Illinois Concealed carry stats 2014

[Trent]

http://www.isp.state.il.us/docs/2014FSBCCLStats.pdf

For any of you guys who are interested in stats....

No real surprises, but it's nice to have hard numbers and trending to reference!

 

[4banger]

There was an article from the News Gazette that wrote about the police saying one year of people concealed carrying has been a non-event. No surprise to us, but the anti crowd will never acknowledge it.

 

[UpperAtmosphere]

My father and I make up just under 1% of the permit holders in our county!

So proud.

Trying to get my wife interested so we can dominate.

 

[illinoisburt]

Had news story on Chicago public radio about how the state police only got 4,000 to 5,000 applications in November and December so demand is falling off. They seemed to be insinuating that nobody really wants the permits since the total is less than a quarter of the original estimates so there was no need for the law. Funny no mention of the missing anarchy in the streets which they had predicted.

 

[drewzfoster]

Nice seeing the News Gazette being referenced! I live in champaign.

 

[Trent]

There was an article from the News Gazette that wrote about the police saying one year of people concealed carrying has been a non-event. No surprise to us, but the anti crowd will never acknowledge it.

Similar articles ran in the PJ Star in Peoria, the Pekin Daily times in Pekin, on CINewsNow (News 25), and in the Bloomington-Normal news.

Getting that sort of coverage about a "non-event" is a damn good thing, IMO.

Good thing those stats came out on a relatively slow news week.

 

[slumlord44]

Guess I need to apply for mine to help get the numbers up. Was waiting for the mad rush to slow down.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

Almost 100,000 statewide the first year? Good on you! Keep it up, guys!

 

[Trent]

Yeah, those were issued permits, Chief.

Because it can take 3-4 months for approval the # of apps to issued apps curve will always lag quite a bit.

If you add up the "applications received" numbers on the chart for 2014, you arrive at 104,654.

This does not include instructors who applied early, back in 2013. Instructors were used as guinea pigs to get some of the kinks out of the application process, and were able to apply for concealed carry licenses a few weeks before everyone else - so there were a couple thousand apps received prior to the Jan 5, 2014 date that normal folks could apply on.

So a true number for 2014 applications received would be somewhere closer to 108,000.

We definitely broke the 100k mark!

 

[Jeff H]

Trent, that's great news for the people of Illinois. Interesting amount of denials and revocations though. I'll have to look up Ohio to compare, but I don't' remember them being that high last time I checked on them. Any reason for that that you can think of?

 

[Trent]

Any reason for that that you can think of?

Yes, but nothing I can put in to phrasing polite enough to actually post on THR.

 

[Nanook]

In Cook County, it's called getting "lawn dartted" when you're rejected and you're not any sort of criminal.

Sheriff's name is Dart, for those not from IL. So far to the left it's a wonder he can stand upright. And in no way a member of law enforcement, strictly a political hiring.

Dumb as a post, hence lawn Dart. Wouldn't make a good pimple on a decent cop's thigh.