Online and under 5 minutes. Other than not having to have a permit from the State to carry, I'm impressed at how quick and easy it was to complete the process.
Carry Permit Renewal
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BigBL87
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Must be nice.
Here in IL I submitted my renewal almost 9 months ago and still haven't even reviewed my application. By law they have 4 months to approve or deny, but it's Illinois so the government isn't restrained by such petty things as laws...
Here in IL I submitted my renewal almost 9 months ago and still haven't even reviewed my application. By law they have 4 months to approve or deny, but it's Illinois so the government isn't restrained by such petty things as laws...
1942bull
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My PA renewal took ten days. You have to go to the sheriff’s office with renewal app, pay the fee, and have a new photo take,. Once approved you have to pick up the permit. It’s a bit archaic but better than mant places v
tark
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I've always been sympathetic (kinda) to my neighbor's to the west, I've had my lifetime Indiana permit for nearly 20yrs.
.... legislation pending to do away with any license/permit at all.
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tark
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Thinking of moving to Iowa. They went Constitutional Carry on July 4th, last year.
Legionnaire
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Texas has gone constitutional carry, but I renewed my LTC anyway to maintain interstate reciprocity. Did it online. New license showed up a few days later.
Reloadron
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Here in Ohio they call it a CHL (Concealed Handgun License). They are issued by the Sherriff's Department by county. Last I heard they require a 12 hour course of instruction reduced from 16 hours. Once you take the course the current wait is 6 months to get in for the interview followed by weeks to get the license. Of course COVID and demand is to blame. Just maybe if law enforcement were allowed to do their jobs people would not want to have to take their own protection into their own hands. There is a strong push for constitutional carry which should pass. The current governor has no problem signing it into law. Till then for new applicants it's a train wreck.
Ron
RetiredUSNChief
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My last online one 5 years ago was quick and painless.
I just renewed mine online again a couple weeks ago, only this time it's under the new SC bill which allows open carry. One of the few good things about that bill is that there is now no charge. So I didn't have to pay fifty clams this time.
I have yet to see it in the mail, though. Should be soon.
I just renewed mine online again a couple weeks ago, only this time it's under the new SC bill which allows open carry. One of the few good things about that bill is that there is now no charge. So I didn't have to pay fifty clams this time.
I have yet to see it in the mail, though. Should be soon.
lemaymiami
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Here in Florida we renew every five years and it's actually handled by the state's Agricultural Department if memory serves. I'm perfectly satisfied with that arrangement and have never had a problem renewing. In my case, my first concealed permit was part of my retirement package - all those years ago...
i often wonder why it takes the law a couple of minutes during, say, a traffic stop to determine if a person has a criminal record (and no check is done to learn if a voter registrant is a prohibited felon or non citizen), yet it takes a bunch of states many months to ponder allowing a person to exercise an enumerated, inalienable, constitutional right. silly me, eh.
Jim Watson
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For many years, I had my schedules coordinated so my carry permit, car tag, and property tax came due the same month. I made one trip to the courthouse a year and paid them all. Now we have multi-year carry permits, so I got it in phase with my drivers license.
toivo
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In NY, we don't renew -- we "recertify," whatever that means, every five years. There's no fee, and you can do it online. The big pain is that you have to list every handgun you currently own -- for some of us, that can take a while ... 
What really bugs me is that until 2013, we didn't have to do this. Permits were for life. Then came Sandy Hook and Andrew Cuomo wanting to be President, so we ended up with the "SAFE" Act. Now Cuomo isn't even Governor anymore because he couldn't keep his hands off young ladies. But we've still got the "SAFE" Act.
What really bugs me is that until 2013, we didn't have to do this. Permits were for life. Then came Sandy Hook and Andrew Cuomo wanting to be President, so we ended up with the "SAFE" Act. Now Cuomo isn't even Governor anymore because he couldn't keep his hands off young ladies. But we've still got the "SAFE" Act.
Seven years, actually.
You can renew online – you’ll need to submit a new picture of yourself, ‘selfies’ are acceptable.
RetiredUSNChief
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If you really want to get on my nerves, turn something I got as a "lifetime" (no expiration date) guarantee into "now you gotta pay a price" deal.
And that's for anything.
A couple examples:
Once upon a time, Sams was running a deal for military people when I was a young Sailor back in the mid-80s. Lifetime memberships! So I joined up and paid my dues for it. Fast forward a couple years and suddenly their "lifetime membership" isn't any more and now I have to pay annual fees to keep my membership. I told them they could pack sand and I haven't had a membership there in over 30 years because of it. Matter of principle, no matter how much I could save by shopping there.
