Joe Biden repeatedly has called for more and more gun control, but has accomplished relatively little, with only a modest gun reform plan, since he’s been in office.
One area where he’s having literally no impact is on the issue of concealed carry permits.
That’s according to a report from Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard.
He reported, “A new and authoritative report put the number of permits held by Americans at 22.01 million. That number was a 2.3% surge over last year, according to John Lott’s Crime Prevention Research Center.”
Bedard reported it was the first such report on the issue since the Supreme Court overturned New York’s plan that it would issue concealed handgun permits if it wanted to.
And nearly half the states allow citizens to carry guns with them without any permits required at all, the report said.
“As more and more states decide not to require permits, the number of people who can legally carry a handgun will increasingly outpace the number of permit holders. The number of people who carry permitted concealed handguns is clearly related to the cost of getting permission. When there is no cost whatsoever, concealed carry becomes very popular,” the report, obtained by Bedard, explained.
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About 8.5% of American adults have a carry permit, he said.
Alabama, Indiana and Georgia have the biggest concentration of permits, with holders at 32.5%, 23.4% and 15.5%.
Multiple states including Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana have more than one million permit holders and Florida leads the list with 2.57 million.
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Whistleblower magazine reveals and explores the stunning truth: Soros, an atheist, literally says he’s “some kind of god,” obsessed with re-creating the world in his image. Here are a few actual quotes from Soros: “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood…” “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.” “You know, in my personal capacity I’m not actually a selfless philanthropic person. I’ve very much self-centered.” “I am kind of a nut who wants to have an impact.” “Next to my fantasies about being God, I also have very strong fantasies of being mad. … I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it.”
Except he hasn’t “escaped it.” Not only is Soros totally mad, but he’s imposing his insanity on America. See Soros and the leftwing world he has created and funded as never before in “THE BILLIONAIRE WHO THINKS HE’S ‘GOD’: Why George Soros is obsessed with destroying America.”
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