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No gun sales have been high for a decade now. Our Concealed weapons program is like every other program in Florida old, slow, underfunded, and no plan to update it. People that move here also add to that system which I think is what is driving it over the past year or so.
Typical Florida stuff.
There is a big spike in Concealed permits in black communities, been a recent change since 2020. Its reflected at gun ranges where I was 1 of few, now it's way more common.
No gun sales have been high for a decade now. Our Concealed weapons program is like every other program in Florida old, slow, underfunded, and no plan to update it. People that move here also add to that system which I think is what is driving it over the past year or so.
Typical Florida stuff.
There is a big spike in Concealed permits in black communities, been a recent change since 2020. Its reflected at gun ranges where I was 1 of few, now it's way more common.
It took nearly five months for my wife and me to receive our concealed weapons permit. We completed the applications at the neighborhood tax collector office (convenient) and they scanned over the training certificates to the Department of Ag and Consumer Services in Tallahassee (I believe).
They kicked both back because the certificate "did not display the applicant's name". This was clearly not the case on the originals but I assumed the scan from the satellite office to the main office may have been the culprit.
I called, and called, called, and called some more before I reached an actual person. She verified the original scans contained legible names and signatures. She had no idea "what the hell" the issue was. I faxed over high-quality copies of the originals. And waited, waited, and waited some more.
No updates were posted on the online tracker for over three months. I called many times only for an automated voice to tell me to "call back later". I would jump on the chat window early in the morning and strangely, I was always "number 84" in line. I left it up all day and never reached a human.
Until one day I did. About 10 days later, we received our CCW permits.
Nikki Fried runs the Department of Ag and Consumer Services. Slow-walking concealed weapons permits is squarely on her.
Maybe it's the new people moving to Florida from the midwest and northeast attracted by the spirit in Florida. Many Floridians already have their guns. It's must be the new folks.
"Florida last year had the most people in the U.S. move in from other states. It has New York to thank.
New York contributed the most to Florida’s inflow of people, with 63,722 people moving from the Empire State to the Sunshine State in 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau said Monday."
"Roughly 950 people move to Florida every day and the state has seen 'unprecedented demand' and an uptick in luxury home sales as people in northern states flee large cities amid the pandemic for more space and sunnier shores."
I live in CA and gun and ammunition stores are out of stock since March of last year. I’ve never seen anything like this including after the tragic school shooting at Newtown in 2012.
Maybe people of all races and political persuasions are just nervous about cities letting people riot and loot, surges in violence and calls to defund police?
Logically, most serious gun types already had those permits. So whom are the new people?
Also, a number of new license seekers are going to *gasp* be liberals and so forth. They're just not going to tell people. Especially not in the current puritanical phase of the far left slapping scarlett letters around like a pack of right wing church ladies for wrong think.
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New Residents May be fueling record gun sales?
