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https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-prem-bz-disney-guns-arrests-20210614-cxzlhbr4qzew3e4eazeh3ityk4-story.html
That link may or may not work at all, and if it does, it may be paywalled. I have recently (a few months ago) subscribed to the Sentinel, and their subscriber only reporting is quite good; I recommend it.
Len Testa of the Unofficial Guides is quotes a few times in the article, which is otherwise largely a summary of good local reporting: pulling official arrest and other records from 2020 and previous years and comparing them. I had seen this headline in the daily newsletter (and elsewhere) but it took me a couple days to get around to reading it to find out whether it was a “genuine” increase in guns in the parks or if it was an artifact of the increase in security screening that occurred with covid. Prior to covid, there was no security screening at Disney Springs, and much of the increase in arrests was at Disney Springs. The article also cites national sources to show that gun purchases / background checks for gun purchases rose substantially in 2020 as well.
I have been wondering if Disney Springs would ditch the screening once we got past Covid (or at least once we got to a point where Florida wasn’t going to do anything further about it); this article does not get into that aspect of it at all, however, my overall impression of the situation is that expecting Disney Springs to go back to the Before Times in terms of no security screening is probably delusional.
Forbes has a secondary article based largely off this article at:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/06/14/disney-world-spike-in-concealed-firearms-pandemic/
That link may or may not work at all, and if it does, it may be paywalled. I have recently (a few months ago) subscribed to the Sentinel, and their subscriber only reporting is quite good; I recommend it.
Len Testa of the Unofficial Guides is quotes a few times in the article, which is otherwise largely a summary of good local reporting: pulling official arrest and other records from 2020 and previous years and comparing them. I had seen this headline in the daily newsletter (and elsewhere) but it took me a couple days to get around to reading it to find out whether it was a “genuine” increase in guns in the parks or if it was an artifact of the increase in security screening that occurred with covid. Prior to covid, there was no security screening at Disney Springs, and much of the increase in arrests was at Disney Springs. The article also cites national sources to show that gun purchases / background checks for gun purchases rose substantially in 2020 as well.
I have been wondering if Disney Springs would ditch the screening once we got past Covid (or at least once we got to a point where Florida wasn’t going to do anything further about it); this article does not get into that aspect of it at all, however, my overall impression of the situation is that expecting Disney Springs to go back to the Before Times in terms of no security screening is probably delusional.
Forbes has a secondary article based largely off this article at:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2021/06/14/disney-world-spike-in-concealed-firearms-pandemic/