re: #72 Rightwingconspirator

Huh. Old School Lizard stopped in... Class of 08 and very few comments.

I’ve been saving this one for you, RWC. It seems the DCPD’s clue meter is still reading ‘zero’:

Washington D.C. approves just eight concealed carry permits

This week, under orders from a federal judge, the first concealed carry permits in the District of Columbia in 83 years were given out, and the numbers are underwhelming.

The handful of permits are an effort to appease a federal court order that mandated the nation’s capital strike down its long-standing ban on carrying guns outside the home. That case, Palmer v D.C., was decided last July by U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Scullin, who allowed the city until Oct. 22, 2014, before his judgment went into effect. The legislative response to Scullin’s order was a harsh “may-issue” set of regulations that are termed by many to be among the most restrictive concealed carry laws in the nation.

“We’ve had 69 applications, of which three were canceled at the request of the applicant,” Metropolitan Police Department representative Gwendolyn Crump told the Washington Free Beacon. “So far eight licenses have been approved and issued.”

When contrasted against the 646,449 population estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, this figure is one lawfully licensed carrier for every 80,000 residents. Nonetheless, it is the first carry outside the home authorized under the District’s laws since 1932.

What is perhaps more telling is the figure of rejected applicants, 11 so far, which surpasses even the small number of permits issued. This may be due to the strict requirements that have been termed by some gun rights advocates as giving the District a “no issue” policy.