UPDATE: State Concealed Carry Applications Climb After Aurora Shooting
The number of background checks for gun sales reported has skyrocketed in Colorado since the "Dark Knight Rises" shootings, as victims' families continue to mourn and police investigations are ongoing.
People across the nation have responded to the Aurora shooting on Friday by heading to their local gun shop, and Wisconsin residents seem to be following that trend. Between Monday and Wednesday, Wisconsin Department of Justice Communications Officer Dana Brueck said the state has received 1,333 applications for conceal carry permits. That's compared to 1,366 applications received between Monday and Friday of last week, just before the shooting occurred. The state's concealed carry law went into effect on Nov. 1; Brueck said, it has averaged about 300 applications a day " for some time." This week's pace is so far just under 450 permits applied for daily. The number of background checks reported for gun purchases skyrocketed in Colorado …
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Michael Wimett
1:21 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012
Why is everyone so hyped up about a concealed weapon permit when it is perfectly legal to carry a weapon on your person without concealing it. After living in Arizona for many years and seeing the number of people carrying their weapons openly, which in many cases actually reduced the amount of crime in a lot of locations and growing up in Texas where carrying a gun was almost a right of passage… more ›