{"id":72410,"date":"2017-04-07T01:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=72410"},"modified":"2017-04-07T01:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T21:00:42","slug":"gun-permits-up-73-percent-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-permits-up-73-percent-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Permits Up 73 Percent in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_72411\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WB-Gun-Permits-4-6-17-new-1-640x400.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-permits-up-73-percent-in-connecticut\" title=\"Gun Permits Up 73 Percent in Connecticut\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72411\" title=\"Gun Permits Up 73 Percent in Connecticut\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WB-Gun-Permits-4-6-17-new-1-640x400-400x250.png\" alt=\"Gun Permits Up 73 Percent in Connecticut\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WB-Gun-Permits-4-6-17-new-1-640x400-400x250.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WB-Gun-Permits-4-6-17-new-1-640x400-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WB-Gun-Permits-4-6-17-new-1-640x400.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-72411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: Wilton Bulletin<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year was a huge year for gun permits in The Constitution State, according to a report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiltonbulletin.com\/98420\/gun-permits-galore-in-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"gun-permits-up-73-percent-in-connecticut\" title=\"Gun Permits Up 73 Percent in Connecticut\">The Wilton Bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut State Police issued a total of 29,941 permits in 2016, a 73 percent increase from 2015 when 17,127 permits were issued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know why,\u201d Trooper Kelly Grant, spokesman for the state police said in response to the question concerning the spike in applications. \u201cEveryone who gets a pistol permit has a different reason for wanting a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Mike Bazinet, a spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry\u2019s trade association, to shed some light on this mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a record year for firearms sales across the country, and an all-time record for criminal background checks to get a handgun permit,\u201d said Bazinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne factor certainly was the concern that a Clinton administration would try to impose stringent gun control laws,\u201d Bazinet continued. In Connecticut, another factor came into play as well. That factor was the strict 2013 gun control laws in the state that made it impossible to buy ammunition without a permit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yup, along with New York, California and several others, Connecticut passed sweeping gun control legislation in the wake of the 2012 killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need an ammunition permit now, and a pistol permit covers all future acquisition of firearms, so it drove people to seek pistol permits,\u201d Bazinet said. \u201cThe permits are up even more than they would have gone up anyway, just based on Hillary Clinton running for office. So it was an unintended effect of the gun control law. I am aware of people who have gotten a pistol permit just to buy ammunition, and not even bought a pistol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To get an idea of the scope of the increase, the local paper gave out this data which is the number of gun permits per 100 residents for some towns in Fairfield County, followed by the total number of permits and the number purchased in 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton \u2014 20.95 per 100, for a total of 8,382. Permits numbered 271 in 2015 and 456 in 2016, an increase of 40%.<br \/>\nRedding \u2014 20.12 per 100, for a total of 1,852. Permits numbered 32 in 2015 and 65 in 2016, an increase of 50%.<br \/>\nMonroe \u2014 19.01 per 100, for a total of 3,731. Permits numbered 108 in 2015 and 201 in 2016, an increase of 46%.<br \/>\nEaston \u2014 18.82 per 100, for a total of 1,421. Permits numbered 52 in 2015 and 86 in 2016, an increase of 39%.<br \/>\nMilford \u2014 15.72 per 100, for a total of 8,316. Permits numbered 411 in 2015 and 563 in 2016, an increase of 27%.<br \/>\nTrumbull \u2014 14.41 per 100, for a total of 5,224. Permits numbered 159 in 2015 and 320 in 2016, an increase of 50%.<br \/>\nStratford \u2014 13.34 per capita, for a total of 6,986. Permits numbered 299 in 2015 and 445 in 2016, an increase of 48%.<br \/>\nWeston \u2014 11.92 per 100, for a total of 1,223. Permits numbered 37 in 2015 and 64 in 2016, an increase of 42%.<br \/>\nRidgefield \u201411.14 per 100, for a total of 2,767. Permits numbered 78 in 2015 and 151 in 2016, an increase of 48%.<br \/>\nWilton \u201410.41 per 100, for a total of 1,911 gun permits, according to the state police. Permits numbered 44 in 2015 and 96 in 2016, an increase of 54%.<br \/>\nNew Canaan \u2014 9.32 per 100, for a total of 1,858. Permits numbered 74 in 2015 and 88 in 2016, an increase of 16%.<br \/>\nNorwalk \u2014 8.38 gun per 100, for a total of 7,250. Permits numbered 283 in 2015 and 460 in 2016, an increase of 38%.<br \/>\nWestport \u2014 7.83 per 100, for a total of 2,097. Permit increase was not available.<br \/>\nDarien \u2014 7.02 per 100, for a total of 1,468. Permits numbered 98 in 2015 and 122 in 2016, an increase of 19%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut State Police issued a total of 29,941 permits in 2016, a 73 percent increase from 2015 when 17,127 permits were issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":72411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,127,607,311],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-72410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-concealed-carry","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nssf"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gun Permits Up 73 Percent in Connecticut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Connecticut State Police issued a total of 29,941 permits in 2016, a 73 percent increase from 2015 when 17,127 permits were issued.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-permits-up-73-percent-in-connecticut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gun Permits Up 73 Percent in Connecticut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Connecticut State Police issued a total of 29,941 permits in 2016, a 73 percent increase from 2015 when 17,127 permits were issued.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/gun-permits-up-73-percent-in-connecticut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-07T05:33:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-20T21:00:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WB-Gun-Permits-4-6-17-new-1-640x400.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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