2aguy
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Yep...women are one of the biggest growth areas in gun ownership in the country, they are tired of feeling powerles in the face of criminals that democrats keep letting out of jail...
There’s been a surge in the number of Utah women who carry guns — here’s why
“Gun culture has been very male-dominated. It’s been a boys’ club,” she said. “I think that’s finally starting to change.”
Just 22 percent — roughly 1 in 5 — of all the 714,000 valid concealed carry permits ever issued by the Utah Department of Public Safety are held by women. The rate has slowly risen each year from 14 percent of the total in 2013.
But for the 30,000 issued in 2017, women constituted nearly two-thirds of new holders. Never for a single year in the past decade has the female proportion been so high, according to data obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune from the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification.
So who are these women, and why are they taking up arms?
There’s been a surge in the number of Utah women who carry guns — here’s why
“Gun culture has been very male-dominated. It’s been a boys’ club,” she said. “I think that’s finally starting to change.”
Just 22 percent — roughly 1 in 5 — of all the 714,000 valid concealed carry permits ever issued by the Utah Department of Public Safety are held by women. The rate has slowly risen each year from 14 percent of the total in 2013.
But for the 30,000 issued in 2017, women constituted nearly two-thirds of new holders. Never for a single year in the past decade has the female proportion been so high, according to data obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune from the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification.
So who are these women, and why are they taking up arms?