New Jersey has now put together a website on their concealed carry permits. Since the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision, New Jersey has approve 34,589 concealed handgun permits had denied 256 applications — an acceptance rate of 99.3%. In the twelve months before Bruen, there was an average of 50.8 permit applications per month. In the twelve months afterwards, there were 1,657.8, a massive increase of 32.6 times. While data on the approval rate before Bruen isn’t provided, it is very likely well below the 99.3% post-Bruen rate, so the gap in the rate of permits is likely much greater than the 32.6 fold difference.
The average age for permit holders after Bruen was 47.9 years old. Blacks and Asians are underrepresented compared to their shares of the population (blacks 13.1% of permit holders and 15.4% of the population, Asians 2.3% of permit holders and 10.5% of the population0, while whites are slightly over represented (56.2% of permit holders and 52.9% of the population). In addition, while 28% of permit holders nationwide are women, in New Jersey it is only 6.8%.
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