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St. Petersburg Times - Looser gun laws, including open carry, in Florida's future

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Pinellas county is a smaller version of the rest of the state.

It's like a flacid dangly penis that needs to be cut off and sink into the ocean. Outside of the Miami/Dade mess, it's possibly the worst part of the State. Tampa is a close Third.

If there were a giant Meteor Impact there, I wouldn't miss it.
 
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Rich7553 said:
Nope. Per DOACS website, there were 1.9 million issued since 1987, and about 780,000 of those are currently active.
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And how many have been issued since 1987?

Just because a bunch of people left the state or let it expire (like I did) since 1987 doesn't mean the only people to ever apply were back in 1987. I'm pretty sure a rather large amount of applications have been sent in since then. Citing those which are still active of the original first year is not a useful representation.

There are quite a lot. It was covered in another thread. Over 5% of the eligible population was the most qualified number I saw.
 
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ixtow said:
And how many have been issued since 1987?

Just because a bunch of people left the state or let it expire (like I did) since 1987 doesn't mean the only people to ever apply were back in 1987. I'm pretty sure a rather large amount of applications have been sent in since then. Citing those which are still active of the original first year is not a useful representation.

There are quite a lot. It was covered in another thread. Over 5% of the eligible population was the most qualified number I saw.
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I think you misunderstand. According to the DOACS:

From 10/1/87 - 1/31/11 (since shall issue became law), there have been 1,944,284 applications received. Of those, 1,918,601 licenses have been issued. As of 1/31/11, there are 786,884 licenses currently valid.
 
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