well there's been a surge in the number of New Jersey gun owners who want to carry a firearm in public according to new data first reported by New Jersey monitor the state saw applications for permits sore in the two years since the landmark US Supreme Court Bruen decision that overturned National gun restrictions declaring the ability to carry a pistol in public is a constitutional right well since then more than 41,000 gun owners have applied for Carry Permits that's 26 times more than the roughly 1,500 people who applied for permits in the two years before bruan gun rights Advocates say this spike is just a fraction of what's to come as residents wait for the legal fight over New Jersey state restrictions to finish playing out a public database launched by the Attorney General's office gives a clearer look at just who is applying and it shows the majority nearly 34,000 were white men with residents in Ocean Monmouth and Bergen counties racking up the most applications on file [Music]