Indiana State Police are seeing a surge in gun permit requests amid the national gun-control debate. State Police are now seeing up to 4,000 permit requests each week, which is three times more than the same time last year.

Indiana residents make online gun permit applications to the State Police, but those applications are funneled to local police agencies for inspection, fingerprinting and background checks. Each of those applications must be reviewed and approved or rejected by the local police chief, town marshal or county sheriff.