I'm in the Twin Cities, I'm guessing the person you're responding to is in a first or second ring suburb (and I'm not dismissing their experience for that - ICE never left Minnesota, they're just operating in the suburbs now where it's harder to build a response against them so they're seeing some shit right now), but concealed carry permit requests are *way* up right now in the twin cities proper. People here are buying guns in response to the gestapo. I don't know anyone personally who has purchased a firearm, but I've seen the local news articles about the phenomenon.