jobu07
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Well said carpetbagger. 
CCW nationwide total
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" didn't know they'd updated the number. Isn't that down a bit from previous numbers?
brad cook"
Actually its more like 249,800 in May. They used to update every month missing only the occasional month. Havent updated since then but it is the highest recorded number so far. The numbers have gone backwards only once or twice since 96 and then jumped forward again.
brad cook"
Actually its more like 249,800 in May. They used to update every month missing only the occasional month. Havent updated since then but it is the highest recorded number so far. The numbers have gone backwards only once or twice since 96 and then jumped forward again.
I still would like to find a total someplace. I talked with Packing.org and their site has a few links. Did a search and came up with a few more totals. Emailed about 20 states for their most recent CCW stats.
Interesting that they expect somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 retired LEO will be authorized to carry. Now thats what I call narrowing it down.
I really should be out shootin.......:banghead:
Interesting that they expect somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 retired LEO will be authorized to carry. Now thats what I call narrowing it down.
I really should be out shootin.......:banghead:
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So something around 17% of the entire population of the US carries a firearm?
~292,000,000 people in the US as of 2003. 3,500,000 concealed handgun licenses/permits as of last year.
That's 16.57% of the population who carry, not factoring in the last 3/4 year in which more people have obtained permits.
I'd love to be optimistic about it, but that honestly seems like too high of a number, considering that the biggest population centers are the strictest about carrying concealed. If I were to have guessed without having those numbers above, I would say more like 7-10%. Does anyone else agree that, even though the numbers say 16.57%, it's probably less?
~292,000,000 people in the US as of 2003. 3,500,000 concealed handgun licenses/permits as of last year.
That's 16.57% of the population who carry, not factoring in the last 3/4 year in which more people have obtained permits.
I'd love to be optimistic about it, but that honestly seems like too high of a number, considering that the biggest population centers are the strictest about carrying concealed. If I were to have guessed without having those numbers above, I would say more like 7-10%. Does anyone else agree that, even though the numbers say 16.57%, it's probably less?
I'm not a very good math cruncher but i get more like 1.2% out of that. That would probably be close as Texas has like maybe 2% of the total population legal and states generally run between 2 and 4% licensed. A good chunck of the total number are minors and ineliible and even the convicted felons out number us by about two to one.
We also have an uncounted population numbering in the millions. These are off- the -books emegrees from Mexico. They won't be eligible for licenses until John Kerry grants them all citizenship so that they can vote for the Party.
We also have an uncounted population numbering in the millions. These are off- the -books emegrees from Mexico. They won't be eligible for licenses until John Kerry grants them all citizenship so that they can vote for the Party.
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