Posted on 02/27/2014 7:08:08 AM PST by rellimpank
Recently, I completed the classroom portion of the new Illinois concealed carry licensingrequirement. I then traveled to the firing range with my classmates and passed the live-fire training by destroying a practice target with 30 rounds of 9 mm ammunition fired from three distances. Having had my fingerprints and a recent picture of myself scanned into the Illinois State Police database, completing the online registration form and paying my fee, I submitted my application. In 90 days or less I expect to receive my concealed carry permit and will be able to legally carry a loaded firearm on my person when I leave my house. Will I actually carry my gun when I go to the coffee shop or grocery store or wherever? Maybe, maybe not. You'll never know and that is the point.
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—and , amusing to me anyway, sits right there below Wisconsin (the next to last) which now has 200,000 concealed weapons permittees with almost zero firearms offenses-—but I have not seen one word about this in the two Chicago garbage wraps-—
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Took me five minutes in the county sheriff’s office.
Veterans need no courses. (Iowa) Can also open carry.
Dodge City on a Saturday night was safer than Chicago....
Yup.....over and over and over and...
Wow. In Texas my son-in-law passed and submitted the week before Thanksgiving. Still hasn’t got it. The state website still doesn’t even show that they are processing yet. He called 2 weeks ago and they blame the delay on the lowering of classroom hours to an increase in takers. Still the state says 8 weeks max on the issue. There is no excuse for this.
I submit this question to the assembled multitude: Can you find any group of people more polite than the crowd at a gun show?
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Why bother?
Wisconsin does not require fingerprints or a picture.
I think all states should go with Constitutional carry, but shall issue is a step in the right direction.
At least in Texas you can still carry in the car loaded without the license as long as it is concealed. You just can’t carry on your person (and get caught).
We had a person fail their shooting qualification when I went through my first CFL class. It was a person who brought a newly purchased handgun she had never fired in a caliber she had never fired.
TX Shooting Qualification (using standard B27 targets)
3 yards, 20 rounds
1 shot, 2 seconds, 5 times
2 shots, 3 seconds, 5 times
5 shots, 10 seconds, 1 time
7 yards, 20 rounds
5 shots, 10 seconds, 1 time
2 shots, 4 seconds, 1 time
3 shots, 6 seconds, 1 time
1 shot, 3 seconds, 5 times
5 shots, 15 seconds, 1 time
15 yards, 10 rounds
2 shots, 6 seconds, 1 time
3 shots, 9 seconds, 1 time
5 shots, 15 seconds, 1 time
“At least in Texas you can still carry in the car loaded without the license as long as it is concealed. You just can’t carry on your person (and get caught).”
Yeah, that’s what I do. I’ve never gone and gotten the full blown CHL because of that reason.
Went to one last Saturday. Everyone was polite, but the police were there to hold concealed weapons while you were in the building. Seems kind of strange.
Every state should follow Vermont when it comes to gun laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state
Yeah, I kept getting a pop-up and then it would bounce me to their home page. Screw that.
I had two in my renewal class that failed the shooting portion.
Everything I have read over the years says 10-20 feet is the average range. But if you sit back and think about it, most would actually occur at 2 feet or less where any type of physical struggle is taking place(i.e. rape, car jacking, robbery, etc.). The only way I’m firing at the 20 ft. range is if I’m cornered or in my own home. Otherwise, I’m high tailing it out of there.
Iowa was 25 yards back when I took it. A lot of people failed the first time.
I agree with you. I sounds from the responses I have seen it varies where you are. Here in the Gay State, nobody I know in the business has ever seen anybody fail.
The mods are just deleting posts they don’t agree with anyway.
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