Screw CT!

I got a nonresident carry license for Pennsylvania. It took nothing but filling out a short form and $26.
I received the license 11 days from the day I mailed the application.

Doesn't look like it has changed all that much since I got mine in Groton, CT in 1987. I do not remember the cost but it couldn't have been too much or I couldn't have afforded it.

Place a frog in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, frog legs.

I think we all know what the "frog" is.

I live in PA where the laws, IMO, are good, but that doesn't mean I do not feel for my brethren across the country.

But, do I understand correctly, that in CT you can't buy a handgun without having a carry license, or that your use of the gun is greatly restricted?

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Yep, that part is not so good. You are technically not supposed to handle a handgun in a gun store without having your permit. Private handgun sales here require permits as well. Long guns don't need any authorization, but handguns...'cause they a so much more dangerous...do. The laws don't make sense here, but take a look at MA laws, you'd s**t bricks if you had to follow those!

Hatterasguy-I don't know what kind of pro citizens rights groups there are in CT (something like GeorgiaCarry, VirginiaCitizensDefenseLeague or PennsylvaniaFirearmsOwnersAssoc. etc.) If you don't like how things are there I would suggest joining whatever group is available & getting involved to change them. If no group exists maybe you should see if you can find some other like minded folks to start one. When dealing with politicians numbers count.

On that note, there IS the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, http://ccdl.us/

Connecticuts biggest 2nd amendment group is the Coalition of CT Sportsman.

http://www.ctsportsmen.com/

Join!

So I don't have to give them the medical history form?

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Should not have to, I didn't. Milford should not be too bad as far as turn around time. I've heard of folks in New Haven taking several months for the town permit, but I understand the surrounding towns are pretty fast.

Virginia - (military) 50 bucks and fill out a notorized form, waited 22 days for the mailman. (non military) 50 bucks, demonstrate firearms competency by attending a course of instruction (which there are many to choose from even online classes) and a notorized form.

Just for the record if it takes more than 45 days the application is certified and considered a de facto permit for the next 90 days or until approval/disapproval.

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Yep, that part is not so good. You are technically not supposed to handle a handgun in a gun store without having your permit. Private handgun sales here require permits as well. Long guns don't need any authorization, but handguns...'cause they a so much more dangerous...do. The laws don't make sense here, but take a look at MA laws, you'd s**t bricks if you had to follow those!

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I shoot at Smith and Wesson in Springfield a lot so I am looking at a MA permit to be able to concealed carry up there legally. It seems to be easier to get one "for all lawful purposes" if you are from out of state rather than in state. Out of state you just are processed by the state police and have to take the requisite obscenely (10 hour) long class everyone in MA has to take. In state you have to deal with your local PD's ideas on your gun rights and since it is a may issue state, it sucks.

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I'm talking about Milford. Its a total PITA.

So I don't have to give them the medical history form? They did say it was requested not required.


Milford is tough, the cops really didn't even want to give me the application.


I'm just giving them a bare bones everything. The letters are super short and just say what they need to say, the resume is super short, etc.

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Just remember your rights, they cannot deny you for any reason that is not outlined by the state. If they do, you can appeal (which takes forever) and go before the civilian review board.

In CT you can't buy a handgun without having a carry license, or that your use of the gun is greatly restricted?

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There is a permit to purchase, but it doesn't make much sense. However, if you did get that, you could buy a gun and take it home, and admire it there. Can't take it anywhere else, except maybe to a dealer for repair or sale. You can use it defend your home, however. I suppose you could use fire it in range in your house, if you happened to have one. I really think this a relic of some past thinking, because it's petty strange.

And then there the pistol permit which is pretty much permission to own, transport, CCW, etc. You are either allowed to have have handgun and use it in any legal way, or not. That part makes sense to me.

There is a permit to purchase, but it doesn't make much sense. However, if you did get that, you could buy a gun and take it home, and admire it there. Can't take it anywhere else, except maybe to a dealer for repair or sale. You can use it defend your home, however. I suppose you could use fire it in range in your house, if you happened to have one. I really think this a relic of some past thinking, because it's petty strange.

And then there the pistol permit which is pretty much permission to own, transport, CCW, etc. You are either allowed to have have handgun and use it in any legal way, or not. That part makes sense to me.

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No, there is no permit to purchase. The permit is a carry permit, but you have to have that before you can purchase or transfer a handgun. The two permits comes in because you need a temporary permit to carry from your town which you then turn in to the state to get your permanent state issued carry permit. In the end there is only one permit for carry.

Actually, he's right, theres 'eligibility certificates' Heres the law on them: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2009/pub/Chap529.htm#Sec29-36f.htm

Ironically, it's not really any easier to get then the carry permit though...

CT is just another in a long list of State that I refuse to ever live in.

I think that it is probably a town thing.... I have a non-resident ct permit, which is issued by the state not the town, and the process was very standard and straight forward.

I got a nonresident carry license for Pennsylvania. It took nothing but filling out a short form and $26.
I received the license 11 days from the day I mailed the application.

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They must have been busy that week.... Big thumbs up for PA's non-resident permit process!

Yet another reason to be happy I moved from CT to Oklahoma. Don't get me wrong, there are many many things I really liked about CT but the fact that it is so friggin cold, my vote means nothing there, it is very expensive, and gun rights are questionable means CT is not my favorite place to live. Would I live there again? Probably but I love it here in Oklerhomer

So someone tell me why the NRA hasn't filed a lawsuit to get this stopped? IMO that's a blatant disregard of the Heller ruling.

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So someone tell me why the NRA hasn't filed a lawsuit to get this stopped? IMO that's a blatant disregard of the Heller ruling.

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Why don't you ask the NRA?

Try Indiana...

I have lived in Indiana for the last 33 years, or so. Have had a Personal Protection Permit since 1978. You would apply ever 4-5 years to renew. I believe it was a year ago this month (JAN.) Indiana has available Lifetime Personal Protection Permits. I got mine last April, on renewal, and will not have to fill out the paperwork/print cards again. Thanks to Gov. Mitch Daniels, for helping this to become law..

Washington State: go to store, buy gun, store runs BG check, wait 5 days if you don't have a CPL, take gun home.

To get a CPL: pay $55 and change to your local police agency, fill out card, get printed, wait a few days for card to come in mail.

I love Washington.

Nothing required in Oklahoma other than passing the NICS check. No permit of any kind required to purchase or own a gun. Concealed Carry does require a license but the process is easy, it just takes time. If you have a license in any other state you are good to go in OK. Reciprocity is a good thing.

I suggest you move to Vermont

Close to NYC (about 4 to 4 1/2 hours from Southern VT where I live.)
Albany is about an hour away.

NO PERMITS REQUIRED
NO FINGERPRINTS REQUIRED
NO EXTRA EXPENSES
NO CLASSES REQUIRED TO CARRY
(Hunter safety firearms course required for hunting license. Usually free)
NO MEDICAL FORMS, REFERENCES, POLICE APPROVAL REQUIRED


Just the standard purchase form and backround check.
(Usually takes less than 1/2 hour from the time I walk in 'till the time I walk out with a new toy. Longer if we get to talking guns, which is ALWAYS

Carry concealed or openly, FULLY loaded.

The few places where I can't carry, I usually don't go.
I seldom visit the local courthouse and State offices.
Leave it locked in the glovebox when I visit the Post Office.
Which is really annoying.
I carry many places where "they" say I shouldn't.
Like the hospital.
It's just a bulge in my pocket and what they don't know won't hurt them.