{"id":2623,"date":"2023-12-06T15:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:26:20","slug":"as-philly-crime-soared-residents-have-flocked-to-legal-gun-ownership-to-protect-themselves-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"As Philly Crime Soared, Residents Have Flocked to Legal Gun Ownership to Protect Themselves and Their Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly.jpg\" data-caption=\"Courtesy The Philadelphia Inquirer\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"432\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-696x432.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-696x432.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-700x434.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-1536x952.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-1068x662.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-677x420.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly-560x347.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ltc-philly.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Licence to carry applications Philadelphia\" title=\"Licence to carry applications Philadelphia\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Janice Tosto never thought she would become a gun owner, especially now at age 58.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>But over the last year, she began feeling a growing sense of lawlessness and danger in the city and particularly in her Germantown neighborhood. Now, she\u2019s applying for a permit to carry a firearm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI\u2019m not thrilled that I have to do this,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m kind of scared about doing this, but at the same time because of the way that things are going [with] all this lawlessness in the city, \u2026 as a Black woman, I just feel that it\u2019s really important for me to have all the tools necessary to be able to defend myself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Tosto\u2019s far from alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Since the pandemic began, gun sales and permit issuances have risen sharply in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, matching nationwide trends. In 2021, the city issued 52,230 new license-to-carry-permits, an increase of more than 600% from the year prior. In both 2020 and 2021, there were more than a million gun sales or transfers across Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>While the boom of sales and permits have slowed since their pandemic peaks, those who work in the industry attribute the increased interest in firearm ownership to fear amid growing gun violence, as with Tosto. In 2022, for example, 514 people were killed in homicides in Philadelphia, the vast majority by gun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWe get [customers] from all over,\u201d said Tom Dixon, a firearm trainer and the owner of Surplus Arm\u00e9, a gun store and manufacturer in Chester. \u201cA lot of women. Definitely a lot of women. All demographics.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/as-philly-crime-soared-residents-have-flocked-to-legal-gun-ownership-to-protect-themselves-and-their-families\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Philadelphia Inquirer Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 Janice Tosto never thought she would become a gun owner, especially now at age 58. But over the last year, she began feeling a growing sense of lawlessness and danger in the city and particularly in her Germantown neighborhood. Now, she\u2019s applying for a permit to carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}