However in contrast FL has 19 mil people and just shy of 956,000 permits. So 5% or so of the population. Thats a huge difference from NYC. I'm sure that there are a variety of reasons but the fact that NYC has a universally known stringent permit proccess is very likely part of it.
I agree there are a lot of reasons. I wouldn't want to compare a major city to a whole state, especially with the cultural differences between the northeast and the southeast. But I did a comparison of NYC to a large Midwestern city, just for kicks.
3000 carry permits in New York works out to about .16% of the population, compared to St. Louis, which has
21,099 permits for a much smaller population of
1,318,248, or 1.6%. Or 1.1%, if you count just the city limits of St. Louis. Including both St. Louis City and St. Louis County (two separate counties) is probably a more realistic comparison, though. Either way, that's a mighty small percentage for NYC.
