Va gets that. To me a conceal carry permit is like registering as a gun owner.
The sheriff is responsible for issuing permits in this hellhole of a county and while the base never previously required a "command letter" a non-problem was made a problem. Two other nearby counties never made an issue of it, but supposedly in the recent past have followed suit.
That’s when, then-Maj. Gen. Robert C. Dickerson Jr., signed a Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune order to satisfy Onslow County and state requirements. This allowed service members the opportunity to obtain a pistol and CCW permit
He is probably right as Douglas County has 300,000 people but only 8,000 CWP.
My state has zero gun permits.
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