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NY State Handgun permits. update
TrinityScrimshaw
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My wife just had her interview with our local Sheriff's department for her handgun permit.
She turned it in in August-2016, so it took them 15 months to get around to it.
Now she has to get all four of the individuals who endorsed her permit application to sign three other pieces of paper that she must then get notarized.
Then she has to return it so that they can submit it to the county judge who has to sign it...[V]
I was hoping to have her pick out her new carry concealed handgun for Christmas, but I don't think that will happen this year....[:(!]
Update: This is a video & article that ran yesterday here where we live.
http://www.wwnytv.com/story/36956768/pistol-permit-applications-skyrocket-in-jefferson-county
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She turned it in in August-2016, so it took them 15 months to get around to it.
Now she has to get all four of the individuals who endorsed her permit application to sign three other pieces of paper that she must then get notarized.
Then she has to return it so that they can submit it to the county judge who has to sign it...[V]
I was hoping to have her pick out her new carry concealed handgun for Christmas, but I don't think that will happen this year....[:(!]
Update: This is a video & article that ran yesterday here where we live.
http://www.wwnytv.com/story/36956768/pistol-permit-applications-skyrocket-in-jefferson-county
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Comments
I know it takes some of the joy out of it.
[8D]
I remember when those of us on Long Island wished we lived there
not only because it was a beautiful place to live but also had a much
more relaxed attitude toward gun owners.
Either the Canadians or the down staters must have moved in and taken over.
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I understand that spending most of your life in and around New York makes a move to places like Tennessee or Kentucky seem pretty drastic, but there are closer states that do have limited freedom.
For example, Vermont does lean toward communism, but they have some personal freedoms, and it's close enough you could visit family from time to time.
It seems to be a mighty big solution for such a seemingly small problem, but I think it's worth thinking about. I know as much as I like Virginia I'd hate to leave, but if we continue too far on our current path I'll wave bye bye.
Don't you just love begging the government for your constitutional rights? [xx(]
+1 [B)]
Come January campus carry will be legal.
Oh, and no helmet laws for bikers.
Too old to live...too young to die...
As of right now the strong tie to NY that keeps us here is her job, and family.
I would quickly move South if I could. I have even checked real estate in TN & Texas, and there is no way I could afford what I have here in NY in those States.
There is no way I'll ever move farther East, but I would consider South again. Maybe some day, but I'll probably be in a walker by then.
The main reason she is getting her license is so that if something happens to me the Sheriff's department will not come & scoop up all my handguns. She will put all my handguns on her permit.
I want her to pick out her own handgun when she get's the license. I want her to go through the entire process of filling out the 4473, NICS check, and having to go back to the SHeriff's office with the States green card, and have the new gun put on her permit at an additional cost of $3.
As it is the first gun on the new permit is free, but each additional gun added will cost us another $3 each. This means I'm paying over $50 to get this all done, and on top of this the initial license fee alone was around $140 to start this process.
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Sucks to be a New Yorker.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Back when I was on the job in upstate New York, folks would hand out the forms expecting them to be turned in by the individual endorsers..
if they don't return them , the police dept. would not give you another form to replace the one(s) not turned in..
It could save you a lot of heartburn to hand carry them..
That part has already been done. Each endorser had to sign a separate form, and have it notarized. Then they were turned in with the application packet last year. Now they want another three forms signed by each endorser, which my wife must get notarised all over again.
MFI,
We live in Jefferson county near the St Lawrence county line. They had an article today in the local paper that said how the local Sheriff's department had been inundated with permit request. They said that they have received over 650 applications in the past 12 months.
Back in the 90's when I got my permit it took me 11 months, and I was an LEO at the time.
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Your right to keep and bear arms is not a constitutional right. It is a natural right. The 2nd amendment is suppose to be a control on government infringement of that right.
quote:Don't you just love begging the government for your constitutional rights? [xx(]
Your right to keep and bear arms is not a constitutional right. It is a natural right. The 2nd amendment is suppose to be a control on government infringement of that right.
I agree 110% and I didn't intend to imply any different.
Well put!!
I read in forums the hoops people in some states have to jump through to buy legally authorized firearms and my blood boils. How can this be allowed? Make fun of Arkansas all you want, there are virtually zero laws restricting the Second Amendment at the state level. No guns or magazines are banned, no damn waiting periods, no limits on ammunition, open carry if you wish and concealed carry permits on demand.
Come January campus carry will be legal.
Oh, and no helmet laws for bikers.
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I do feel for those people in NY. I know a number of people who left NY, CY, RI MA, and now live in the South. Might as well include CA & IL in mix.
They left based on taxes alone and the tax savings alone made the move pay for its self in one year. Something to consider.
Heard many stories of property taxes alone in the New England states greater than the principal and interest plus all utilities combined. A friend of mine who lived in NJ owns a house smaller than mine and he pays more property taxes in one month than I pay in a year.
Most of those fleeing have great advice: Don't ever vote DEMOCRAT.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
NY has damn few redeeming values.
Name just One.
I thought for 20 minutes, and couldn't.
Actually, some of you wouldn't believe it, but the hunting & fishing is great up here, and it doesn't cost an arm & a leg to hunt deer up here like it did when I lived in Texas. Deer hunting there is big business, and hunting rights in Texas are protected like mineral rights.
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