When did you get your first State issued carry permit?

[lilred06]

Couple days after my 21st birthday lol can’t remember what year. 2010? Something like that

 

[yellowhammer]

1969. It was called a "Pistol Toter`s License". Really. About as useful as a backseat driver`s license. Good for open carry only. I had to take the pistol I wanted to carry into the Paulding County courthouse and register it. I stood in line, holding the pistol, along with a couple dozen folks paying traffic tickets. I had just moved here from NC, where you could open carry without a license. Nobody did. We all broke the law and carried concealed. The fine was $35. Ask me how I know that.

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

When did I first get a carry permit?

The opening words to Don McLain's "American Pie" come to mind.

 

[41mag]

1985

 

[lostchild]

1969. It was called a "Pistol Toter`s License". Really. About as useful as a backseat driver`s license. Good for open carry only. I had to take the pistol I wanted to carry into the Paulding County courthouse and register it. I stood in line, holding the pistol, along with a couple dozen folks paying traffic tickets. I had just moved here from NC, where you could open carry without a license. Nobody did. We all broke the law and carried concealed. The fine was $35. Ask me how I know that.

LOL... I believe it was $3.00, good for a year, and only for the 1 gun that you had registered. Multiple guns, multiple licenses. Plus, even then folks freaked out when they noticed you open carry.
Many just went back to concealed. I had friends who had been carrying that way since we were 15.

 

[Sneakypete]

1983

 

[aragorn1]

When I turned 21.

 

[cookie72]

1993 - 94

 

[lwshack]

1981 in New Hampshire it was issued by the chief of police of the town you lived in ... who was my
dad...

 

[carver]

1985