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Concealed Handgun Permits Report

24 Sunday Jan 2016

Posted by Dagny Gromer in guns, RKBA

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New study from the Crime Prevention Center on concealed handgun permits show how more guns = less crime.

Murder rate goes down as armed adults goes up.

Other interesting facts:

Since President Obama’s election the number of concealed handgun permits has soared, growing from 4.6 million in 2007 to over 12.8 million this year. Among the findings in our report:
— The number of concealed handgun permits is increasing at an ever- increasing rate. Over the past year, 1.7 million additional new permits have been issued – a 15.4% increase in just one single year. This is the largest ever single-year increase in the number of concealed handgun permits.
— 5.2% of the total adult population has a permit.
— Five states now have more than 10% of their adult population with concealed handgun permits.
— In ten states, a permit is no longer required to carry in all or virtually all of the state. This is a major reason why legal carrying handguns is growing so much faster than the number of permits.
— Since 2007, permits for women has increased by 270% and for men by 156%.
— Some evidence suggests that permit holding by minorities is increasing more than twice as fast as for whites.
— Between 2007 and 2014, murder rates have fallen from 5.6 to 4.2 (preliminary estimates) per 100,000. This represents a 25% drop in the murder rate at the same time that the percentage of the adult population with permits soared by 156%. Overall violent crime also fell by 25 percent over that period of time.
— States with the largest increase in permits have seen the largest relative drops in murder rates.
— Concealed handgun permit holders are extremely law-abiding. In Florida and Texas, permit holders are convicted of misdemeanors or felonies at one-sixth the rate that police officers are convicted.

 

Playing with a very expensive lens

24 Sunday Jan 2016

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Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED, photography

A friend rented a Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED lens and I got to shoot a few frames through it with my D600. It’s very, very nice. It’s also a little expensive 😦

I put 3 raw files on DropBox at this link. These are 32 MB or so each and you need special software such as Lightroom or Photoshop to view the raw images.

Here’s the jpeg version of the photos. You can’t see how well this lens works from these.

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Pit Bull in Motion

20 Wednesday Jan 2016

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Neighbor’s dog Vinnie in motion. He runs back and forth along this fence line, often barking at our dogs and the dogs in another neighbor’s yard. Vinnie is a large pit bull.

Pit Bull in Motion

Casey

20 Wednesday Jan 2016

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Friends Duane and Juanita came to visit today and brought their dog Casey. After a few minutes of barking and snarling, our dogs calmed down and were fine with him. He met neighbor dogs Snow and Keda through the fence.

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Casey Meeting Keda and Snow

Tuesday’s Cats

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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Today I photographed some of the cats that are available for adoption at the Yavapai Humane Society.

Senior cat Indy, 12 years old, is looking for a home. He’s waiting at the Yavapai Humane Society
Indy

Tiffany, playing very intently
Tiffany

Arlene
Arlene

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