Posted: 10/9/2024 2:14:34 PM EDT
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I had a Ga CCW for about 15 years. Moved to Montana which doesnt need a CCW to carry. It is basicly a constitutional carry state. I would like to still have a CCW for when i travel. I could get the MT CCW but it doenst appear to have good retropocity. What states have the best and easiest non resident ccw? Edit, actually i looked and the MT CCW isnt bad in other states. I must have looked on the wrong web pages. I will look into getting a MT CCW. But it does seem like sometimes it ia trickier in theae constitutional carry states to find info aboit the CCW becauae basicly no one gets one. You dont need it. It alao looks like Idaho might be constitutional which is one of the places i travel a lot for fishing. |
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Utah is good, but I think you need to have CCW permit in your home state first. I actually got my Utah permit so that I could bring a firearm on my trip to Montana. Unfortunately, the trip got cancelled due to covid... 
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Want to bet a case of PMAGS on it?
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Originally Posted By ar15-joe: Utah is good, but I think you need to have CCW permit in your home state first. I actually got my Utah permit so that I could bring a firearm on my trip to Montana. Unfortunately, the trip got cancelled due to covid... Well its good to have one anyway. After having one for the last 15 years i dont even think about having a firearm on my person concealed. I am kind of afraid without one i could get in trouble by mistake. For example i always carry in a chest rig while fly fishing. Open carry not concealed. But as weather changes i might put on a jacket. I get back to my truck and zip up the jacket and now it is concealed. In Montana it doesnt matter and is fine. But in another state that could land me in jail without a ccw. |
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Best bet is to go to handgun law.us and look at the reciprocity maps. To cover the largest number of states possible you usually need a couple permits from different states I now live in Arizona, and like Montana no permit is required for open or concealed carry, but having one has numerous advantages: It allows carry into places that serve alcohol ( under AZ constitutional carry, you can’t carry into a place that serves alcohol regardless if you are drinking or not - with the permit, you can’t drink though) Eliminates a nice check when purchasing guns And to your reciprocity question, allows carry in almost every state except what I refer to as the “ usual suspects” ( CA WA OR NYNJ MA CT IL , maybe a few others) You also have to look carefully as some states only recognize resident permits for reciprocity and not nonresident permits. For my purposes with an AZ resident permit, I am good from the CA/AZ border east throughout the south Midwest and middle Atlantic all the way to the PA/NY border. Ironically as a former NY resident for decades there is essentially no way for me to carry or possess a handgun in NY even though I formally held a NY permit for decades |
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https://www.usacarry.com/concealed-carry-permit-reciprocity-maps/ The maps here are pretty good and especially for a combination of permits. One of the issues is that there are some states that do not recognize non-resident permits. The map above takes that into account. When talking about non-resident permits the most common that have a lot of coverage are Arizona, Utah, and Florida. Idaho's "Enhanced" permit is good but you have to go there to get it. There are only a handful of states that are in play between the four. Washington is a pain, Utah would get you WA. |
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CO, MI, OR - Please lobby your legislators to end discrimination against non-resident CCW permit holders
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I have a PA resident LTCF, a non-resident Utah CFP and a non-resident Florida CW/FL. I am very partial to my Florida permit even though it is a bit on the expensive side to acquire and also requires a visit to the state of Florida in order to get everything done. (I am aware that a visit to the state is not strictly speaking necessary, but for all practical purposes, there will be much less "pushing on a string" and frustration if you just plan a visit to Florida and get it done.) I was able to knock out all my requirements in 2 days; one for the class and the firing range visit and then an hour or so the following Monday morning to submit my paperwork and get my fingerprints done at the Tax Collector's Office (You can also submit at the local Sheriff's Office). The Florida permit is very versitile. It stands on its own merits; that is to say that possession of a resident permit from your home state is not a pre-condition for being issued the FL CW/FL. It covers a lot of states. One state I have used it in that is not covered by either of my other permits is New Mexico (I like the West and south west). ETA: The FL CW/FL is good for 7 years. 
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According to usconcealedcarry.com, North Dakota appears to have the most states with reciprocity at 39. South Dakota is just behind at 38, but for the life of me I can't figure out what the odd state is. When I count them up, South Dakota also has 39 reciprocity, but the stat says 38. Maybe it's some technicality, I have no idea. If any state has 40 or more, I can't find it. And just to be clear, South Dakota offers 3 levels of CCW licenses. We are a constitutional carry state, but supposedly offer a regular CCW permit, although I fail to see why anyone would get it. There is also a "gold" permit, which has the same requirements as the regular, but gets you into a lot of states. Basically you just give fingerprints and pass the background check. There is also the "enhanced" permit, which is what I have. All you do is pass a single CCW class, and then fingerprints and background check. All of them are completely free, except for the CCW class itself, but I fail to see why anyone would do anything except the enhanced permit. The above comments I made were with the assumption of the enhanced permit. |
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Originally Posted By fgshoot: According to usconcealedcarry.com, North Dakota appears to have the most states with reciprocity at 39. South Dakota is just behind at 38, but for the life of me I can't figure out what the odd state is. When I count them up, South Dakota also has 39 reciprocity, but the stat says 38. Maybe it's some technicality, I have no idea. If any state has 40 or more, I can't find it. And just to be clear, South Dakota offers 3 levels of CCW licenses. We are a constitutional carry state, but supposedly offer a regular CCW permit, although I fail to see why anyone would get it. There is also a "gold" permit, which has the same requirements as the regular, but gets you into a lot of states. Basically you just give fingerprints and pass the background check. There is also the "enhanced" permit, which is what I have. All you do is pass a single CCW class, and then fingerprints and background check. All of them are completely free, except for the CCW class itself, but I fail to see why anyone would do anything except the enhanced permit. The above comments I made were with the assumption of the enhanced permit. Those are very good numbers for North and South Dakota. It could be that the discrepancy between 39 and 38 states for South Dakota maybe could be non-resident vs resident reciprocity? That's something that needs to be looked at carefully when determining reciprocity, that some states only recognize resident permits from other states. My combination of PA, UT and FL only gets me to 37 states, but one of those states is Hawaii, which I don't bother to count because I will never go there. Another odd state is SC which doesn't seem to extend reciprocity to very many other states. Of course there are the "usual suspects"; states that hate gun owners and have nothing but contempt for gun owners rights: NY, NJ, MA, CT, CA, HI, IL, RI and I still include MD in this even though MD has very reluctantly loosened its draconian gun laws and ccw requirements a little bit. IMO, MD and NJ have only defacto "shall issue" permitting what with their onerous financial and qualification barriers to getting a permit. |
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Originally Posted By fgshoot: According to usconcealedcarry.com, North Dakota appears to have the most states with reciprocity at 39. South Dakota is just behind at 38, but for the life of me I can't figure out what the odd state is. When I count them up, South Dakota also has 39 reciprocity, but the stat says 38. Maybe it's some technicality, I have no idea. If any state has 40 or more, I can't find it. And just to be clear, South Dakota offers 3 levels of CCW licenses. We are a constitutional carry state, but supposedly offer a regular CCW permit, although I fail to see why anyone would get it. There is also a "gold" permit, which has the same requirements as the regular, but gets you into a lot of states. Basically you just give fingerprints and pass the background check. There is also the "enhanced" permit, which is what I have. All you do is pass a single CCW class, and then fingerprints and background check. All of them are completely free, except for the CCW class itself, but I fail to see why anyone would do anything except the enhanced permit. The above comments I made were with the assumption of the enhanced permit.  SD rocks! Everybody carries here. Zero crime in my town. Zero. |
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