Monday - January 12, 2009
Utah setting gun records
Utahns quick to draw concealed weapons permits
[quick to draw. Get it? Hur hur hur]
Gun owners are flooding the state with applications for concealed weapons permits, with almost 45,000 applications filed in 2008, easily a record number, quadrupling the figure from just four years ago.With the surge, about one in every 25 Utahns over age 21 could be carrying a licensed concealed weapon, according to a Salt Lake Tribune analysis of numbers from the Bureau of Criminal Identification.
In December, alone, BCI received 6,000 permit requests—the highest number ever, capping a year with six record-breaking months.
In all, about 71,000 Utahns have a license to pack a concealed weapon. It is estimated that another 71,000 out-of-state residents have a Utah permit.
Maybe they are afraid of a Proposition 8 invasion. Maybe it’s an Obama thing. Maybe they think their state is falling into disrepute and they no longer feel safe. Maybe they just like guns.
Utah is a very popular state for out of state CCW applications too, because of it’s high degree of reciprocity with other states. Surprise, Mr. Liberal! While almost every state will issue CCW permits to their residents, many will recognize the permits of other states as valid in their state. And the state with the highest level of reciprocity is Utah. Even scarier, Utah (and many other states as well) will issue you a CCW even if you don’t live there! Which means, assuming New Jersey sees fit to issue me my handgun purchase/ownership permit, which is NOT a CCW, I could get a Utah permit and then legally have a gun in my pocket in Pennsylvania! Just like a real American!!
“Utahns”? WTF? Is that what they call themselves? Is that the best they can come up with? I’d go with Utonians, but that sounds like some branch of Scientology. How about Utahnis? At least that sort of sounds like the name of some Native American tribe. Yeah yeah, Utes, a real tribe, I know. But if they used that name, then what would you call their residents who are over age 18? 
Posted by Drew458
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