NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Applications for gun permits have jumped in Newtown since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, which sparked a renewed debate about stricter gun control laws and a surge in gun sales around the country due to worries about new limits.
Newtown in recent years has issued about 130 gun permits annually. Police say the town received 79 permit applications in the three months since the Dec. 14 massacre, well over double the normal pace.
"A good percentage of people are making it clear they think their rights are going to be taken away," said Robert Berkins, records manager for Newtown police.
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2 comments:
Need to show that to the idiots who rode their bicycles here to tell us what to do.
Even the people in that victimized city know that gun-control only controls the law-abiding.
This action alone speaks volumes about what should really be done as a response to this incident.
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