Posted March 10, 2015 7:00 pm by Comments

By Johannes Paulsen

Residents of the Volunteer State are stepping up and packing heat, according to statistics released by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. In January 2008, 191,208 Tennesseans had carry permits. As of February 2015, that number has mushroomed to 488,911. With 6.5 million people now living in Tennessee, that means roughly one out of every thirteen Vols are licensed to carry . . .

Dave Boucher, writing for The Tennessean, concurrently reports that the number of “crimes against persons” involving a firearm in Tennessee <a class="colorbox" href="http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/08/handgun-permits-rise-lawmakers-look-ease-gun-laws/24523649/" target="_blank" …read more

Via:: Truth About Guns

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