Posted on 07/27/2021 4:33:52 AM PDT by marktwain
As a compromise in the debate over Constitutional Carry, the Indiana legislature passed a firearms reform bill that eliminated the fee for an Indiana lifetime carry permit. The fee for the 5-year permit was eliminated in 2019. That law went into effect on 1 July 2020. From the Crime Prevention Research Center, Indiana had 967,061 permits as of July 1, 2020. At that time, 18.73% of the adult population had an Indiana carry permit.
On 1 July of 2020, when the five-year permit fee was eliminated, about 8,000 applications for permits were received. From indystar.com:
State Police received 2,259 handgun permit applications from July 1-7 last year compared to 20,647 in 2020.
On July 1 alone, the day the fees were eliminated, Galaviz said the state received about 8,000 gun permit applications.
The data includes all handgun permit applications, which include lifetime permits that still have fees. About two-thirds of last week’s applications were for the no-fee five-year permits, Galaviz said.
As of 1 July 2021, the number of total active licenses had increased to 1,120,144. Those numbers translate into 21.69% of the adult population, a nearly 16% rise in permits, equal to 3% of the adult population. 69% of those with permits are males, 31% are females.
The elimination of the lifetime permit fee went into effect on 1 July 2021. The number of applications for permits showed an increase similar to the increase a year ago, on 1 July 2020. From fox59.com:
GREENWOOD, Ind. — There is no longer a fee to obtain a lifetime permit to carry a gun in the state of Indiana. The response from Hoosiers has been so overwhelming that it’s bogging down Indiana State Police’s firearms licensing website.
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It is expected 25% of the adult population will have a permit to carry by the end of 2022.
A buddy of mine from high school moved to Michigan City, Indiana. I went to visit him there a while back and everyone was packing heat. They put Montanans to shame with gun ownership.
If ever there was a list of law abiding citizens, they should be on it.
We were in Michigan City yesterday. And I concur with your assessment.
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WOW ! I’m shocked that there is no Data being put in the article for the lgdtrzxw... or as Our Liz would put it: (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doe't know which bathroom to use)
Indiana is now high on my list of places to retire to.
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