GAO Study

[stash]

Read in the paper yesterday the GAO (investigative arm of congress) recently conducted a study of active concealed weapons permits by state as of 12/31/2011. Texas was in the top five along with Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Indiana.

Article did not indicate what the Feds interest in this was.

[The Annoyed Man]

Article did not indicate what the Feds interest in this was.

That's the part that really bothers me. Why do the taxpayers of say.....California need to know how many CHL holders Texas has......since they helped to pay for it? I sincerely hope that the study consisted of no more than a phone call to each governor.

"How many ya got?"

"Put me down for 385,000."

It shouldn't have cost more than the salary of one clerical worker for one morning.......but I'll bet it didn't.

[RSJ]

Read in the paper yesterday the GAO (investigative arm of congress) recently conducted a study of active concealed weapons permits by state as of 12/31/2011. Texas was in the top five along with Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Indiana.

Article did not indicate what the Feds interest in this was.

Thank you for the info! Somewhat surprised in these results!

[tomneal]

There is or was a bill in congress to mandate CHL reciprocity from Washington DC.
Sounds like this study would have been more relevant than most of the studies I read about on the internet.

[gdanaher]

Don't assume that there is something sinister going on. There might be, but don't assume such. It might have something to do with the fees the feds charge to do the FBI check, The number of licenses per state checking out audit-wise with the revenue generated for the background checks might be an issue. Most federal agencies are supposed to provide optional services at no actual cost to the tax payer. Example: if a radio amateur requests a 'vanity' callsign, he has to pay a fee which has been calculated to cover the actual manpower costs of researching and issuing the license. Or, it might be a sinister action on the part of the feds.

[Shoot_First]

Here's a link to the 90 page GAO study:

http://gao.gov/assets/600/592552.pdf

[atticus]

Perhaps the information helps the democrat congressional and senate re-election committees decide where and how to commit election resources. Maybe even Obama will pay attention to those numbers. Otherwise, not much obvious use for that information.

[RoyGBiv]

Can someone save me 90 pages of reading and tell me if the numbers in the OP are based on percent of population or just gross total number of permits?

Cheers.

[bkj]

Read in the paper yesterday the GAO (investigative arm of congress) recently conducted a study of active concealed weapons permits by state as of 12/31/2011. Texas was in the top five along with Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Indiana.

Article did not indicate what the Feds interest in this was.

Thank you for the info! Somewhat surprised in these results!

Pennsylvania has more NRA members then Texas

[RSJ]

Read in the paper yesterday the GAO (investigative arm of congress) recently conducted a study of active concealed weapons permits by state as of 12/31/2011. Texas was in the top five along with Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Indiana.

Article did not indicate what the Feds interest in this was.

Thank you for the info! Somewhat surprised in these results!

Pennsylvania has more NRA members then Texas

really? per capita or total?????

[fannypacker]

More waste of our money. A simple certified letter to each state should have brought the answer to them.