Utah's Concealed Carry Permits Popular Around US

Tens of thousands of gun owners from around the country are taking advantage of Utah's concealed firearm permits each year often taking a required class given by instructors licensed by Utah but who live in other states.

About two-thirds of the nearly 577,000 permits Utah has issued in the last two decades have gone to residents from other states. More than 81,000 out-of-staters obtained permits from Utah in fiscal year 2014, accounting for 80 percent of the cards issued, shows a new state report issued this week.

Utah's permit is attractive to out-of-state residents because it's recognized in 35 states and allows them to travel more widely with it, said Rep. Curt Oda, a Republican lawmaker from Clearfield and a concealed-carry permit instructor.

I, Mrs. Child (aka "She Who Must Be Obeyed"), our kid, my brother, my step sister, several of my wife's female friends all have CCDW. And several more of her friends are in the process of getting them.
Note that in Kentucky it is against the law for the state to give its list of licensees to the feds or anyone else. But my instructor said 4 years ago that the feds were trying to get the names from the state. The federales don't give a damn about the law.

Our sheriff's office is handing out permits like it's going out of style, they are buried. Kentucky legislature made a requirement that the permit process had to be completed in less than 90 days. The wife's took less than 45 days after she took the class.

My gut feeling is that CCDW and gun ownership in general is snowballing.

Remember this, believe it, and be willing to live it:
"If every Jewish and anti-nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic."

- Aaron Zelman / March 4, 1946 – December 21, 2010,
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

http://jpfo.org/

You said: “That leaves no chance for a CA resident to obtain a Utah permit. Unless you are connected, your chance of getting a permit in CA is slight less than Zero.”

San Bernardino county is processing about 80 to 90 per month. Kern county is similar. Some counties in CA are almost SHALL issue. LA county... no so much.

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