Opinion
Update, from friends in Israel:
“My daughter, an IDF veteran, carried an FN/FNS (9mm, now out-of-production, replaced by the FN 509 Series) for several years.
She has since switched to a Beretta Bobcat (22/rimfire), which she prefers for concealed carry, due to its small size and light weight**
Under our ‘Old System,’ she was granted a permit based upon where she lives. Our government had deemed her neighborhood ‘Dangerous,’ and she thus qualified under the ‘Self-Defense Reason’ for owning a firearm.
However, since 7 Oct 23, this requirement to ‘qualify’ for gun-ownership under a specific, arbitrary government-approved ‘reason’ has pretty-much vanished. Most ‘ordinary citizens,’ who can pass a police background check and jump over a few other low hurdles, are now eligible for a license.
Such license applications went from 40k/year to 40k/month after 7 Oct 23!
One still needs to pass a safe-handling test and a modest marksmanship firing course in order to obtain a license. The Range Master has to sign-off on your application. He then he hands you a ‘temporary license,’ good until your permanent license arrives in the mail. You then walk out of the gun store with the pistol you now own, together with a fifty-round box of ammunition (hardball).
Yet, competent concealment is still a big issue here!
It is not uncommon to see someone walking about with the butt of his pistol plainly sticking out from the small of his back.
Terrorists always scan bystanders before they attack. They predictably shoot first at anyone visibly armed! I therefore sternly advise all my students to keep their carry-pistols discreetly out of sight. I know discrete concealment is the norm over there in The States, but we’re still learning here.
You might find it interesting that women who are members of our ‘Israel Shooting Federation’ all routinely go armed and are extremely competent.
In addition, the vast majority of our IDF’s ‘Precision Marksmanship Instructors’ are women!”
Comment:
** I don’t recommend any rimfire pistol for serious defensive purposes! As we see, they are popular owing to their small size and light weight. But with their short barrels, they are pitifully underpowered, and small pistols chambered for 22/rimfire are only marginally reliable. Accordingly, they represent poor “life insurance”
/John
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As JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership) has established, the only sure way to insure Never Again! is to be armed, every one and every where. October 7th simply proved the point.
When Israel came into being they were immediately attacked (1948 Arab-Israeli War) I do not understand how they can support gun control. Every Israeli should be armed!
Even .380ACP is a better defensive caliber than .22LR! Underwood ammo offers +P .380 in their Extreme Defense line of monolithic copper ammo, so that makes the caliber a good alternative.
Had more of the good people of Israel been armed when October 7 happened, it would have been very different. Attacking unarmed, unsuspecting civilians, men, women, children and infants, is akin to shooting fish in a barrel. They have no place to go that is safe and they have no place to hide. That was cowardice, that was murder, that was rape. That was islam. Had the October 7th attack happened in Arizona the response would have been very different. Here we carry. Here we shoot back. Not everyone carries. Not everyone carries openly so be careful how you pick… Read more »
A relatively small percentage of Israeli citizens being permitted to carry if they live in a few specified areas and can show a need and proficiency is hardly what I would consider an “explosion.” However, it’s a step in the right direction.
send her info on lcp9 there is a braa holster for it small and still a 9 , my personal is 45 or larger I do not want to have to shoot 1 target twice , and ball ammo is military bs hollow point
at the rate of palestinian murder and starvation, the only folks you’ll need to worry about in the future are other Jews
“Most ‘ordinary citizens,’ who can pass a police background check and jump over a few other low hurdles, are now eligible for a license.”
what are these hurdles?
Since nearly 100% of the Israeli population has served in the IDF, I don’t understand the pre Oct 7th basically disarming its citizens.
I’ve commented on this issue previously and, I believe, my views are still relevant. Israel might loosen some requirements for acquiring concealed carry permits, but they’re still far off from “shall issue”, as known in the U.S. A good part of their maze of restrictions stems from the demographics of Israel. Twenty percent of the population of the Jewish state is non-Jewish, and admit it or not, there’s an underlying distrust of giving Arab citizens the same gun rights as Jews (Druze, many Bedouin and some ordinary Arabs with proven loyalty excepted). As well, they make it difficult, as the… Read more »