By Howard Nemerov

The purpose of this study is to determine the relative criminality of concealed carry licensees versus the general population of Ohio. In order to do this, we will compare the number of concealed carry license suspensions and revocations to the FBI arrest data for the entire state, yielding proxies for the violation rates of licensees and the general population, respectively.

With each succeeding year of reporting data, the results become more reliable. There are now two full year’s of data (2005 and 2006) plus partial data for 2004, when the concealed carry law went into effect in the second quarter of the year. While two and three-quarters years of data is too short to note any trends, the results are relatively consistent across the reporting years.

For the year 2006, there was a dramatic increase in the numbers of license revocations. As noted by Buckeye Firearms Association:

There was an increase in the number of revoked licenses in the first quarter. Over half (fifty-three of the one hundred and three) of the revocations were in Cuyahoga County. There were also increases in several nearby counties.¹

At first glance, this is a cause for concern. However, further research uncovered an unusual problem that caused an anomalous increase in revocations having nothing to do with licensee malfeasance.

Recent improvements to law spark surge in demand for concealed handgun licenses

By Jim Irvine

Attorney General Marc Dann has released the concealed handgun license (CHL) statistics for the third quarter of 2007. With a whopping 37% increase in demand over the prior year, there are now over 100,000 people licensed to carry concealed firearms in Ohio. Every business day, another 75 people receive their CHL in Ohio.

Taken from the most recent “Page Nine” Alan Korwin’s “The uninvited Ombudsman Report”

$3 Billion Guntax
The lamestream media told you:
Nothing.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that the 15-year total excise tax on guns and ammo, which is dedicated to conservation measures, has just topped $3 billion. The incredible achievement was missed by lamestream news outlets everywhere. State wildlife conservation and habitat restoration programs get the money, the single largest source of conservation funding.
Gun-tax collections by the Treasury Dept., paid by firearm and ammunition manufacturers and passed on to consumers, was a whopping $76.6 million in the second quarter of 2006, up 36% over the same period a year earlier. The reason the stunning increase was missing in "news" reports was unknown, but maybe they lacked space, one expert suggests.
Although the tax increase is huge, it is also a sign of robust health in the gun industry, a fact that lamestream reports keep hidden from people who don't receive Page Nine reports (or info from NSSF), both of which are free.
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"Strong handgun sales, up 44.8 percent, long-gun sales, up 37 percent, and ammo sales, up 29.2 percent," lead the surge, reports NSSF. "It is projected that $715.5 million in sales was generated in the quarter, not including retail markup or final retail sales." In other news, people are still fighting over Anna Nicole's baby.
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