Once upon a time, about 4 decades prior to that, Indiana put out a solid deal to the WWII veterans following the end of the war. Lifetime hunting/fishing licenses. A few years after that, Indiana reneged on that deal. Dad was not happy with that at all, because he didn't take well to being shafted. We always had our hunting and fishing licenses growing up, but Dad had absolutely no patience with the State over anything related to hunting/fishing.
Anchorite
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Here in Alabama our legislature is considering doing away with the permits and going constitutional carry. That’s fine and all, but I’ll still need a permit if I travel into other states that honor an Alabama permit.
I’d rather see reciprocity from state to state than “Constitutional carry.”
I’d rather see reciprocity from state to state than “Constitutional carry.”
Reloadron
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You are not alone on that note. Here in Ohio I see constitutional carry happening soon. OK, well and fine but what about reciprocity in other states?
Ron
unclenunzie
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Last time I "renewed" it was in person before I moved to Texas from Florida. Nice to know I can renew my CWFL online with little to no hassle. Florida was my first license, not going to let it go
unclenunzie
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Everyone probably knows this here, but just to say a resident state license covers the federal school zone regs. That alone is a good reason (among many) to keep your home state license.
Ethan Verity
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Here in PA they require you to do it in person, and the sheriff's office is only open standard work hours. I have to take a half day off work to do it... which is annoying when you only get so much vacation time. Fortunately it's only every 5 years.
In South Dakota there is constitutional carry, a regular concealed carry permit ($10 for 5 years) which entails a trip to the sheriff's office and paperwork (no photo or prints) that is good for limited reciprocity, and an enhanced concealed carry permit which requires a class, live fire and receives reciprocity in more states. SD honors concealed carry permits from all states.
RetiredUSNChief
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Oh, dear Lord, don't get me started on this.
(Too late! BWAHAHAHA!)
I'm originally from Lafayette, Indiana. Way back in the early 80s when I got my first carry permit in Indiana, it (and renewals) were a royal pain in the keister.
You could ONLY do it one specific day of the week between the hours of like 1 and 2 in the afternoon. (I don't remember the specifics after 40 years or so.)
It wasn't a Monday or Friday, so you couldn't make a three day weekend out of it. It wasn't during, or close enough, to lunch to make it a lunch thing. It wasn't at the beginning or end of a work day so you couldn't shift your work hours a bit to go.
Then you had to pick up the paperwork to fill out which, despite the clearly written instructions on the paperwork which said "neatly print or type", the LPD's instructions specifically said "TYPED ONLY". So you couldn't fill out the paperwork right then and turn it in a few minutes later. You had to find a type writer (which in later renewals got increasingly more difficult to do), fill out the paperwork AND THEN COME BACK THE NEXT WEEK AT THE SAME INCONVENIENT TIME to turn it in. And pay a processing fee.
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!
So now you've at best managed to get two consecutive weeks of coming in at that most inconvenient time to get and turn in your application paperwork.
A week later you had to come back in AGAIN to pick up your paperwork (at the same inconvenient time), which you would then send off to the State Police. The paperwork consisted of all the paperwork you had already filled out plus a Lafayette Police Department form letter (tenth generation photocopy of, because why would THEN bother to generate one just for you) which basically said "We don't recommend approval because the crime rate doesn't justify blah, blah, blah...".
You then packed it all in an envelope, plus the state processing fee, and dropped it in the mail to the State Police.
Interestingly, the turnaround time from the State Police was pretty prompt, though I don't remember exactly how long. I want to say a week or two and that's it.
tominboise
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Here in Idaho, no CCW license is required to carry a concealed firearm. We also have a standard concealed weapons permit that requires fingerprints and a background check, and an enhanced license that requires the background check and about 8 hours of training. I recently renewed my enhanced license - the sheriff's office mailed me a form to fill out, which I did and sent back with a check. That was for the background check. Then when it was approved (about one week), I got an email notice to come in for a new picture. I got my new wallet card about a week after that.
There is no training requirements for the renewal of the enhanced license. But I am thinking of taking another class anyway, to keep fresh. The training is about 4 hours of classroom, on the laws, and about 4 hours on the range, shooting various targets at short range. Mostly to demonstrate safe gun handling and situational awareness, not really a speed or accuracy deal.
There is no training requirements for the renewal of the enhanced license. But I am thinking of taking another class anyway, to keep fresh. The training is about 4 hours of classroom, on the laws, and about 4 hours on the range, shooting various targets at short range. Mostly to demonstrate safe gun handling and situational awareness, not really a speed or accuracy deal.
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