Watch: DC Concealed Carry Permits sought in response to crime increase, firearm instructor says

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Taking up arms legally is how different firearm instructors say people have been responding to not just last year’s pandemic and national racial injustice protests, but now also to D.C.’s rise in homicides.

FOX 5 sat in on part two of an area instructor’s Friday DC Concealed Carry Permit class. John Ayala, who owns ARCHANGEL Security and Training and holds a D.C. Police certification to teach this course, rents a space at the Maryland Small Arms Range in Upper Marlboro to hit the range with students.

You could see some of his students shaking as they loaded the gun and fired for the first time.