Posted September 19, 2017 1:30 pm by Comments

By Dean Weingarten

More Realtors Carry Guns for Safety, Self-Defense

By Dean Weingarten

Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- 25 percent of men and 12 percent of women members of The National Association of Realtors (NAR) carry self defense firearms, according to the 2017 safety report. The number of members who carried a firearm totaled 19 percent.

The organization has published safety reports that show how many member carry weapons since 2015.

In 2014 real estate agent Beverly Carter was kidnapped and murdered. The crime made national news. The president elect of the National Association of Realtors vowed to make safety a priority.

From cnn.com:

Carter was killed in September, “Realtor Safety Month,” for the National Association of Realtors.

The group’s president elect, Chris Polychron, has promised to make safety a priority when he takes office.

“We’re not going to let it die, I can tell you that,” he said. “It’s sad that it took a tragic death of one of our own to run the red flag up.”

An article from 2014 reported this step as being recommended by the National Association of Realtors:

10. Don’t assume that everyone has left the premises at the end of an open house. Check all of the rooms …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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