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Record numbers now licensed to pack heat
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Firearms deaths fall as millions obtain permits to carry concealed guns
Brett Flashnick / for msnbc.com
Attorney Jim Corley displays some of his handguns in his Columbia, S.C., office. The .32-caliber semiautomatic that he used to stop a holdup and kill a would-be robber is in the center.
....In the 1980s and ’90s, as the concealed-carry movement gained steam, Americans were killed by others with guns at the rate of about 5.66 per 100,000 population. In this decade, the rate has fallen to just over 4.07 per 100,000, a 28 percent drop. The decline follows a fivefold increase in the number of “shall-issue” and unrestricted concealed-carry states from 1986 to 2006.
The highest gun homicide rate is in Washington, D.C., which has had the nation’s strictest gun-control laws for years and bans concealed carry: 20.50 deaths per 100,000 population, five times the general rate. The lowest rate, 1.12, is in Utah, which has such a liberal concealed weapons policy that most American adults can get a permit to carry a gun in Utah without even visiting the state....
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Firearms deaths fall as millions obtain permits to carry concealed guns
Brett Flashnick / for msnbc.com
Attorney Jim Corley displays some of his handguns in his Columbia, S.C., office. The .32-caliber semiautomatic that he used to stop a holdup and kill a would-be robber is in the center.
....In the 1980s and ’90s, as the concealed-carry movement gained steam, Americans were killed by others with guns at the rate of about 5.66 per 100,000 population. In this decade, the rate has fallen to just over 4.07 per 100,000, a 28 percent drop. The decline follows a fivefold increase in the number of “shall-issue” and unrestricted concealed-carry states from 1986 to 2006.
The highest gun homicide rate is in Washington, D.C., which has had the nation’s strictest gun-control laws for years and bans concealed carry: 20.50 deaths per 100,000 population, five times the general rate. The lowest rate, 1.12, is in Utah, which has such a liberal concealed weapons policy that most American adults can get a permit to carry a gun in Utah without even visiting the state....
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