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Posted: 8/2/2015 12:57:39 AM EDT

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The afternoon of my 21st birthday.

Posted: 8/2/2015 12:58:43 AM EDT

[#2]

I am Utah the fall of 1994

Posted: 8/2/2015 1:00:44 AM EDT

[#3]

Got mine when I turned 21, 20 years ago. My wife(she was my gf at the time) got hers then too.

Posted: 8/2/2015 1:01:57 AM EDT

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The afternoon of my 21st birthday.

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Off topic, how does one get an arfcom nickname?

Posted: 8/2/2015 1:09:27 AM EDT

[#5]

I don't remember, 20 something I think. It was suggested that I get one or I might have to talk to the little black box. I hate talking to the little black box.

Posted: 8/2/2015 1:10:03 AM EDT

[#6]

5 yrs
I dragged my ass I'm ashamed

Rifle owner for 30

Posted: 8/2/2015 1:26:41 AM EDT

[#7]

Carried before I legally could because concealed is concealed and better to be judge by 12 than carried by 6

Posted: 8/2/2015 1:26:56 AM EDT

[#8]

Since 1999

Posted: 8/2/2015 1:43:47 AM EDT

[#9]

6 years. Got it because a job I worked at was in a sketchy area, and only carried when I was working there. After having to draw on a couple guys who were intent on robbing the store, I started carrying a lot more. Spending too much time on Arfcom got me into a daily carry habit, and now I carry wherever I can legally. Last time I left the house and didn't have a gun on me, I was heading out for a day of baseball and alcohol. More emphasis on the alcohol.

Posted: 8/2/2015 2:08:22 AM EDT

[#10]

Got my Florida permit right after I turned 21 and shortly before I PCS'd to key west. Been a bit more than 10 years now.

Posted: 8/2/2015 2:13:34 AM EDT

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The Utah law went into effect in the fall of 1994, which is right when I turned 21. I've had a Utah permit ever since then.

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Actually, it was in 1995 when shall issue was passed. The legislature passed it after the 1994 "wave" election swept the Democrats out of Congress and gave the Republicans a stranglehold on the Utah Legislature that they haven't relinquished since then.

Posted: 8/2/2015 2:14:11 AM EDT

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You forgot a field...

"Civilian Law Enforcement - Rule does not apply"

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That's under "don't have one because I don't need one".

Posted: 8/2/2015 2:15:46 AM EDT

[#13]

The poll results support Lott's research: it looks as if the majority of people here have gotten their permits in the last ten years.

Posted: 8/2/2015 2:22:18 AM EDT

[#14]

Eight years.

Posted: 8/2/2015 2:29:07 AM EDT

[#15]

I was the 911 permit issued in KY.

Posted: 8/2/2015 5:39:37 AM EDT

[#16]

since 1993

Posted: 8/2/2015 5:58:08 AM EDT

[#17]

28 years this November. (Florida rocks!)

Posted: 8/2/2015 6:26:27 AM EDT

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For the US, or for the Philippines?

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Poll fail...16-20 furriner here.

For the US, or for the Philippines?

For the Philippines.

Posted: 8/2/2015 6:28:32 AM EDT

[#19]

1978

Posted: 8/2/2015 6:36:01 AM EDT

[#20]

Suddenly got to wondering about mine. In VA it's good for 5 years and they DO NOT send you an expiration/renewal notice like they do for automobile and driver's licenses.

Mine's good till April 2016. Just gotta remember to keep checking it and get it renewed before it runs out.

Posted: 8/2/2015 7:05:44 AM EDT

[#21]

Since 1992

Posted: 8/2/2015 7:10:04 AM EDT

[#22]

Since 1987.

Posted: 8/2/2015 7:12:56 AM EDT

[#23]

20 years.

Posted: 8/2/2015 7:17:44 AM EDT

[#24]

Got mine in 2004 right after Ohio finally made it legal. Got my PA license shortly thereafter but I have recently let that one expire since it's no longer necessary due to statutory reciprocity. So 11 years, I guess.

Posted: 8/2/2015 8:02:18 AM EDT

[#25]

Got my carry up in NY around 30 years ago and my FL carry about 10 years ago.

Posted: 8/2/2015 8:12:45 AM EDT

[#26]

29 years. Full carry.

Posted: 8/2/2015 8:14:30 AM EDT

[#27]

This can be measured by how big your box of unwanted holsters is.

Posted: 8/2/2015 8:27:15 AM EDT

[#28]

I got mine in the mid-nineties, so I'm going to say twenty-years, more or less.

