While Missouri sorts out law, some get permits elsewhere, ( from PA)

[Desertdog]

For a $20 fee, a copy of a drivers license and a filled-out form, Missouri residents can get a Pennsylvania concealed weapons permit if they pass a criminal background check, according to McCloskey.

I wonder if this could work in other states.

While Missouri sorts out law, some get permits elsewhere

Posted 3/1/2004 from STLToday printer friendly version

"For the past several days, Vicky McCloskey, a secretary for the sheriff's department in Pennsylvania's Centre County, has been processing applications for concealed weapons permits from Missouri residents.
For a $20 fee, a copy of a drivers license and a filled-out form, Missouri residents can get a Pennsylvania concealed weapons permit if they pass a criminal background check, according to McCloskey.

'We've been sort of bombarded from Missouri,' McCloskey said in a telephone interview. 'They want a permit from our state.
One of the provisions of Missouri's new concealed weapons law allows people to carry hidden guns in Missouri if they have 'a valid permit or endorsement to carry concealed firearms issued by another state or political subdivision of another state.'

Some concealed weapons proponents in Missouri are applying for permits from other states in order to carry guns in Missouri while sheriffs and legal experts try to sort out the impact of a decision last week by the Missouri Supreme Court.

The court upheld the constitutionality of the state's concealed weapons law on Thursday, but found fault with its funding mechanism. Until the Legislature repairs that mechanism, Attorney General Jay Nixon has asked county sheriffs around the state to hold off issuing permits."

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[xenophon]

Well, good for Centre County, that's more money for them and less money for the idiot officials in Missouri who refuse to start the permit process or are delaying. If $20 is enough for PA I don't see why $100 isn't good enough for MO!!!

Here is more good stuff from the article that shows people from Missouri can indeed get a PA permit (or are at least issuing them ):
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"But you can send 20 bucks off to Pennsylvania and people can get a license without taking a safety course and not being oriented on the Missouri law and cheating sheriffs out of the money," Jamison said.

Jamison, who lives in the Kansas City suburb of Gladstone, has done just that. Two weeks ago he sent $20, a copy of his drivers license and a completed form to the sheriff's office in Bellefonte, Pa. He said he's yet to get his concealed weapons permit, but that he knew of others who had.

Jamison said a Missouri resident could do the same thing in Florida but that the fee was $117. Opponents of the Missouri law say the ability to carry a gun in Missouri with a license issued by another state is one of its glaring loopholes.

"We have issued a lot of them to Missouri," said McCloskey, the secretary in the Centre County sheriff's department. She said she did not know how many, but that demand had become so great that the turnaround time had become four weeks. "
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