Carry Permits in TN
So, there was a bit in the paper yesterday athat said: Applications for concealed handgun permits triple in a year. And now the article doesn’t even mention that. It is here and mentions they are slightly down.
The original article that other reports are based on (still not corrected) said: Applications for Tennessee carry permits statewide have skyrocketed over the last five years, increasing from 237 in 2003 to 195,251 in 2007. Applications more than tripled between 2006 and 2007, records show.
Wow, that would be quite an increase. And our local Merchant of Death tried to clue them in:
That’s right, a near thousandfold increase in applications. Hm. I doubt it. The Channel 8 guy did too, and didn’t run the story at all, in fear it might be wrong.
I clued Channel 6 onto this information, before they did the interview. Newschick didn’t particularly care, figured she’d still do the interview. Same questions, same deal. Only, when they got back to the studio, all of the “find out why carry permit holder numbers in Tennessee are SKYROCKETING!” audio they did was fairly useless, since the real numbers actually show a decrease in permit applications, regardless of whether or not we’re seeing an increase in them here in our store. Exactly the opposite of what they originally wanted to talk about. Suspect that trucated their useable video a bit, too.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
The name of the link still says it:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/23/applications-for-concealed-handgun-permits-triple/
June 24th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
As someone pointed out to me the header on the story still mentions ccw tripled. Go to the article and look up. But what they are not telling you is that carry applications in TN are up 400% this year! I took the carry course 1 1/2 weeks ago and the instructor, an leo, told us this. I turned in my app last week and got my fingerprints taken last Wednesday and was told the backlog is now 10-12 weeks to get approval.