Handgun Permits - County by County

[felinesNfreedom]

Cruel, I will say I carry every day. I feel weird without my M&P on me.

[Cruel Hand Luke]

Awesome. And there are some people who DO but they are a minority of HCP holders...not the majority. 

[xsubsailor]

Drive around Memphis a little and watch the local news and you'll wonder why so low.

 

 Probably because felons can't get one, hence the low percentage (5.83%)  :)

[QuietDan]

Thanks for the spreadsheet BigK! 

 

"One more column" could be the number of households in Tennessee versus the number of permit holders, which is 482,073 permit holders divided by 2,475,195 households for almost 20 percent (19.47%) of households.

 

That suggests that when you see a family unit walking into Walmart, there's a one in five chance that Mom or Dad are packing. Restaurants might want to think about that as well with gun buster signs: do you want to run off one in five customer families? Probably not, and still stay in business.

Edited February 3, 2015 by QuietDan

[itchytriggerfinger]

Here is a map I whipped up.  Number of permits light to dark.

 

Edited February 4, 2015 by itchytriggerfinger

[ProfEngr]

When put that way...

 

We won our independence from england with only 3% up in arms. That means 97% were either indifferent or against the war. It's no wonder this country is in a stinkin' mess with those odds. The apathy is disgusting.

[bird333]

Where did the county population figures come from?

[peejman]

Here is a map I whipped up.  Number of permits light to dark.

 

 

 

Is the color scheme based on quantity or percent of county population?

[itchytriggerfinger]

It's just total permits.  If someone wants to send me an excel sheet with permit counts and population I can create a new one with percent of population.

[bvarnell]

Where did the county population figures come from?

 

U.S. census bureau.

 

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

[luvmyberetta]

My wife & I just mailed in our HCP renewal yesterday.   :usa:

It's hard to believe it's already been almost four years since we got our permits.

Edited February 14, 2015 by luvmyberetta

[jimbo44]

A lot less than I thought there would be.

Edited February 27, 2015 by jimbo44