Category Archives: Guns

CRPA Bylaws

It can be tough to find an online copy of the bylaws for the California Rifle & Pistol association. Here is a link to a copy of the bylaws – the markups show changes proposed by Gene Hoffman, which were rejected without comment by the board of the CRPA. If anyone’s got a clean copy…

California Rifle & Pistol Association

Sometimes it’s tough to find information about the California Rifle & Pistol Association. I got copies of their recent tax filings from Guidestar and the CA Attorney General’s webpage and am making them available here so they can be found easily, and eventually OCR’d and indexed by search engines. Enjoy! CRPA 2009 Form 990 CRPA…

Concealed carry permits and homicide rates

Just to see if there’s an easy parallel to the More Guns Less Crime argument, I decided to compare the concealed carry permit issue rate to homicide rates. I found the California Dept of Justice’s page of homicide statistics per county per year. Turns out the five counties with the worst homicide rates in 2003…

Concealed Carry Permits in California, per capita by county

I happened to notice that the California Dept of Justice’s Firearms Division has placed online a report listing, by county, the number of concealed handgun permits issued during the period 1990-2003. I thought it would be interesting to compare the issue rates by population – so I found some census population estimates by county, and…