Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Sheriff Orville Knows Best

"Approximately 380 Jasper County residents have been issued gun permits so far this year and about 10-12 are added each week according to the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department.

“It is hard to refuse a gun permit,” said Cindy Shepherd of Records at the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department. “A person must have a felony on record to be turned down. The State rejects more permits than we do. We are just the middle man.”

According to Sheriff Orville Perry the State Police have done a good job about getting permits back quickly. A system is in place so that it is not a problem with a transfer of information from the County to the State level.

There is a problem, in general, with people carrying guns with out a permit, but it is not a major problem in Jasper County according to Perry. The Sheriff said that this is hard to substantiate due to no gun registration laws being in place for Indiana.

“There are also people that qualify that shouldn’t have a firearm,” said Perry.

If it was up to the Sheriff there would be a lot of people that wouldn’t have one in Jasper County, but according to him he must follow the State’s regulations."

Dayum but it must burn his hide to give permission to alla them civilians who wanna go toting heat like they was some sort of po-liceman.

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