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There's a few things I noted on the website that's important to consider: Red Flag 1: Exclusion of Pending Applications The state demanded pending applications not be included. Red Flag 2: Exclusion of Application Date vs. Issue Date The state didn't report the application date versus the issue date . Red Flag 3: Exclusion of Demographics Demographics by locality was not provided even though the state has this on the municipality level. What's even more interesting is the fact they actually have this information. So not only were the towns instructed to not include pending submissions, the state intentionally didn't want to share it with us. They also only displayed demographics on county level by the way which was probably done intentionally (you can't find out town by town). They also don't show approval/denial rates by age or race. This is the spreadsheet every municipality had to submit: https://www.nj.gov/oag/dcj/agguide/directives/ag-Directive-2023-02_Appendix-A.xlsx for those interested. The tabulation we created can be found here: https://www.njnics.com/ptc.php

I'm fortunate enough to live in one of NJ's rural areas with several very small towns. I know a few people who have received their carry permits. The data can be found here: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/nj.office.of.justice.data/viz/PermittoCarryDashboard/Intro (click the "municipal data" tab near the top of the page). My township shows zero permits issued. I have one and I know someone else who has one. That's two and I don't know 2% of the people in my township. One township near me shows 1, I know of three. Another township shows zero and I know of two. Looks like the "official" data is about 1/3 of the people I know that have permits and a tiny, tiny fraction of the people I don't know.

The Courage To Open Fire - by William M Briggs (substack.com)

That would be https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075784/

Thankfully this didn’t happen during morning rush hour. This just goes to show that there are an incredible number of things that can go wrong, at the wrong time, when it is least expected.

I'm wondering if NJOAG actually received a response/data from those towns, or just interpreted non-response as "No permits issued." Anthony Colandro at GunForHire is questioning the total number of permits at ~35k - per his records they qualified ~14k people, and he doubts that ~1/3rd of all PTC's received qualified through his range.

More info and video of the strike Calling it a “hit” is an understatement. Bridge is gone.

Got it. My light and laser setup cost significantly more than that.

No problem at all, I was hoping it would get bid up it's for a good cause.

It was won by @Ferris thank you for the winning bid and helping a local cause, also a thanks to @JohnnyB for being involved. As stated all for a worthy cause. Also a thanks to @Smokin .50 and others for the work and time you put in.

More videos from different angles and a couple radio transmissions. The ship put out a Mayday that it lost power, and you can see the ship black out and relight several times prior to the crash. Also, a huge plume of smoke erupts just before it hits, possibly due to an emergency engine restart. There's also some comments on the shipping effects. Port Of Baltimore Paralyzed After Container Ship Strike Collapses Bridge | ZeroHedgevv