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Tennessee women are getting armed. The number of handgun carry permits issued to women by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security more than doubled between 2011 and 2013. The largest percentage of permits for women were issued to women aged 46-50.
According to Times News Middle Tennessee State University criminal justice professor Carter F. Smith said the increase in permits issued to women may have something to do with the political climate.
“I suspect the reason for increased permits for women is tied to the reason there have been increased permits for all. My suspicions are that there was a push, formal or informal, tied to a concern that constitutional rights to gun ownership were likely to be threatened,” he said, noting discussions that happened after two mass shootings in the U.S. in 2012.
