Illinois — 103,000 March 2015 to 119,337 June 6, 2015 to 143,386 December 31, 2015 (Richard Pearson, ISRA)

Indiana — 595,361 June 30, 2015 to 630,000 in January 2016 (other data here)

Iowa — 220,000 December 2014 to 250,000 December 2015, to 254,000 in January 2016.

Kansas — 94,093 March 2015 to 100,000 in May 2015

Kentucky — given five year permits it appears as if going from December 31, 2013 to December 31, 2014 increased the number of permits by about 23,000

Louisiana — End of 2015 report Gender, race

Michigan — 500,943 June 30, 2015 to 516,612 February 1, 2016, 539,036 March 24, 2016 (7.35% of adult population with guns) (The three most populous counties in order 96,101 permits in Wayne County (population 1.79m); 67,241 in Oakland County (1.22m), and 48,795 in Macomb County(0.847m)) June 1, 2016

Minnesota — 194,905 April 30, 2015 to 200,000 August 22, 2015, 19 percent of permit holders are women) to 210,647 November 30, 2015

West Virginia — 126,514 December 2013 to 147,801 Dec. 31, 2014

Montana — some new county numbers are available here.

Nebraska — 37,045 March 8, 2015 to 42,000 December 2015

New Mexico — 40,794 December 31, 2014 to 61,000 December 31, 2015

North Carolina — 484,630 June 10, 2015 to 478,334 in December 2015 (36,667 were for women)

North Dakota — 40,888 in December 31, 2013 to 40,872 December 31, 2015

Oklahoma — 217,724 March 2, 2015 to 238,300 January 23, 2016

South Carolina — 253,339 February 10, 2015 to 276,084 December 31, 2015

South Dakota — 81,222 in March 19, 2015 to 85,273 on December 31, 2015

Tennessee — 504,384 June 10, 2015 to 529,661 in January 4, 2016 (data over time for Tennessee is available here) 543,851 on March 2, 2016. 560,933 on June 1, 2016. More info here.

Texas — as of October, 2015, Texas had 922,197 active permits (see also WSJ), up from 841,500 in the spring. As of December 31, 2015 there were 937,419 active permits. As of April 30th they had 1,017,618 permit holders, about 5.3% of the adult population.

Utah — 603,144 Total Valid Permits as of March 31, 2015, 202,637 Permit Holders are Utah residents to 623,969 Total Valid Permits as of September 30, 2015, 208,640 Permit Holders are Utah residents. 632,276 total valid permits and 212,349 Utah residents on December 31, 2015

Virginia — 387,054 on March 16, 2015, 420,000 December 2015

Wisconsin — 253,116 May 2015 to just under 285,000 in January 2016, 300,000 on March 24, 2016.

Total in report 12,802,740, updated with just these 15 states the total is now 13,328,665. For many of these states this is just the change over 6 months.

Concealed handgun permits also affect the numbers that we have seen on NICS background checks in three ways: 1) the increasing number of permits being issued, 2) some states regularly recheck the concealed handgun permits using background checks (e.g., Kentucky does a background check on all permit holders every month to check to see if they have gotten into any problems), and 3) in some states you can sell a gun to someone with a concealed carry permit without doing a background check.