Interesting question, and something I’ve been thinking a good deal about with HR822 on the horizon. How many gun permits do you have? Also how often do you use either your resident permit, or another permit out of state?
That second question is because New England is 100% messed up when it comes to Reciprocity. NO state honors any other state around here. I can’t legally carry in Rhode Island or Connecticut, and certainly not New York. Vermont I don’t need a permit for, but Maine and New Hampshire I also have a permit for.
I also got my Florida permit because I have family down there (plus my parents are eying property down there too). So I have 4 permits (But I won’t renew my New Hampshire permit because they honor my Florida, and Governor Lynch jacked the fee up to $100 from $20)
Still most states down South and out west will honor several neighboring states, so most of your travel you can cross state lines without worrying about your carry gun, so maybe others don’t have as many permits as I do.
So my number is 4, and I spend most of my time outside of Mass in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, so I carry out of state a good deal.
How many do you have?
Just Colorado. It is honored in any state that I want to visit, at least, and it was just fine for Montana when I was going to school up there, as well as for the whole road trip.
Probably ought to check on back east in case I ever want to visit my dad’s family, who are in Ohio, Maryland (not much hope there, probably), and Pennsylvania.
Three: CT, NC, and FL. I got CT when I lived there, and just kept it. I got the FL permit for reciprocity, and then got the NC permit when I moved here. I renewed my FL permit because it was easy, and if I ever move I’ll be able to keep it. NC is actually the “better” permit now, but they don’t issue non-resident.
Yeah NC is a good permit for the exact reason Mass, and Maine permits suck, they don’t want to honor other permits, so nobody honors them.
Meanwhile NC just pulled an Indiana (and I’m sure a few other states) that will honor ANY valid carry permit, no problems….and there aren’t any problems, hence why we should pass HR822
So far *knocks on desk*, I’ve only got the one – my resident permit for Virginia. This is mostly due to the fact that my travelling is currently restricted to areas within the state. Or the non-existant travelling since most of my family lives inside a 20 mile radius.
I’m looking at picking up a Florida and/or Utah non-resident permits for travel in other areas, but I’m not sure. Most of the places that I would go are covered by reciprocity agreements under my VA permit. My relatives in AL would just have to suffer not seeing me for a while longer. 🙂
If you have an address in Florida get the Resident permit there, its cheap and good just about everywhere…if not go Utah Non-res it beats out Florida by a few states.
0, which desperately needs to be remedied. But most states I would visit regularly recognize NM permits, so I hope to keep it at 1.
You should only need one, its a shame I need to jump through so many damn hoops just to visit family and friends who live relatively close.
Oregon and Washington as neither honors the other.
NY (resident) and PA (non-resident).
Weerd, you should double-check the laws in NH. They have reciprocity with Florida, yes, but they don’t accept non-resident permits (from anywhere) for reciprocity at all. I had my PA permit at the last two blogshoots, but it’s not valid up there for concealed carry. Hence my open carrying…
That’s why I don’t have a Non-Resident Florida permit! 🙂
I have four. I used to live in Pennsylvania. PA has no training requirement. In addition to all the PA LTCF holders going on shooting rampages because they have no training, that also means that PA doesn’t get a whole lot of reciprocity love. (what do you mean that you don’t hear about all the LTCF rampages? Isn’t that what the gun grabbers tell us will happen without specific, extensive, and reccurring training?)
Because I couldn’t go to Delaware or Ohio on my PA LTCF, I picked up a Florida CWL. That meant that when we were driving here to NC, I could keep my gun on me until I hit the MD border. Since I was already going to dodge the DE turnpike tax, stopping in Newark, DE was the obvious choice for a place to disarm for the trip through the People’s Republic of North DC. Also, my parents live in far western PA, and we always seem to end up in Cleveland whenever we visited, being able to carry there just made sense.
I ended up taking some training from a guy to satisfy my wife, and he signed off on my Utah training, so I got the Utah CFP. It was not really useful (it bought me Minnesota) but since I was able to, I figured, “why not?”
Then I moved to NC. South Carolina won’t accept a non-resident permit, so after about a year I managed to scrape together the spare cash to get the NC CHP. The NC CHP gives me everything that PA, or FL gave me, plus more. The UT still offers me Minnesota, but nothing else.
Going forward, I have no intention of renewing the FL CWL. It duplicates a bunch of places I already have. I will keep PA, because my parents live there, and it makes sense to be able to haul out the local license if you are there a lot. Utah is a quandry. If I could convince Minnesota and North Carolina to come to some sort of agreement, I’d drop Utah. There’s always the chance I’ll go to MN.
