Police object to fraction of gun-carry permits under Illinois conceal carry (99.3% approved)

abclocal.go.com ^ | 31 January, 2014 | AP

[marktwain]

January 31, 2014 (CHICAGO) -- Police across Illinois have objected to just 236 applications from people seeking to carry concealed weapons out of 33,631 submitted to the state police.

[marktwain]

Notice, this is AP. They could as easily said that 99.3% of applications were approved.

[PapaBear3625]

Earlier thread using Chicago Sun-Times article.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I wonder if the 236 are concentrated in a few areas with anti-CCW police chiefs.

[RandallFlagg]

Wouldn’t surprise me.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Illinois is a shall issue state. The police chief doesn’t have the authority to arbitrarily deny a permit.

[CMailBag]

Most of them are probably in ‘Coooook’ County

[Tupelo]

Every time I see or hear, STATE POLICE, the hair on my neck stands up. When I was in school, back in the dark ages I remember being told that most states rejected that name in favor of Highway Patrol because most America objected to having a state police. Maybe that's why.
Of course in some states (most) Highway Patrol needs to be changed to Revenue Enhancement Officer.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Importantly, the first of the licenses will begin to be issued in March, so enough of them should be issued by summer to perhaps see a statistical impact on crime in Chicago. Of course, just 8,000 licenses in Cook County is a tiny number.

Were they issued earlier, the politicians would have undoubtedly excused the lower crime rate on the weather.

[SampleMan]

Yes, its a nonstory given that over 99.3% of gun owners never commit a crime with a gun. Why wouldn’t they be getting approved?

[Exeter]

I agree, a good follow-up story should be the percentage of people arrested for a violent crime who were carrying a firearm w/out a permit, these people are why we need to carry,