It took us 5 months to get ours renewed but the appointment letter served as a temporary permit until they were actually renewed in Henry County. However you cannot use it to purchase a firearm, you have to go through the system.
Not sure about a pistol, but I know for a fact the LOCAL UPS store will not accept ammo for shipping. They said it must go through a hub.
Do not understand why. Same trucks and drivers handle it.
Check your county ordinances.
No matter how much land you are on, they state how many feet/yards you can be from another house.
Henry County is about to change the laws here and will screw up my backyard range.
There is 50 acres of land behind mine, but will not be able to get far enough away...
Is Virginia different somehow? How does the state have anything to do with county sheriffs elected by the people of that county? They are not state police. Maybe I am misinformed.
We have several grey fox that hang around our place. We feed them bread, they come within ten feet of back steps and sit and wait. They have never bothered our cat who will sit next to the house and watch them.
Also would rather have the fox. Keep mice under control. Damn lazy cat won't.
Please talk to a good lawyer or you could be in a very bad way. My grandson has experienced this and did not come out in a good way because he did not have adequate representation.
Don't matter what it is, stick, rock, paperweight, whatever. If you hit someone with it they can charge you with assault with a deadly weapon. My oldest son hit a guy across the forehead with the barrel of an EMPTY gun, no mag, in self defense and was taken to jail. Charges were eventually...