Finally turned in my pistol permit app

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Finally got my butt in gear an turned in my application for my pistol permit. I actually have had it filled out since April, but with one thing and another, I never managed to get the thing turned in. I have to go get my fingerprints done on Mon, since for some reason my county farms that part out to an independent company (that is only open 1 day a week for some reason), but the place is right down the street from were I work, so I can go do it on my lunch break. So happy I finally got the application turned in. Just a matter of time before I can finaly own what I make for a living.
 
Hope your apps are processed without a problem. Know nothing of the process in NY. Fortunately live in IN where I paid ~$150 for a life-time conceal carry license.
 
Shouldn't be any issues. My county is pretty much "shall issue" now, and turns out that my procrastination got my app in when there was a minimum of backlog. The only hold up would be if my character references don't reply to the letters that they'll get, but I can always bug them about it in a daily basis until they reply ( all of them are practically, but not really, family)
 
wow you folks sure like punishment
here if you mail your application for a Concealed Carry Licence on a Monday you most likely will have it back in hand on Thursday or Friday of that same week. the system is state run not left to the counties or cities to foul up
CCL means concealed weapons like tazers,jacks,knuckles,knives,guns. please note that it isnt specifically handguns
in fact they have lowered the fee from $50 to $40 for a 5 year term

yet one more benefit of living where they make the cheese :)
 
guncheese said:
wow you folks sure like punishment
here if you mail your application for a Concealed Carry Licence on a Monday you most likely will have it back in hand on Thursday or Friday of that same week. the system is state run not left to the counties or cities to foul up
CCL means concealed weapons like tazers,jacks,knuckles,knives,guns. please note that it isnt specifically handguns
in fact they have lowered the fee from $50 to $40 for a 5 year term

yet one more benefit of living where they make the cheese :)
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It's just that us upstate new yorkers don't feel comfortable with any situation unless we have something to complain about. If things went smooth and easy, we just wouldn't know what to do with ourselves[emoji13]. Seriously though, there are worse setups than the one my county has, and there are better too. In one neighboring county, you have to show "good cause"(might not be the exact term they use, but it amounts to the same thing) and holds the application for a set amount of time before processing, as well as making it nearly impossible to get concealed carry, while another neighboring county has a setup like you described. In and out and you've got your unrestricted(concealed carry) permit in a week or two. My biggest gripe about my county's setup isn't that concealed carry is hard to get, but that I have to pay to take a class to get it. The price depends on who is providing the class, usually $150-200.
 
Expensive CCW classes are common even in some very gun friendly states. I suspect MO's relatively stringent requirement of 8 hrs ($100-$150 pricetag) is mostly for reciprocity reasons.
 
Here in VA, it's only $50 for a class in person or $30 for a class online. In person classed run from 3 hours to 8 depending on the company. It's only $50 to get your license.

A $100-$200 for a class plus the price of ammo + over $100 for the license application is crazy yo me. You just damn near paid the price of a new gun just to be given the "privilege" to carry one.
 
i love the way we do it here (training is just having passed a hunter safety training course at some time in your life
and filling out the form and mailing it to the state

that said....
the lack of a real training requirement hurts us badly in the reciprocity dept.
Minnesota doesnt honor out licences but we honor their permits
we are good in Iowa and Michigan but of course Illinois wont honor our licence
 
Praxidike said:
Here in VA, it's only $50 for a class in person or $30 for a class online. In person classed run from 3 hours to 8 depending on the company. It's only $50 to get your license.

A $100-$200 for a class plus the price of ammo + over $100 for the license application is crazy yo me. You just damn near paid the price of a new gun just to be given the "privilege" to carry one.
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the only reason it is costing me so much just to get my permit is the outsourcing of the fingerprinting(that alone is costing me $101.45). If my sheriff's office did it like some other counties do, it would apparently be far less expensive.
 
Bypass?
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Yep. Double. How did you know? ;)

Here in VA, it's only $50 for a class in person or $30 for a class online. In person classed run from 3 hours to 8 depending on the company. It's only $50 to get your license.

A $100-$200 for a class plus the price of ammo + over $100 for the license application is crazy yo me. You just damn near paid the price of a new gun just to be given the "privilege" to carry one.
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I agree but such is the price of rbka in some States such as mine. I was lucky in that that I was exempt from having to take the classroom portion which runs $75.00 and up.
 
