POLL - NV CCW Permits Fees

[varminter22]

In order to obtain a Nevada CCW permit, one must first obtain training, usually at a cost of $80 to $125. Then one must pay $40.25 for fingerprinting and a $60 application fee to the sheriff. Add ammunition costs (for qualification shooting) and the total cost for obtaining a CCW permit can easily approach or exceed $200.

NV should retain its current fee structure

200 is cheap; NV should raise its current fees

NV should decrease its current fees

Please vote here: http://www.stillwaterfirearms.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=17

[Bill of Rights]

I don't live in NV, but I still voted that they should decrease. I only voted that because they didn't have an option for "there should be no fee for the exercise of a fundamental and Constitutional right."

Blessings,
B

[VegasGeorge]

Firstly, I agree with Bill of Rights. After all, folks, Nevada is an open carry state. It's perfectly legal to strap a gun on, and go take a walk. So, what's the big deal about concealed carry? Concealed carry just means that you don't know who has a gun, and who doesn't. So what?

The fees and the wait time are both out of line. I wonder why out legislature specified 120 days? Of course, that's written as an outside deadline. Of course, the State drags its feet and doesn't issue until the time is almost up. Stupid!

[varminter22]

I don't live in NV, but I still voted that they should decrease. I only voted that because they didn't have an option for "there should be no fee for the exercise of a fundamental and Constitutional right."

Blessings,
B

For that issue, vote here: www.stillwaterfirearms.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=16

Thanks!

[varminter22]

Firstly, I agree with Bill of Rights. After all, folks, Nevada is an open carry state. It's perfectly legal to strap a gun on, and go take a walk. So, what's the big deal about concealed carry? Concealed carry just means that you don't know who has a gun, and who doesn't. So what?

The fees and the wait time are both out of line. I wonder why out legislature specified 120 days? Of course, that's written as an outside deadline. Of course, the State drags its feet and doesn't issue until the time is almost up. Stupid!

I also agree!

We already have laws against the criminal carry/use of firearms.

In NV, concealed carry without a permit is punishable as a felony. Good grief. Some legislators must think that criminals care about laws!

VT/AK style should be our ultimate goal in NV (and nationwide, for that matter). Alas, it won't happen "overnight" - but it should be our long term goal.

Thanks for voting/commenting in/on our poll.

[jayspapa2002]

I voted also for reduced rates. There is no reason , other than money grabing , to charge anything for a right. What makes this high FEE even more hard to swallow is the fact that I live in a right denied state and sent 26 dollars to Pa. and recieved a permit without any training required. I also know that WHEN we finally get a ccw law passed here , this state will also want to charge a very high fee. harold

[Bill of Rights]

Firstly, I agree with Bill of Rights. After all, folks, Nevada is an open carry state. It's perfectly legal to strap a gun on, and go take a walk. So, what's the big deal about concealed carry? Concealed carry just means that you don't know who has a gun, and who doesn't. So what?

The fees and the wait time are both out of line. I wonder why out legislature specified 120 days? Of course, that's written as an outside deadline. Of course, the State drags its feet and doesn't issue until the time is almost up. Stupid!

I also agree!

We already have laws against the criminal carry/use of firearms.

In NV, concealed carry without a permit is punishable as a felony. Good grief. Some legislators must think that criminals care about laws!

VT/AK style should be our ultimate goal in NV (and nationwide, for that matter). Alas, it won't happen "overnight" - but it should be our long term goal.

Thanks for voting/commenting in/on our poll.
I voted in the other one too, and thank you both for the agreement. With respect, I should say that we on BBs dealing with concealed carry tend to all say we want VT/AK style carry. How we mean this is not how it is, however. We mean that there should be no laws governing who may carry (other than criminals and children-groups to which we don't belong)

Those states both also restrict where one is allowed to carry; Alaska, for example, does not permit even a holder of a CCW permit to carry in someone else's home without the express permission of an adult who lives there.

I submit that if we truly want the 2A as written, we cannot restrictthose locations, those groups or any other. I fully agree that if a person uses their firearm to commit a violent crime, that person should be punished to the full extent of the law, whether by "the law" or by the intended victim. I further agree that use of firearms by children should be controlled-not by the law, however, but by their parents, who should have taught them proper safety (Eddie Eagle, anyone?) at a minimum.

To say that "criminals shouldn't have guns" is akin to saying that there should be a penalty beyond "trespassing" that is due for simply walking into a "prohibited location"; that is, a prior history of criminal behavior should not bar someone from being able to defend themselves from others currently engaging in similar behavior. If they can't be trusted with a gun, they should not be trusted with freedom from their cells.

The Second Amendment does not make any distinction that certain citizens should be denied their rights because of past misbehavior, nor does it define the age at which those rights become active, as far as I've seen. I don't think we should do things to change that.

Blessings,
B