Indiana begins issuing lifetime gun permits

WISH-TV ^ | 7/6/06

[LdSentinal]

INDIANAPOLIS A new state law has gone into effect allowing Indiana handgun owners to get lifetime licenses.

Gun owners now have the option to get lifetime permits instead of the current four-year licenses to carry the weapons.

About 287-thousand people in Indiana have gun permits, which cost 25 dollars for four years. Those who want lifetime licenses when their current permits expire will have to pay 100 dollars; those getting a license for the first time will be charged 125 dollars.

Applicants will still have to pass criminal background checks and allow their fingerprints to remain on file with police.

State police Captain Doug Shelton is head of the agency's records division. He says he doesn't think the lifetime permits will pose a threat to public safety because the state gun licensing database is constantly reviewed

[sinkspur]

This makes sense and I hope Texas adopts this approach.

I'm tempted to let mine lapse; it's silly to have to go through the same gun course every four years to renew the CCL.

[Jeff Head]

I'm glad they are doing this...but I already have a life-time permit, to whit:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

[Paleo Conservative]

You mean you can't take them to your grave?

[DoughtyOne]

Just stamp the birth certificates! That ought to do it.

[claptrap]

Id rather pay the price for getting caught with a loaded gun than the price for getting caught without a loaded gun.

[proudofthesouth]

I'd love to see this adopted in Alabama. My license is up for renewal this month. Here, the requirements for a concealed carry differs from county to county. Is it the same way in your state?

[sinkspur]

Here, the requirements for a concealed carry differs from county to county. Is it the same way in your state?

Yuk. No, in Texas the requirements are uniform statewide: we have to renew every four years, and it is a pain in the ass. Same course, same shooting tests, and another $40 to the state.

I'm seriously considering letting mine lapse (it's up next month) and taking my chances.

[kAcknor]

silly to have to go through the same gun course every four years

In Ohio they have It set that the training is good for six years, while the CHL card is good for four. At least we get one renewal without having to spend the money to take the same course again.

--- Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take a deep breath, and say this to yourself..."Baa." - LTC(RET) Dave Grossman

[Cobra64]

and allow their fingerprints to remain on file with police.

allow?

[Cobra64]

You don't need a permit to purchase a gun or a CCW?

[ReignOfError]

This makes sense and I hope Texas adopts this approach.

I know I'll be in the minority on this, but I'm not crazy about lifetime permits.

As with driver's licenses, I'd like to see periodic vision and competency tests; if you want to waive the fees, I couldn't care less. I don't think we're made any safer if people who can't see past the ends of their noses or hold their hands steady are packing.

[Jeff Head]

I don't need a permit to purchase a gun here in Idaho. They do a background check...but not if I am buying from a private individual.

They do have CCWs here...but my point is that it was never intended to have to get permission to buy, own, and bear arms in this country. The second amendment makes it clear that it is our right. If you have to get permission from someone to do so, it is no longer a right at all.

All of the good reasoning aside. The way it was meant to work in my estimation is that if you abuse that right you are severelly punished for it, to the point of incarceration or even death. That should be the deterrent in my mind, not abject governmental control. The former speaks to the concept of individual freedom, the latter speaks to governmental control which ultimately turn to tyrannyy, IMHO.

These are just my conceptual, ideological thoughts on the principles involved in the matter.

[Eaker]

I concur.

[Joe Brower]

I concur as well. Well considered and succinctly stated.

At this point in our nations history, our federal government has strayed so far from it's Constitutional moorings that it is truly adrift. Joe Sobran coined the term "Post-Constitutional America" to describe our current predicament in his essay, "How Tyranny Came to America". I take it to be quite apt.

Our federal government is today exactly the overbearing, bloated entity that our founding fathers knew and feared it would one day become. Between the "interstate commerce" and "general welfare" (aka "the anything goes") clauses, it is by and large a dead letter at this point, a "supreme law of the land" honored mostly in the breach.

Just my view from the saddle,

[Jeff Head]

I am shocked I tell you...utterly shocked. [/sarcasm]

God's best to you and yours bro!

[Jeff Head]

Also very well and succinctly stated.

[Dead Corpse]

No surprise, but the Founders pretty much agree with you.

Now if we can just restore our Republic...