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Slow pace for permits riles gun owners

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited January 2002 in General Discussion
Slow pace for permits riles gun ownersTown Hall meeting will discuss how fast approvals are issuedBy Craig Garrett / The Detroit NewsWhat's next * The Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners meets at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Livonia library, just east of Farmington Road on Five Mile. * Speakers include Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano, members of the Livonia City Council and Ross Dykman, the coalition's executive director. * The Wayne County Gun Board meets Feb. 12 at the downtown campus of Wayne County Community College. The hearings start at 9 a.m. and the public is welcome. Comment on this storySend this story to a friendGet Home Delivery LIVONIA -- Wayne County gun owners are planning a town hall meeting Wednesday to talk about how the state's new concealed weapons law is faring with residents. Event organizers want input from gun owners on how fast concealed permits are being issued. Police and local officials also have the opportunity to sound off. Wayne County is "having a problem with bottlenecks" at the county's clerk's office, the agency that issues permit applications and processes the concealed handgun permits, said Mark Levis, a spokesman for the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners, one of the groups that led the campaign in Michigan to change the concealed handgun laws. "But, largely, the county has been pretty fair." The issue of whether to allow qualified state gun owners to carry a concealed handgun seems to have quieted after a near frenzy of protest from both sides about the time laws changed in favor of the gun owners last summer. Under the new state law, which began last July, county authorities were to issue a concealed handgun permit to anyone 21 and older, and who had no history of felonies or mental illness. The rules until then mostly allowed only those with a demonstrated need -- merchants, those who carried a lot of money or precious items like jewelry -- to get the concealment permit. Since the rules changed six months ago, the three-member Wayne County Gun Board has issued about 1,700 handgun permits. In an average year, Wayne County issued about 1,000 permits. Levis insists that Wayne County could have issued far more permits, but the process of fingerprinting and conducting criminal background checks has crawled along. Sheriff Robert Ficano, who plans to speak at Wednesday's town hall gathering, said his office had tried to keep up the processing pace, but that the lack of staff had stifled those efforts. http://www.detnews.com/2002/wayne/0201/11/d03-387850.htm Craig Garrett can be reached at (313) 561-9646 or cgarrett@ detnews.com
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    This is an interesting topic. I'll be at this gun board meeting and I'll see what they have to say. I totally agree, six months or more is an unreasonably long wait for application approval. I applied for my updated personal CCW permit with Wayne County (my previous one was for under my business' name) and I have been waiting since October 13th with still no reply. Hopefully, they'll allow the public to make comments.Thanks for the post Josey!!G36
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