Everyone in my immediate family has a permit. My Dad had one before me. Even my schoolteacher wife has one. It requires some paperwork, but its not insurmountable.
Yes, there are some judges in some counties that are bad to work with. It all comes down to the old "law-abiding citizen" idea. It also comes down to your attitude when you meet with the county administrator that accepts your permit.
It usually takes months to complete the process. One of the requirements is that a police officer do some of the investigating. When my 21 year old son was in the process he was at the University taking Criminal justice, and riding with a local cop on several days a week. As it turned out that very cop was an investigator. He took it to the judge and my son had his permit in 3 days!!!
When my wife applied, they saw she was a teacher and she got it in 3 weeks.
The revocation statement above is simply not true.
That you and your family members have P/P's is very nice. That's true of my family members as well.
I got my NYS P/P when I was 17 y/o. I'm 71 now.
It took 6mo back then to get it and it's still a yr+ to get one in this County. Some Countys take more time than that.
So it's nice to have a friendly Judge,,a nice local Cop and Chief o'Police and a Sheriff.
I know what that can be like 'cause we had that off and on in this locality as others have.
But politics can change and it every November it can change drasticly in the wrong direction.
Judges & Sheriffs who firmly believe that citizens should not have handguns are all over the State of NY. They have the final say in wether you get a P/P or not.
If they don't think there's a need or if it's a threat to public safety,,guess what,,you aren't getting a P/P no matter what career path your following.
..And as far as the NYS P/P being 'Revocable at any time"
(The revocation statement above is simply not true.)
it most certainly is revocable.
NYS is NOT a Shall Issue State (The State does NOT have to issue you a permit, and if they do they CAN revoke it for any reason)
and it expires when they revolk it so you have to sell or surrender your handguns at that point. If you want another permit you have to re-apply,,if they allow you too.
It's in the NYS Penal Law sect .400
It's also on the NYS P/P itself:
Info printed on the back of all my permit pages.
I also had a NYS Dealers License and a NYS Gunsmiths License (both needed for handguns in NYS from 1972 to 2020.
They are both (additional types of a ) NYS P/Ps.
Same paperwork, same application form, same pics, fingerprints, background checks, same character references needed, a check for a couple hundred to the DCJS,,,,and all this every 3 yrs,,,,,,every 3 yrs!,,,for each of them.
(Plus the FFL renewal every 3 yrs.
Now you would think that living in the same County as my NYSP/P (Carry Permit) that was issued when I was 17, and being former L/E, no record of any kind, and I never tried to burn my fingerprints off my digits with acid like Dillinger, that the Dealer and Gunsmith lic would be a snap to come thru every 3 yrs.
But nooooo. They took minimum 6mo each as well.
Make sure the renewal was in at least 6 mo before the expiration. Then hope the new lic's came before the old ones expired. Why?
Because if the new lic didn't come before the old ones expired, you'd get a letter telling you to turn any firearms (handguns) held by you as a Dealer or Gunsmith over to the Sheriff's Property Unit.
The new licenses early on were usually just in time. Then later in the 80's and 90's they came late but I never surrendered anything.
The licenses then got to be 3, 4 and even 6 mos late as a rule.
The last 3 lic cycles before I retired from it were so late that I was thinking about renewal at the time I finally got the new lic.
20 months late was the record IIRC.
That last one delayed an extra 2 weeks because a Judge could have signed it and sent it out to me, but instead let it set on her desk and went on a Vaca instead.
Character ref info for the background checks were so out of date that the Deputy doing them would call me back and complain that he couldn't contact some of my entrys.
Well, after a couple yrs of sitting on the paperwork, some of them moved,,one died,,stuff happens.
You are very blessed to have local oversee'rs that obviously support your 2A rights and respect the citizens of your locality.
Keep them and those like them in office. A change to the other direction can quickly make things a nightmare of the already stifling bureaucracy.
