The number of New Yorkers petitioning to arm themselves with guns — both at home and on the streets — more than doubled last year, according to new data on NYPD license and permit applications ...

Madison County Commonwealth’s Attorney Clarissa Berry said the last quarter of the year, there were more applications for concealed handgun permits than normal, but she expects a continued uptick in ...

CHARLOTTE — The pace which concealed carry permits have been issued in Mecklenburg County has been the subject of a court fight for years. “Sheriff (Garry) McFadden always has a reason for obstructing ...

More than 41,300 gun owners applied for carry permits in New Jersey after the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2022 declared a constitutional right to carry. That's 26 times as many applied in the two years ...

A judge on Tuesday barred Nassau County police from demanding gun permit applicants get drug tested and provide other proof of good character to obtain a handgun license, calling the requirement ...

Gun permit applications in Newtown, Conn., have more than doubled since the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in December, mirroring a nationwide trend of increased gun sales. Newtown, a city ...

A new Colorado law aimed at making it more difficult to obtain a concealed handgun permit spurred a triple-digit spike in applications in Larimer and Weld counties before going into effect. The law, ...

Members of the gun rights lobby had argued that the state’s infrastructure was faulty, and could result in a de facto ban for would-be buyers.

LANCASTER − Since 2022 when Gov. Mike DeWine signed constitutional carry into law, Ohio gun owners have not needed a concealed carry license from the sheriff's office to carry concealed. The law also ...

NEW YORK — Amid ongoing fear of crime, more than 13,300 New Yorkers applied for licenses to carry guns in the city last year, a near-double increase compared to 2022 — and the New York City Police ...