What state is easiest to get a CCW in?

[ruger270man]

I've heard some horror stories about $200 fees and classes and waiting periods and yada yada yada...

so what state is the easiest to get a CCW?

I'm in PA.. I paid $20, got the permit 4 days later, no class.

 

[sixandout]

I'm not sure but...

I heard for Vermont if you are over 18, and have a valid Vermont driver's license then you have your concealed carry permit. Nothing extra to do. Anyway know if this is true?

 

[Stickjockey]

Yup. Alaska's that way as well, as of July. Don't know about the "over 18" part, though.

 

[4v50 Gary]

You don't have to be a Vermonter to carry in Vermont. It's written in their state constitution that you have a right to keep and bear arms.

 

[joab]

I'm in PA.. I paid $20, got the permit 4 days later, no class.

Other than Vermont and Alaska that's the easiest I've ever heard of.

FL requires a very easy 4 hour class, $117 and about a 2 month turn around for a five year permit

 

[ruger270man]

thanks for the heads up.. so if I move, it should be to Alaska or Vermont..

what states on the east coast (more south) are gun-friendly?

WV, VA, NC, SC, GA ??

(florida is a little too far south)

 

[30 cal slob]

you can get a lot of reciprocity bang fer yer buck by getting VA and FL. There are hoops to jump through like fingerprints and filling out the app and getting photos and getting the apps notarized, but these are just that - hoops.

Personally, I think the easiest in the northeast (besides VT ) is New Hampshire.

PA would be a close second, were it not for the weird ritual of certain counties sending you a halfway completed permit for your signature, which you have to sign and then send back to get shrunk down and laminated. Weird process.

 

[GlenJ]

Here in VA it's $50 for the permit, $20 or $25 for the class (it's been a while). You get fingerprinted and they have to give you a yes or no answer in 45 days. If you get turned down you can go before a judge and argue your case. Before the state passed a shall issue law it went by city and in the anti gun city of Chesapeake you can figure out how that went.

 

[atblis]

Va

I don't remember it being 50 bucks (I think mine was $15). What "training" you need depends on the locality. Where I live, Hunter ED was good enough.

 

[stevelyn]

Alaska went to Vermont style carry Sept. 2004.

 

[Jim Watson]

Here in Alabama a permit is issued by the sheriff, $10 in my county, no "training" requirement, but they will hold you up for a while checking your character references and (lack of) criminal record. Annual renewal on the spot. Accepted in all adjoining states but only a few others just because our requirements are not as strict as theirs. No out of state permits.

 

[mtnbkr]

I'm in PA.. I paid $20, got the permit 4 days later, no class.

Heck, I'm in Va, paid my $20, and got my non-resident Pa permit in less than two weeks. If only DC and MD allowed CCW, I'd be set for all of my traveling...

Chris

 

[VARifleman]

More on VA permits...

It's 50 for an in-state permit, 100 for non-residents. Hunter safety will work, a bullseye pistol (or other competition) classification should work, or there are also CCW classes which vary in price. Mine was 75. Turn around is at maximum 45 days.

 

[Ric]

Indiana is 25 bucks and a month to process

 

[dakotasin]

walk in, give the sheriff your $10, and walk out w/ your permit that day. permit is good for 5 years.

 

[DelayedReaction]

Maryland is $117. More specifically, you have the opportunity to throw $117 at them because they'll never approve a CCW for you anyway.

 

[VTKFJoe]

Fingerprinting isn't required in VA anymore (if it ever was). The cost for a permit is $50 - good for 5 years.

 

[atblis]

In VA it is up to 50 bucks

Not necessarily $50. Mine was $15. It depends on the locality. The locality can also require a class (Montgomery County does not).

 

[fgr39]

New Hampshire. $10 a simple form and wait a couple days.

 

[joab]

I'm getting jealous here.
I was under the impression that Fla was one of the more gun friendly states

 

[Roadkill]

One more for Alabama, $10.00 and ten minutes, takes about the same to walk out the door at any gun store with any gun(s) and ammo you have the means to buy.

rk

 

[joab]

This is for concealed carry permits right?

 

[dakotasin]

that's what my post was for...

 

[Tom Servo]

Next to Vermont and Alaska, probably Georgia. $45 and no training requirement. Shall-issue, and the police are very gun-friendly. Only downer is that they can take as long as four months to send them out.

 

[dakotasin]

so, ga. costs $45 (is that per year, or...?) and can take up to 4 months - i don't see how that ranks it anywhere near 1 or 2 or even top 5... ie, sd takes as long as it takes you to walk into the sheriff's office and get 10 bucks out of your wallet (for 5 years)... shall issue means you walk out w/ the thing when you turn around. no training requirement, no waiting - not even a minute...

while i am not well versed w/ some other states, i'd imagine that wyoming's is easier to get along w/ than sd's, and probably montana, too...