“Constant Line” for Concealed Carry Licenses

Lackawanna County Sheriff John Szymanski has been forced to extend business hours just for concealed carry license applications, pick-ups, and to answer questions about gun permits. Twice a week, his office will remain open until 8pm just to handle the approximately 40 permits a day he has been issuing since the beginning of the month. Last month, he issued 413 permits. That was up over the same month in 2011 by 56%.

The story says that the sheriff’s office couldn’t handle the “constant line” of applicants, so now they have a sign-in sheet–in addition to the added hours. The added hours will be in effect until at least the end of February, but will go back to normal once the rush slows down.

That said, if any Lackawanna County Second Amendment supporters wanted to know of a line of gun owners just waiting to “do something,” this would be a great place to collect signatures on letters to Congress. You know that everyone in the line lives in the county, and it’s only split between two districts – Reps. Tom Marino and Matt Cartwright. Cartwright campaigned on a gun control platform pretty much as extreme as anything you’ve heard about on the table federally, but Marino could use the extra voices telling him to stand up for gun owners. (That said, if anyone is in Cartwright’s district, you should write him anyway.)