Here’s What a Newspaper Found After Fact-Checking Gun Advocates’ Claim About Concealed Handgun License Holders

By Kate Scanlon

While debating Texas’ new open carry law, supporters of the measure often argued that less than one-third of one percent of those convicted of crimes in the state of Texas have a concealed handgun license.

Using statistics published by the Texas Department of Public Safety to fact-check the claim, a local newspaper has determined that the claim is true.

Dayton News of Dayton, Texas, determined that of the 50,869 convictions of individuals age 21 or over that year for violent crimes in Texas in 2013, only 158 convicted individuals — or 0.3106 percent — held a concealed handgun license.

Dayton News notes that “these numbers do not reflect convictions for any and all crimes.”

They do not include, for example, convictions for drug crimes, frauds, or traffic offenses. The statistics included in the annual CHL holders conviction reports are limited almost entirely to violent crimes and weapons-related offenses — such as murders, sexual assaults, kidnappings, and terroristic threats — although they do also include convictions for a small number of …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze