My parents both live in NY State, and have jumped through the appropriate hoops to get pistol permits there. They had them since I was a young teenager.
(you pretty much NEED a LEO Signoff there to get one... and it's NY. Think about how hard that is
)Granted, they're still not 'carry' permits, but rather just 'you're allowed to own' permits...
... however that did not stop them from carrying many, many times when I lived there.
Granted, they don't carry daily, but if my mom knows that she's going to a not-so-pleasant area of the local city, she'll put a Tomcat in her purse...
(She may have upgraded to one of the new .380's, but when I was a kid, it was a TomCat)
In the winter, my father carries a S&W .44mag in a shoulder holster when he carries....
(He also uses it to hunt deer during hunting season.. but thats a different story
)Much easier to carry large handguns under a large coat
They're both subscribers to the 'judged by 12, carried by 6' rule.
In fact, when my father came and visited me earlier this year, he asked me why I didn't have MY CCW yet...
... I told him it was still processing
