Clarifying the Impact of Virginia’s Change to Permit Reciprocity

Last week the Attorney General in Virginia made national headlines when he announced that on Feb 1st, 2016 Virginia will stop honoring permits from 25 states. He has been accused of using his authority to further a political agenda while hurting law abiding citizens… which is true. Because we (USA Firearm Training) have promoted the…

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Maine Now Honors Permits from 16 New States

On June 5th, 2015 Legislative Document 868 was signed into law by Governor Paul LePage of Maine. Described as “An Act To Remove Limitations on Reciprocity for Concealed Handguns Permits” the change removes the power from the state police to enter into reciprocity agreements and instead forces Maine to recognize any resident permit from any state that also…

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Minnesota Drops Four States and Adds Eight to Reciprocity List

In the 2015 legislative session in Minnesota a law passed that changed the requirement for permit reciprocity from the phrase “Substantially similar” to “similar.” Due to this change the Department of Public Safety has re-evaluated the state permits it will honor and has made some significant changes. Here are the States that Are NO LONGER…

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Pennsylvania Stops Recognizing Utah’s CCW Permit

On May 6th of this year the below letter was sent from the attorney general’s office of Pennsylvania to the office of the Utah Department of Public Safety. Apparently the state of Pennsylvania is no longer comfortable honoring the Utah permit being issued to out of state residents who do not first obtain a permit…

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Utah Concealed Carry Class in New York

Recently the number of people who apply for the non-resident Utah permit with so much ease and so little training has been getting national attention. Journalists have been taking the class just to understand how difficult it really is. More than half of the people that apply for the Utah permit are non-residents. A fact that the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification doesn’t mind disclosing.

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