Number One with a Bullet; Allegheny County has One Unheralded Distinction; We're Hidden Handgun Heaven.

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"I don't carry all the time, but there are times when I have to carry a large amount of money on me," says the first vice president of the Allegheny County Sportsmen's League and the caretaker of the Monroeville-Pitcairn Sportsmen's Club. "To be honest, there are also certain areas I wouldn't walk in without a gun. Certain areas are known to be pretty nasty."

"The two main problems we have with the law" in Pennsylvania, says the Brady Campaign's Ramsey, "is that there is no requirement to take a gun safety course and that law enforcement has no discretion when handing these things out. If the person is a domestic abuser, or just a little off, but never convicted, he can't be denied a permit. That's a little scary."

Even in Alabama, some aspects of Pennsylvania's permissive permitting don't sit well. Pat Roberts, Alabama's deputy attorney general, has been working on reciprocity agreements between Alabama and other concealed-carry states, like Pennsylvania. "Here," Roberts says, "the chief or the sheriff likely knows the person he's giving a permit to and he can deny the permit even if he has the feeling that the guy might just be a little off."

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Number One with a Bullet; Allegheny County has One Unheralded Distinction; We're Hidden Handgun Heaven.

WE MAY NO LONGER be the most livable city, but Pittsburghers still have one more top national ranking to make their chests puff with pride: Allegheny County might issue more concealed carry gun permits than anywhere else in the country.

According to the Allegheny County Sheriff's office, there are 47,278 active concealed carry permits, with another 2,000 or so in the process of being renewed. These permits allow citizens to carry concealed handguns anywhere, apart from schools, courthouses and other restricted pl...

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