Predictions of "wild west shootouts" prove to be bogus

2theadvocate.com: News - Pistol permits, 10 years later 05/01/05 10 years and no evidence of the wild west.

Legislators and former Gov. Mike Foster OK'd the law amidst predictions that more than 40,000 gun groupies would line up for permits in the first year alone -- instantaneously transforming the state into the wild, wild West.

Reality has proven far less dramatic.

Fewer permits, virtually no problems. Definitely no wild west shootouts.