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LarryH wrote:No one has yet mentioned the statement in the article that the 1-in-9 statistic was probably typical of the whole state.
PA 11% TX has a long way to go.

You may be right. I found one site with some old data. It states that in 1998, 6.76% of Pennsylvanians over the age of 21 held permits. The data is probably harder to collect since the permits are issued by the county, rather than the state. I am guessing, but since the trends for most other states are increasing the Pennsylvania numbers are probably also higher than the 1998 figures.

That's impressive.TX has a long way to go.

You are definitely right about that.

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Some other tidbits: There are 67 counties in Pennsylvania. Luzerne County is the only county in the United States with a plurality of citizens reporting Polish as their primary ancestry. The estimated 2008 population of Luxerne County is 311,983. The registered voters are 59.26% democrat.

Oldgringo wrote:Neither my Bro's Tennessee CC license and nor my BIL's Alabama license have photo's on 'em and their permit/licenses sure didn't cost anywhere near what my Texas CHL did either. The Texas CHL should have a picture of a cow, a green ca$h cow, on the back.

I hear that Tennessee and Alabama are nice this time of year.

baldeagle wrote:This part of the article caught my eye. (I'm not quoting - paraphrasing.)

If you have no criminal record and no history of mental problems, you fill out an application, pay the $31 fee, wait for the sheriff's department to conduct an instant background check and walk out of the sheriff's department with your license. The whole process can be completed in 15 minutes.

You don't suppose the ease and the low price have something to do with the high number of license carriers, do you?

I have known that Pennsylvania had a quick and inexpensive licensing process. I believe that their license is paper [not laminated] and has no picture on it.

Records show 26,343 people in Luzerne County have a permit to carry a concealed gun.
That's one in nine people in the county over the age of 21.
That's a lot of guns out there! Not very good odds for a BG.

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