Hall County officials reported at least 50 times more people have applied for licenses to carry a gun in Georgia compared to this time last year. Last December’s single-digit number for this week of the month — two applications — inflates that number, but the increase in both sales and applications is stark. At Foxhole Gun and Archery on Jesse Jewell Parkway in Gainesville, shelves were bare and quarters close as a packed store of mostly men, many wearing camouflage, perused the store.