Of course, if those crafty Senators can graft HR822 onto some must pass legislation and force it down Obama’s throat, everything changes. It would be nice to be able to visit my wife’s friend in Connecticut without spending half the trip up disarmed. I haven’t been to Boston in a while. It wouldn’t be as cool as carrying in Central Park, but you’d think that any honest American would be allowed to carry a weapon at Lexington and Concord. You’d think that those who currently prohibit it would die of shame, but they are apparently immune.
Yep Massachusetts the birthplace and grave of American Liberty. BTW I was carrying my gun in Lexington today! 😉
BTW as for grafting HR822, I’m really starting to wonder if Zero would actually veto it if it got to his desk. Outside of Fast and Furious which he never hung his hat on, and will let Holder burn in hell for it, he’s been pretty stand-offish to his anti-gun former allies. Sure his two judges are quite possibly anti-gun…but they’re really just anti-freedom, and guns are just one of the many freedoms they’re on the record for hating.
We’ll see, it would certainly make the election a fucking MESS in favor of Obama if HR822 got his signature.
I certainly hope it happens, because I’ll likely be voting for him anyway in November so that will take some bitter out of the pill.
#1. Obama signing HR822 doesn’t stop him from being an anti-freedom dirtbag. It just proves that he’s looking to save his electoral skin.
#2. Rather than voting for Obama (or worse, Romney) you might consider voting for the Zucca/Emerson 2012 team.
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Barring any unforeseen scandal, they’ve got my vote!
0. Not changing any time soon – I live in the holy hell known as NJ.
yeah that part sucks. been there, done that.
Just one, the Utah Non-Res.
I have everything filled out for my VA Non-Res, but I’ve been too lazy to get fingerprinted so I can actually send it all in to them.
Just one. Indiana resident.
It covers all the places I want to go where I can get a permit (Tenn.) but not places that I can’t ever get a permit for (NY), so there’s not a real need to get another one.
HR822 would be mighty handy.
I can barely afford the 1 permit I have.
Thought about getting a couple of others but Utah changed to not allowing training to be taught out of state (I think) and very few others would give me too many more states that what Texas already does.
Used to have a WA and OR permit ( no reciprocity issues ).
I don’t need any in WY.
I might get a WY permit for adjacent states, and in case HR822 passes.
I have zero permits. Fortunately, I live in Arizona…. 😀
Zero
I live in Alaska and have no real desire to travel to the lower 48 (known as the US up here.)
If HR822 passes I might get one in case unforeseen events cause me the need to travel.
I am down to two. Used to be MA, NH, UT but NH decided not to renew me this go-round.
I *think* that gets me 33 states where I can carry a concealed handgun.
Just my Michigan resident permit but I rarely travel at all much less out of state plus i live way up north and our permit is honored a number of places I believe, now if I could get a carry permit for Canada I’d consider it since I live near the border and go there occasionally, of course I’m about as likely to start laying golden eggs as that is to happen.
PA and NH. But, Beard, man, NH doe not honor your FL permit, because it is a non-resident permit. NH only honors resident permits from other states.
That’s why I don’t have a Florida Non-Resident Permit! 🙂
AH, very slick, Mr. Snow Bird, very slick!
If your current NH permit’s going to make it to late next fall, then you could hold out for this:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/hb0536.html
It’s likely to pass. It will be vetoed. It will probably get a veto-override and become law immediately upon the veto-override’s passage, some time in the Fall.
Yeah I have my fingers crossed. My Florida permit is good there, but I certainly think New Hampshire is deserving of constitutional carry…they’re practically there now…
Oooh, I want that law here in NC!
First it would be nice to be able to CARRY in most of your state. I hate that many public buildings, and most restaurants are all gun free zones!
TX, just one. It’s valid everywhere I travel.
I just have my Texas CHL. I haven’t left this state in about a decade, so there’s no need for permission slips from other states.
Well its like five days food and water to leave Texas anyway!
I only have one, I couldn’t believe you could just mail away for a PA non-resident permit. This gets me every state touching my home state, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Illinois and some others.
Woo-Hoo we are #1 because all 49 of the other states are losers and do not know what they are doing, at least according to our more equal betters.
Rich
I’ve only got one permit, I’ve only carried in two states, It is nice being legal to carry in my car in Wisconsin now, and as a bonus it’s not a crime to have a fixed blade in my pocket there anymore.