IT BECAME OBVIOUS PRETTY QUICKLY to John Wesley Anderson that there were not enough blue forms. Not by a long shot. Four weeks ago, Anderson, sheriff of peaceful El Paso County, in the shadow of Colorado's Pikes Peak, made good on a November campaign promise and adopted the most lenient standards in the state for the carrying of concealed weapons. Any citizen with a clean felony record who returned the blue form with an $85 check stood a decent chance of being allowed to carry a gun, without having to train in its use or even explain why he or she...
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