At What Age Did You Get Your CHL?

[Stickjockey]

23

 

[romma]

39... Had no idea you could get one till I finally checked.

 

[AirForceShooter]

Got it as soon as I got to Florida.
I was 56.
Before that I was in NY. You figure it out

AFS

 

[Minator]

21 and 2 months

 

[roo_ster]

Twenty-one.

No funny looks or snickers, just otherhonest citizens taking their patrimony as Americans seriously.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

21 and a couple days for me. Didn't get any funny looks. Everyone is there for the same reason. The people in the class ranged from 21 to 60's.
I didn't start carrying daily until I was later in my 20's though. I wanted to get one so I could carry "just in case" until it dawned on me how stupid I'd feel if I needed and not had.

 

[Richmond]

37

I got mine 16 years ago - which means I was 37 at the time.

 

[Sisco]

52. Would have gotten one sooner but there was no CCW allowed here until just this month.

 

[redneckdan]

I took my class at 20 and 10 months. Applied at 21. I was definitely the youngest person in the class.

 

[benEzra]

I was 25 or 26, if I remember correctly. (Am now 36.)

 

[MrPeter]

My ID expires on my 21st birthday, a sunday, so I'll be renewing my drivers lisence that monday, and driving directly to the sherrifs office from the DMV.

No classes required in WA either!

 

[ZooFuzz]

CWP, age 49, Class was free from the club (Mid Carolina Rifle Club) I used to belong to. Paperwork and 50.00 to SLED and they make you wait the full 90 days.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Got mine as soon as Texas got the CHL. I was in my 50's.


My Wife and I carried (illegally) off and on from the early 1960's.
I've always believed it would be better to have to attend your trial, than have to attend your funeral.

 

[Soap]

20, gotta love Indiana.

Oh, and like El Tejon, I started carrying on private land very young: age 12.

 

[walking arsenal]

18 years

Because i could

 

[220_Swift]

I'm 29, and am still waiting for my state to come out of the stone-age.:banghead:

 

[old4x4]

I was 19 when I got it in NYS, but that was in 1986. I had to get one to even own a handgun. With that permit, I could carry it anyway I wanted...

 

[Eyesac]

Moved to NV from CA when I was 26, 3 months after I moved here I had it...

 

[Ala Dan]

21 is the requirement for most folk's here~!

 

[harvester of sorrow]

Gotta love FL $117 for CCW, $50 for a class.

Ugh, that's brutally expensive. If I recall correctly, Georgia cost $30 or $40 when I got mine in 1996. Even that's too much, though.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Had to wait til Michigan came to it's senses. That's a lot to ask for a state that contains Detroit. I was 45.

 

[gandog56]

I live in one of the only two states that don't allow it whatsoever.:banghead:

 

[aerod1]

I was 52 when Texas got a CHL law in 1996. I have had a CHL ever since. I just re-qualified Saturday at "Bullet Trap" in Plano, TX..
My wife was 49 and my daughter was 21.

 

[RH822]

I got mine at 21, I joined the Army at 17 so I to wait until I got back home. That was 22 years ago.

RH

 

[Mr. Cuts]

21 years old. No funny looks either. It's not cheap in michigan thats for sure... about $250 by the time I was done.