Posted: 8/2/2015 8:38:53 AM EDT

[#29]

Since 1975

Posted: 8/2/2015 8:40:04 AM EDT

[#30]

It'll be 1 year this September.

Posted: 8/2/2015 9:31:06 AM EDT

[#31]

I was lazy. I kept talking about getting it, but then I was doing armed security so I was OCing a gun when I was at work anyway

Then a few years later I was driving OTR, and you never know where you're gonna end up(NY, NJ, MA, IL, even made a delivery to the Cook County Jail once). I finally went in to the sheriff's office after I started driving gasoline tankers and the prices hit $4/gal. I was about to beat the shit out of some dumbass redneck making loud jokes about hijacking my truck for the fuel and decided I really oughta be packing. But hey, Longview IS the crackhead capital of Washington state - and he certainly wasn't the last suicidal idiot I ran into up there.

Posted: 8/2/2015 9:33:47 AM EDT

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For the Philippines.

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Poll fail...16-20 furriner here.

For the US, or for the Philippines?

For the Philippines.

Cool, didn't know you could get one there.

How hard is the process?

Posted: 8/2/2015 9:42:55 AM EDT

[#33]

Spring 2002

Posted: 8/2/2015 9:49:00 AM EDT

[#34]

Since 1996.

Posted: 8/2/2015 9:50:27 AM EDT

[#35]

I took the day after my 21st birthday off to apply for my concealed carry permit and I've had one ever since. 12 years now.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:00:07 AM EDT

[#36]

Charles Bronson signed my first CCW permit back in 1992.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:00:47 AM EDT

[#37]

Longer than some of you have been alive.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:01:13 AM EDT

[#38]

8 years, just picked up my renewed permit.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:09:52 AM EDT

[#39]

Since I hit 21

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:13:27 AM EDT

[#40]

13 years. I first got a VA and FL Non Resident at 21, now a TN.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:16:02 AM EDT

[#41]

Mine was issued September 12th, 2001.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:18:55 AM EDT

[#42]

Sometime in the 80's , Got it from Portland Maine when I was in the CG......had it ever since then, last 21 years has been NH

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:19:53 AM EDT

[#43]

Since 1997.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:23:13 AM EDT

[#44]

Since my 18th birthday...so that would be 7 years.

Dad gave me a remington rand 1911 in the morning, went to the PD to get my LTCH, and then bought an AK at a LGS. It was a good day.

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:23:27 AM EDT

[#45]

Permits are not issued here...

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:29:34 AM EDT

[#46]

I woke up early on my 21st birthday, showered and was at the sheriff's office when the door opened. I turned 43 last week. I remember the picture from that day...my hair was still wet so I looked like a greasy haired little punk. From there I went and bought my first handgun, a S&W 4006 and a Galco pancake holster with a thumb break. Obviously it was a pretty monumental day in my life because I remember it all like it was yesterday!

The lady that processed me said it would show up within 31 days and if it didn't show up to come back in. You may say that it still bothers me that I checked the mail with disappointment everyday for 3 weeks because it showed up on EXACTLY day 31.

I carried that 4006 religiously for about 3 months when I finally realized that it was a big heavy gun and a pain in the ass to lug around. It also didn't help that I had no idea what a good gun belt was. I quit carrying for a few months until I bought a Glock 23, a decent holster, and a stiff belt.

Sad to say I probably don't carry as often as I should but most of my time is spent either at work where it is forbidden (I know, concealed is concealed but I'm not willing to risk my job) or coaching youth sports where it would be too difficult to keep covered. On a funny side note, I was at one of my daughter's volleyball games and including myself there were 6 handguns in that gym within a 20' radius. Three of the people I knew and two were strangers that I spotted a gun bulge on one and tuckable holster clips on the other.

I've been amazed about how when I got my permit it was taboo to talk about and now everywhere I go people talk about it in the open like they just got a new puppy they are so proud about. Women at work talking about it across the lunchroom and such. Oh how times changed!

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:31:07 AM EDT

[#47]

3 years this Christmas

Posted: 8/2/2015 10:33:17 AM EDT

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I've been amazed about how when I got my permit it was taboo to talk about and now everywhere I go people talk about it in the open like they just got a new puppy they are so proud about. Women at work talking about it across the lunchroom and such. Oh how times changed!

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I've noticed that as well. Back in 1995 when the Legislature was arguing about relaxing the law, there were about 3,000 permittees in the state, with very few non-resident permits. Massive amounts of bed-wetting from the Media.

Now we're approaching 300,000 permits. My wife and several of her friends took the class together a couple of years ago, kind of like a "girl's night out" type of thing.