Posted on 08/11/2020 1:12:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai
New York City rifle permit applications and pistol license requests have surged this year, according to New York Police Department (NYPD) data obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
NYC residents submitted nearly 149% more handgun permits and nearly 340% more rifle/shotgun permits from Jan. 1 to June 28 compared to the same period in 2019, according to data provided to the DCNF by NYPD spokeswoman Sgt. Jessica McRorie.
A total of 2,338 people applied for handgun licenses from January to the end of June this year, compared to 1,571 last year in the same time frame, according to the NYPD data. Residents applied for 1,492 rifle permits in the six-month span in 2020 compared to 441 in 2019, the data show.
Handgun licenses were approved at a rate of 46% and rifle and shotgun licenses at a rate of 29% in the six month period in 2020, data show. Last year, 77% of handgun licenses were issued and 61% of long gun permits were approved in the same period, according to a data analysis performed by the DCNF.
The apparent decrease in approvals may not necessarily equal an uptick in denials, as residents can end up waiting up to 8-10 months to receive their permits. Thus, many of the currently unapproved applications may have yet to be either approved or denied. …
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Aye Yi Yi!
Well, Obama and the world that he encouraged continue as the top salesman of guns.
“Applied”, how many actually got their guns?
It’s just amazing how we have kept all those new firearms from killing rioters.
Indeed. A firearm’s instinct is to slay rioters of its own volition and all.
Rights are not something that can be “permitted”.
I live in N.J. so I will not comment.
But, why?
What the heck is THAT?
Handgun permit is bad enough but now they make you have a permit for a rifle? What next, pointy stick permit?
Ain’t sending a lot of older folks to no nursing home! Not until you pry this here rifle from my non Covid infected hands!
The varmint rifle I bought over ten years ago has been unusually agitated lately.
A banana permit, of course. Don’t be so high and mighty about pointy sticks.
(For those of you who are not cultured, look up Monty Python and Fresh Fruit on You Tube)
I carry a drywall hammer. One side a 22 ounce hammer. The other side a hatchet sharp as Satan’s teeth. Lethal beyond imagination in close proximity.
I used to carry a four cell maglight. Between that and my cane I could do a number on someone or several someones. Your drywall hammer sounds like it could give a tactical tomahawk a run for it’s money.
Yeah, I have to keep my long guns locked in the safe to keep them from getting out and hitchhiking to Portland so they can slay rioters. They look so sad when I lock them up, I need to take them to the range and feed them treats. /sarc
Imagine how agitated a tactical nuke would be if you owned one.
Not all that long ago, NYS High Schools had some very good rifle teams. Could get a Varsity Letter being on the Rifle team. Kept it in your locker.
Back in the day, Cub Scouts used to take their, PBJ, a can of coke, and their 22 plinker on the PUBLIC BUS to go knock some cans, wood blocks and other whatever junk off some fence posts in the open fields.
NYC Sullivan Gun Laws are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Put in place by one POLITICAL party to disarm their Political opponents back.
And now, they arrest you for not wearing a blue paper WuHu mask.
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