“Our latest study, Permit-to-Carry Application Outcomes in New Jersey (2019–2024), provides a comprehensive county-level analysis of firearm permit applications across the state,” Rise Against Hate documents. “This research uncovers significant racial disparities in permit denials, revealing that Black individuals are 10.38 times more likely to be denied a permit compared to their White counterparts when adjusted for population.”
The study is being promoted by John Petrolino, who, while he has done much research on the subject including giving a presentation on racial bias and gun permits at the Second Amendment Foundation’s 2024 Gun Rights Policy Conference, makes it clear “Rise Against Hate saw my coverage over at Bearing Arms and decided to launch their own independent investigation… I did not have anything to do with this study…they only saw my work and it caused them to do an independent peer-reviewed analysis of data they procured. The data is published at Harvard.”
Petrolino, a Merchant Marine Engineering Officer, writer, and NRA certified instructor is familiar to AmmoLand Shooting Sports News readers as the author of Decoding Firearms – An Easy to Read Guide on General Gun Safety and Use, and more recently for being elected to the board of directors of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. His, and Rise Against Hate’s exposés add to a tradition of chronicling how racism has historically shaped the citizen disarmament attempts by gun prohibitionists.
Notable among such efforts are historian Clayton Cramer’s landmark “The Racist Roots of Gun Control.” Another compelling recounting of the historical record is Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership’s provocatively titled “No Guns for Negroes.” Other additions to the evidentiary record include comments made and then suppressed by the nation’s premiere gun prohibition financier, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who pressured the Aspen Institute and Grassroots TV to spike distribution of a video of his speech in which he advocated for cities to bar minority males up to age 25 from having guns.
As for evidence of specific discriminatory practices regarding minorities and concealed carry permits, this correspondent noted that the concealed carry corruption probe into “pay to play” permits issued by the Santa Clara (CA) Sheriff wouldn’t be complete if demographics were ignored. They have been because California’s ruling elite is invested in “gun control,” and being dominated by Democrats who push disarmament while relying on minority voters, there is no incentive to reveal themselves as sources of discrimination.
That holds true nationwide.
The Congressional Black Caucus pushes “gun control.” So does the influential NAACP, “spiritual leaders” like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, community influencers like the African American Mayors Association and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, and powerful media influencers like Black Entertainment Television.
And while many Second Amendment advocates have been celebrating a marked increase in minority gun ownership, a fundamental question remains:
How do they vote?
Unfortunately, as much as some like to pretend it doesn’t matter, we do not live in post-racial America. Articles like this, exposed to a niche audience and limited in reach, won’t be heeded by most Democrat-voting black gun owners, and probably won’t even be seen. So the reality is, a lot of it falls on the gun instructors to influence their students, and to put it bluntly, to make it known that voting for their disarmers is voting for their overseers and drivers.
Until discrimination involving recognition of the right to keep and bear arms is met with angry rejection and exposure of it for what it is — by its victims — expect it to continue. And expect the citizen disarmament lobby to ignore research like the Rise Against Hate study knowing it can continue to count on politicians and the media not “noticing.”
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
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