Posted on 01/29/2010 8:25:05 AM PST by marktwain
GROTON, CT - -(AmmoLand.com)- The CCDL, Inc. has taken action to help Connecticut citizens applying for gun permits!
Many issuing authorities in Connecticut have for years taken it upon themselves to ask for extra information from applicants for their permit to carry pistols and revolvers.
These intrusive bits of information include things such as 3 letters of recommendation that may need to be notarized, signed forms allowing the issuing authority to do financial credit checks, and some even request applicants to sign waivers so authorities can check your medical/mental health history records.
This extra information has never been required by any state statute.
Members of the CCDL have asked that the Board of Firearms Permit Examiners (BFPE) make a Declaratory Ruling on whether all of this extra information is needed when applying for a permit.
Many people applying for their permit are not aware of what is deemed necessary by the State of Connecticut. Some have supplied the extra information to get their permit; others have considered it an invasion of their privacy and decided against applying for their permit on principle, thus compromising their Second Amendment rights!
The official ruling from BFPE is that anything not specifically called out in the CT state statues is NOT necessary when applying for a permit. They will be sending a copy of their ruling to each and every issuing authority in Connecticut.
The people of this State, that are interested in getting their permits, need to know that they CANNOT be found unsuitable by any issuing authority, just because they did not supply the extra information at the time they apply for their carry permit.
The BFPE is a group made up of volunteers! The CCDL would like to thank them for the very long hours of service that they put in helping gun owners in this great State of ours!
A PDF file of the full ruling is available here: http://www.ycgg.org/pdfpages/bfpedeclrule.pdf Sincerely, Bennett Prescott Public Relations Coordinator Connecticut Citizens Defense League publicrelations@ccdl.us www.ccdl.us
The practice may still be anything the local poobahs want it to be.
I got denied a permit in Ct. I supplied all that stuff but forgot to list a driving “incident” that occurred 13 years ago.
Rhode Island is the problem. Of all the New England states, only RI simply blanket disapproves applications for LTCs.
Just another example of the scope of the anti-Constitutional efforts of those who rule us...The cancer starts at the WH and has spread to almost every hamlet in the Nation...Mini obamao’s everywhere you look...
My little area of CT is a bit of an anomaly. Most folks have guns whatever side of the street their politics lies on. No problem in my town with Carry License politburo types.
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