CCW Reciprocity sure is confusing

[Deplorable Me]

Concealed Carry Permit Reciprocity Maps - USA Carry

Apparently with a NY resident CCW permit I'm GTG in Michigan (destination for business). However NFG in PA. However with a non-resident PA permit I can travel thru PA but the non-resident PA permit is NFG in Michigan.

With a little luck I'll see my non-resident PA license by this weekend.

 

[Eddie Gunks]

Yeah? Try reading nys firearms law.....

 

[Deplorable Me]

Yeah? Try reading nys firearms law.....

Even more bizarre for you FFL folks.

 

[Snappo]

Concealed Carry Permit Reciprocity Maps - USA Carry

Apparently with a NY resident CCW permit I'm GTG in Michigan (destination for business). However NFG in PA. However with a non-resident PA permit I can travel thru PA but the non-resident PA permit is NFG in Michigan.

With a little luck I'll see my non-resident PA license by this weekend.

I'm kinda pondering out of state Utah. I have in-state NY, a lapsed in-state CT and GA, and am thinking next time I am in CT I should probably go to the State PD barracks and get the application for out-of-state CT. I think I can do GA by ordering the form over the phone (CT requires in-person). Between those 3 I should be fairly well covered. Trump Train really needs to force the issue with a shall-issue federal permit. All these friggin reciprocity laws are confusing.

 

[Snappo]

Concealed Carry Permit Reciprocity Maps - USA Carry

Apparently with a NY resident CCW permit I'm GTG in Michigan (destination for business). However NFG in PA. However with a non-resident PA permit I can travel thru PA but the non-resident PA permit is NFG in Michigan.

With a little luck I'll see my non-resident PA license by this weekend.

Hey DM - question. I just called CT and they will send me the renewal form; but can you tell me what county you did your PA permit in, and if you got the form via mail? GA said no to non-resident; but maybe I should do MA?

 

[Marine Cpl]

I'm kinda pondering out of state Utah. I have in-state NY, a lapsed in-state CT and GA, and am thinking next time I am in CT I should probably go to the State PD barracks and get the application for out-of-state CT. I think I can do GA by ordering the form over the phone (CT requires in-person). Between those 3 I should be fairly well covered. Trump Train really needs to force the issue with a shall-issue federal permit. All these friggin reciprocity laws are confusing.

What do you mean by, "instate"? CT does not require to meet in person. Florida gives you all the states Utah gives you. Getting a Utah doesn't give you Florida.

 

[71velle]

Concealed Carry Permit Reciprocity Maps - USA Carry

Apparently with a NY resident CCW permit I'm GTG in Michigan (destination for business). However NFG in PA. However with a non-resident PA permit I can travel thru PA but the non-resident PA permit is NFG in Michigan.

With a little luck I'll see my non-resident PA license by this weekend.

Where did you read that the PA nonresident is not good in Michigan?

 

[Deplorable Me]

Punch in PA as a non resident minus, NY, solo. It flags as red for Michigan. Then punch up NY as resident, solo. NY permit blue, GTG in Michigan. The only reason to get a PA non resident is for driving thru PA. NY ccw, GTG in Ohio as I read the map.

 

[71velle]

Yes that is why I just got PA, I guess it gives us WV too.

 

[Eddie Gunks]

but can you tell me what county you did your PA permit in, and if you got the form via mail?

I got mine from lakawanna county. Walking, walked out with permit.

I believe No mail for pa permits

 

[Snappo]

I'm getting sticker shock from MA non resident. $100 a year and you have to go down there in person. ;-(

 

[Deplorable Me]

UPDATE: Drove to Erie PA last Wednesday and filed. Sheriff said it would take 10 to 14 days.

Got it in the mail today! 5 days including the weekend.

 

[Snappo]

UPDATE: Drove to Erie PA last Wednesday and filed. Sheriff said it would take 10 to 14 days.

Got it in the mail today! 5 days including the weekend.

Ugh. 300 miles each way. That's painful. ;-(

 

[Bob]

UPDATE: Drove to Erie PA last Wednesday and filed. Sheriff said it would take 10 to 14 days.

Got it in the mail today! 5 days including the weekend.

I went to Erie about a year ago and got mine. I walked out with it that day. Grand total of 28 minutes in the parking garage.

 

[Deplorable Me]

I went to Erie about a year ago and got mine. I walked out with it that day. Grand total of 28 minutes in the parking garage.

I literally found meter-parking at the street right in front of the courthouse.

The guy in line before me was a cranky, smart mouth, know it all grumpy son-of-a-birch old man with an attitude problem. He dragged out his time at the counter with argumentative questions and confrontation, maybe 15 minutes wasted. (The guy couldn't follow instructions on the form.) The (cute) girl behind the counter was polite, tolerant and professional in dealing with him. Thank God he was a PA resident. She onced over my application, took a copy of my drivers license in addition to my NY CCW (already copied). I think it took me maybe a whole 2 minutes.

 

[HighlandLofts]

I got a bunch of out of State permits last summer, took the class and got Florida, Utah, Arizona and Oregon. already had Pennsylvania from the year before. At $100 or less for a four or five year permit it's well worth the cost to travel in a whole bunch of different states with out worry. They come out to $20, $25 a year each. Pennsylvania was the best buy, I got mine in Scranton when visiting my kids in new yorkistan.

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

Honest question. Is anyone actually going to all these other states to actually need to have all the reciprocity? Or is it just like the cool thing to do just in case? Seems like a big waste of time and money unless you're actually going to all these places.

 

[Bob]

I go to Pennsylvania several times a year to visit friends. My other half is in New Hampshire near the Maine border, so I go to both Maine and New Hampshire frequently. I have to maintain a Utah permit, as I'm a Utah instructor. I picked up Arizona for Nevada, as I go to Vegas once in awhile.

Florida is the only one that I have "just because" and I probably won't renew that one when it comes due.

 

[Bob]

I'm getting sticker shock from MA non resident. $100 a year and you have to go down there in person. ;-(

Massachusetts now only requires you to appear in person once every 5-6 years. All of the years in between can be done via mail. It's still $100 a year though.

 

[Marine Cpl]

I only get for the states I actually visit. Florida covers a lot of them. I drive down to Florida once a year.

PA and CT I get because I go there too.

 

[prambo]

I don't give a rat's behind about any of it. Primarily because I never go much of anywhere.

 

[71velle]

At Potter it was 20 minutes out the door with permit in hand.

 

[Deplorable Me]

Honest question. Is anyone actually going to all these other states to actually need to have all the reciprocity? Or is it just like the cool thing to do just in case? Seems like a big waste of time and money unless you're actually going to all these places.

I travel w/my wife for business, we drive. Michigan and North Carolina currently but PA for business in the future. We stay over in WV a lot. In the future TX, LA and VA. Looks like all the connecting states are covered. I'm covered, the wife is waiting on her original NY permit.

 

[Snappo]

Massachusetts now only requires you to appear in person once every 5-6 years. All of the years in between can be done via mail. It's still $100 a year though.

I'm kind of thinking with CT and NY I should be fairly solid (GA said they won't do non-resident); but I think maybe I should drive up to MA and do that once. I hate that NY and CT doesn't solve MA, PA, or NJ.