CCW holders of any state, I've got a question for you.

[WheelGunMom]

I shoot at a Las Vegas indoor range that will rent just about anything to just about anyone that walks in, including machine guns. This range and others in Vegas widely advertise this to the tourist trade. Sometimes it is downright scary in there with Joe Tourist Never-Shot-a-Gun-Before and his buddies with a machine gun in the lane on one side of you, and Joe Tourist Wanna-Be-GangBanger with his three girlfriends in tube tops and high heels spraying with every Glock in the place to show off what a badass he is, on the other side. Yikes! Hey -- “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” right?

So with apologies to pax and a request to please don’t flame me too badly, I gotta agree with the original poster – as a resident NV cc permit holder, I have zero problems with requiring a minimal qualification test for cc permits in the state where I live, regardless of the statistical data (especially for non-residents who come to Sin City just to play “badass”).

What’s goofy (and not justifiable at all) is that there appears to be no consistent minimal “test” given--it varies depending on where in the state you qualify, and even among instructors in the same county. And as one of the posters above noted, the costs attached to the NV permit seem unfairly high (don't know how much it costs the various localities in NV in manpower to issue the permits though).

Just my two cents . . . and I certainly don’t expect all (or even many) to agree . . .

P.S. For the NV residents on this board -- Assemblywoman Valerie Weber (R-Clark County) has proposed a bill draft (#36-294) that would enact the NRA-supported Emergency Powers Firearm Owners' Protection Act (prohibiting confiscation of legal guns if a state of emergency is enacted). There’s no telling yet if this will even ripen into a bill that will be addressed during our super-short, every-two-year legislative session, but it is nice to know that there is at least one legislator pushing for something positive for NV gun owners. (Hey – we’re not ALL “liberals morons” down here in Southern Nevada! )

 

[javacodeman]

My SC and NH permits give me a combined total of 30 states as well. I guess a lot of states recognize SC, so there is little to gain for me to get a FL permit myself. SC residents who hold a $20 NH permit only pick up RI with the $120 FL permit. I don't expect to be needing to carry in RI anytime soon.

I put together a map for myself to give me a visual. This will only be very beneficial to other SC residents:
Legend:
Red--These states are not "shall issue" states.
Blue--Washington says that it gives non-resident licenses, but only if you have a need.
Purple--These states will issue non-resident licenses, but you only pick up that state. Additionally, some require in person application.
Yellow--States that I picked up by getting the NH permit.
Green--States that recognize SC's permit.

edit: See below for correct graphic and change from RI to DE on state picked up with FL permit.

 

[Rumble]

Javacodeman, that's a cool little graphic. Gotta go dig mine up (I had one like that, but it's archived on some other computer).

However, just to nitpick: Delaware does not, as far as I know, issue non-resident licenses. Not that Delaware is necessarily a place you're going to be, but it should be red, I think, since it's not "shall issue."


Edit: Looking briefly at Delaware Code, I don't see anything that says a person applying for a license must be a Delaware resident. There's a somewhat ambiguous requirement regarding references from the "county in which the person resides," which I would reasonably assume means a county in Delaware, but hey...it's not specified. However, since it's "may issue," I think they would simply deny a non-resident.

 

[javacodeman]

Rumble,

You're right. My mistake.

Here's the corrected graphic:

Edit: I just figured out why I had DE colored differently. If I were to get FL's permit, that is the state that I would pick up, not RI. But it should still be red, since it isn't "shall issue."