Posted on 08/12/2020 7:14:44 AM PDT by rktman
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.
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Permits? Permission? Does not compute. Until you see it applies to NYC. Guess these folks plan on staying there. And no doubt my ancestors are spinning at about 2,000+ rpm in their graves.
I live in New Hampshire.
What’s a rifle permit? What’s a pistol license?
The 2nd Amendment IS the only “permit” you need.
Us Hoosiers wonder the same...
since when do you need a permit to buy a rifle?
Patriots buying? Or Marxist ComDem revolutionaries?
Wonder what percentage of the rifle applications are not AR or AK platform models?
They have lots of guns, or they did at one time, in Venezuela too.
[[[Wonder what percentage of the rifle applications are not AR or AK platform models?]]]
100%. No AK and ARs permitted. (To the general public.)
There are newly purchased supposedly “compliant” ARs floating around in NY but they really aren’t.
Private gun ownership in Venezuela ended in 2012.
Comrade Cuomo will now unilaterally male it more difficult to find and apply for those papers to ask the government to let them defend themselves with the only thing that works for everyone.
I hate communists.
If you have to ask permission, it is not a right.
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De Blasio cut the NYPD budget to slow to a grind the gun approval process.
I guess I missed that part of the Second Amendment that specifies a citizen first must request permission. Good to know. And here I always thought it was a Right.
> 149% more handgun permits and nearly 340% more rifle/shotgun permits
Poorly worded. (ie: Wrong)
It’s an increase TO 149% and 340%.
It’s not an increase OF those percentages.
Maths is hard.
Sorry. Pet peeve.
If I’d moved to NYC before my Tragic Boating Accident, taking all of my formerly owned toys with me, I’d have been an instant felon.
Same for us here in TN.
I love the simplicity of the statement. So many just give away rights without much thought. I could not imagine living in one of these sh*tholes with barbarians and have to ask for permission to defend life,liberty and property as the police and government do NOTHING except INFRINGE on our rights.
Glad I don’t live in a communist State that requires a ‘permit’ to exercise my 2nd Amendment civil rights.
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