N.C. Sheriffs Buried Report Showing Dangerous Flaws In Jim Crow-Era Pistol Permit System

By Bob Owens

The leading opponent to North Carolina House Bill 562 has been the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA), which has steadfastly claimed that the existing discretionary handgun permitting system targeted for repeal as part of HB 562 is superior to the FBI NICS permitting system used by most of the rest of the nation for both handgun and long gun purchases.

Grass Roots North Carolina has discovered that the hasn’t been truthful, however, and that the organization buried a required 2014 report showing just how dangerously flawed that the system is for the citizens of North Carolina, providing permits to felons at a rate four times higher than NICS:

• [NICS] reports included 165 or 23.5% of permits being subject to revocation in Camden County and 35,488 or 38% of permits being subject to revocation in Mecklenburg County.”
• “…sheriffs’ offices [submitted] 674,806 permits for review representing 344,338 different permit holders. CJLEADS returned 26,637 permits to sheriffs as subject to revocation due to an event or condition that occurred subsequent to the issuance of the permit that would have disqualified the individual from receiving a pistol purchase permit at application.” [That rate is about 4%, or four times higher than NICS, suggesting that the …read more

  Source:: Bearing Arms