NY State permit

[Boox]

New York is a wonderful place to live. Especially if you are a major manufacturer from Canada and want to bleed a border county of it's incentives to new business. Then you leave as soon as the government money is gone.
But more to the point, I first applied for a CCW in the '80's here in St. Lawrence county and due to the fact that I was involved in a divorce proceeding at the time it was not granted. OK makes sense I guess. I reapplied just before I was 60 and considering early retirement. 5 months later I was carrying. No NRA pistol course, no extra hoops to jump through, just fingerprints, FBI check and good to go. I now have Utah and Fl permits also. I still can't carry concealed in MD, where one of my sons live. But as has been stated NY lets the counties make the decisions and generally it happens in less than 6 months. You are subject to the licensing authority's whims, so you make not get unrestricted, though you can seek an amendment in due course. Recently a friend who is a retire LEO, who can own firearms as an LEO converted to licensed and his recently issued permit is restricted to "hunting and other outdoor activities" for now. Mine now has no restrictions.

 

[Roadtrash]

Back when CC permits were required here in AZ, not required anymore, we scheduled a class and the instructor came out to us. We had 6 hours of class mostly covering safety and the law covering CC then we had a practical proving we knew how to load and safely fire the gun. I think we had to score 80% to qualify but I could be wrong there. Our instructor took our fingerprints, we filled out paperwork gave it to the instructor with $60 for the class and another $20 to process the paperwork and then went home to wait for the permit to come in the mail.

It took a couple of months to get them back for some of us and just a couple of weeks for others. We all had good clean backgrounds so that wasn't an issue.

I keep my permit even though it is no longer required out here so I can travel into other states that recognize the AZ permit and also it makes the background check quicker and easier when buying another gun. They really smile when they ask for two forms of ID and you hand them your DL and your CCW permit.

All in all it's pretty easy out here. I can't imagine the hassles you folks in NY have to go through.

Just my two cents.