According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, 54 percent of blacks now see gun ownership as a good thing, something more likely to protect than harm. That’s up from 29 percent just two years ago. In places like Detroit, more African-Americans are getting permits to carry concealed weapons.
At a practice range just outside of Detroit, Rick Ector trains new gun owners. He says the new chief’s attitude is a welcome change.
“He’s the only one that I can ever recall who has been fervently in support of ‘good Americans,’ as he terms it, carrying firearms for personal protection,” he says.
Ector thinks African-Americans nationally have been slower to embrace concealed-carry because so many of them live in places where it’s still more restricted. Both Chief Craig and Ector are black.
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