Your lucky . Here in Albany Co. the wait is about 15 months and all permits are restricted. My 1911 was almost 1 1/2 yrs old before I could pick it up at the LGS. Amendments take up to 3 months. Good luck.
 
Come to Illinois! It's even better... $200-300 for a 16 hour class, you HAVE to have a FOID card to even own anything ($10 + time), and $150 just to apply, and about $60 or so for fingerprints if you want your permit *maybe* a little faster.

Don't forget to add in the cost of ammo for qualifying, and a pistol if you don't currently own one.

Now, if you live in NM, VA, HI, or SC, you can apply for a permit for $300, class fees of who knows what, and the rest. I don't know of many instructors outside the state of Illinois, especially since you have to have at least qualified and applied for your Illinois CCL to become an instructor, which means at the very least a trip to Illinois to take your 16 hours for at least one person.

If you live in ANY other state, your permit keeps you stuck in your car if you want to carry at all, and you cannot even apply for a permit, even if you were to take all the requisite training and qualify otherwise. They might as well not offer non-resident permits with a scheme like this.
 
Praxidike said:
Here in VA, it's only $50 for a class in person or $30 for a class online. In person classed run from 3 hours to 8 depending on the company. It's only $50 to get your license.
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FWIW, I've seen online classes for VA as low as $19.95 (not sure how bona fide though) and the NRA's own CHP class is $100 at the NRA's Fairfax VA HQ range.
 
"outsourcing of the fingerprinting"
finger printing?
wow you guys are all fouled up
ill keep my not so reciprocal reciprocity !!!!!

i bet you all have to have your guns listed on your "permit" as well

i prefer the word licence over permit (CCL vs CCP)
as a permit can be revoked without due process
a licence requires due process to be suspended or revoked

at least in the real world it does


ohh do you have to take a class before you can even buy a handgun?
that would suck
 
I lived in far upstate NY in a nearly non issue state. The presiding judge rejected unrestricted permits with boring regularity. The loophole is you can apply a permit in any county "you live, work, or worship in" so a few people I know started attending church in a neighboring county.

I encouraged one of my soldiers just today to turn down a job in NY because of all the firearms he would have to sell, purely from the magazine ban, if he moved north.
 
guncheese said:
"outsourcing of the fingerprinting"
i bet you all have to have your guns listed on your "permit" as well
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Just handguns. and the outsourcing of fingerprinting isn't a statewide policy. Just something some counties(like mine) do

guncheese said:
i prefer the word licence over permit (CCL vs CCP)
as a permit can be revoked without due process
a licence requires due process to be suspended or revoked
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Trying to revoke without due process is something that has been tried many times in NY, but it has never not ended up biting NYS in the butt, and hard at that. Your permit can be suspended if you are under investigation for something (something that isn't always done) or sometimes if someone places a restraining order against you, in which case they confiscate the handguns on the permit for the duration of the investigation(unless they are "shared", ie, they are also on another person's permit as well. In which case they are remanded to the custody of the other permit holder) If you are cleared after the investigation(or even if just not a felon after) your handguns are returned


guncheese said:
ohh do you have to take a class before you can even buy a handgun?
that would suck
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. No. I just have to take a mandatory(and free, IIRC) safety class provided by the sheriff's office within one year of issue or my permit will be voided. The concealed carry class is the one I have to pay for(because it isn't provided by the county) and is optional. I just can't carry legally in public without it (Ok to carry in the woods or my property). If I show proof of taking the course, they just issue me a new permit(no cost) and I am good to carry concealed anywhere in the state except NYC. Which is retarded, but I have no interest of ever going there again. And that is just how my county does things. Like I said, some counties just issue a unrestricted permit from the get go, no hoop jumping required.
 
good luck, I hear that getting a full ccw permit in even the best NY state counties is a gamble. here's hope for you....
 
PavePusher said:
Application? What is this 'application' you all keep talking about?

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Feel for ya.. But maybe you should vote out the areas of your state that control all of you.
Sort of like how california is thinking of becoming six states...

Good Luck.

Lateck,
 
"and the outsourcing of fingerprinting isn't a statewide policy. Just something some counties(like mine) do"

i guess i didnt get my thought across properly

FINGER PRINTING?!

the mere idea of that would cause me to run in terror
 
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