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      03-24-2017, 12:22 AM   #1629
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You can do that too, but things tend to get lost doing it that way. I actually did that first and didn't hear anything for more than 8 weeks. Called to check on the status and they didn't have my application in the system.

So i made an appointment and did it all in their office, which was much easier. Oddly enough, the check i sent into them some 6 months prior via mail, cleared the bank about 1 month after getting my permit. I contacted them about them charging me twice but it was futile. I just resigned the extra cash and carried on.
sadly im not surprised they took your money for a service they did not provide.

my permit only took 4 weeks. GA is fantasticly weapons friendly.
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Does the permit wait times vary from state to state or is it a 6-8 month wait for approval or denial for everyone? It seems like that's a ridiculous wait time that Louisiana has. The OMV moves faster.
Iowa is a must issue state. I got my permit in the mail about a week after applying.
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Shot my first Rimfire Challenge match today, it was awesome! I think i surprised the seasoned guys I was shooting with.
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Shot my first Rimfire Challenge match today, it was awesome! I think i surprised the seasoned guys I was shooting with.
Did you shoot at them or the judges?
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Did you shoot at them or the judges?
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      04-01-2017, 09:57 AM   #1636
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Shot my first Rimfire Challenge match today, it was awesome! I think i surprised the seasoned guys I was shooting with.
what were you shooting? (what gun)
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      04-01-2017, 03:07 PM   #1637
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Hi guise. Please give advice. I posted this in another thread but think this thread would be more relevant.

I'm turning 21 (legal age for handgun purchase) in a few months and have been considering purchasing a handgun for personal defense, but I'm torn. It isn't manufacturers and the stupid NRA that make me want one, it's incidents like this. I'm worried that some idiot will pull a gun on me on the road or something (call me paranoid if you want). I'm not interested in being a hero, but as someone who often has deep thoughts about life and wasted life around the world (not only due to guns), I'm not interested in getting shot.

The conflict within is whether I think I can trust myself with a handgun. Will I get heated enough to pull a gun on someone during a conflict when they're not an imminent danger? Will I become a part of those statistics, like suicide, family homicide, accidental discharge injury, etc? Where would I carry? With CHL, I could carry on campus, but I'm not interested in that. Would handgun stay in car only?

Will the handgun do more harm than good? Basically that's where I'm at.

Also, I have shot guns before, including automatic AK47, but I'm only interested in purchasing one handgun. Nothing else. I was thinking a somewhat compact Glock or Sig Sauer, nothing too small though.
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Thats a question you have to answer. It boils down to personal responsibility. Do you feel you will be responsible with it or not. If you have concerns about the answer, I wouldn't. I will tell you thst permit owners cause the lowest percentage of gun crime of any measurable group, including police. I will also tell you legal gun owners with guns stop over 2 million crimes a year. Those statistcs don't make the news.
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Easy way to think about it is the old Spiderman saying. With great power comes great responsibility.
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what were you shooting? (what gun)
S&W Victory 22 with a Tandomkross trigger and a 10/22 takedown with a volquartzen trigger, both iron sights.

Turns out I shot 5th overall which isnt too bad for my first competition and everyone else had optics. Had a number of malfunctions due to shitty ammo however so I'm going to order some better CCI stuff for next time.
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Thats a question you have to answer. It boils down to personal responsibility. Do you feel you will be responsible with it or not. If you have concerns about the answer, I wouldn't.
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Those were exactly my thoughts. I'll probably take a weapons safety class and the CHL class, as well as take a look at and rent a few handguns to shoot, before making a decision.

https://centraltexasgunworks.com/fir...training-class
https://centraltexasgunworks.com/chl...nitial-classes
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Had a fun 8 hr CCW class today... learned a lot. A lot of people there that I don't think have ever shot before...
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Had a fun 8 hr CCW class today... learned a lot. A lot of people there that I don't think have ever shot before...
When I took mine a few years ago there was a lady that literally took 25min to learn how to lock the slide back manually
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      04-02-2017, 10:00 AM   #1646
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When I took mine a few years ago there was a lady that literally took 25min to learn how to lock the slide back manually
This isn't that uncommon.... I worked in a gun store for all of last year and we got to the point of just telling beginners to go get lessons because it took too long to explain everything to them. I'd still do a quick run through of stuff if we were slow, but we were in the business of selling guns, not teaching for free. We had print outs of all the local training places and ranges to give people. Shitty thing is almost all the ranges are rival gun stores, but it helps the community overall to reinforce safety and get people into classrooms before the range.

I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain the simple aspects of how a handgun functions. Then there are the women who have it locked in their mind they have to have a revolver because someone told them something about them never jamming..... Men were usually more open to advice, but women tend to be more stubborn when it comes to their first gun. Same with trying to explain that a .40 is going to be too much for them and to get a 9mm, but someone got it in their heads that 9mm might as well be shooting marshmellows at someone.
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Had a fun 8 hr CCW class today... learned a lot. A lot of people there that I don't think have ever shot before...
I had a similar experience. There were people there that never even held a gun before. Those same people also thought it was amazing that I scored 100% on the written test.

There was one lady that couldn't pass the range test either. It was a while ago, but I think you had to land three shots on a paper plate to pass. She literally couldn't hit the paper plate. Sometimes I wonder if people need more training on top of that class to be eligible for a CCW.
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Yeah it's comical really. There is no real standard for the shooting portion. The state requires 2 hrs of live fire training which doesn't mean much. We shot 50 rds each, some one handed, weak handed. Doing controlled doubles and stuff. Some people were missing a torso sized target from 20 ft away.... and they got certificates I'm sure.
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The conflict within is whether I think I can trust myself with a handgun. Will I get heated enough to pull a gun on someone during a conflict when they're not an imminent danger? Will I become a part of those statistics, like suicide, family homicide, accidental discharge injury, etc?...

...Will the handgun do more harm than good? Basically that's where I'm at.
Honestly, if you have to ask yourself these questions I would advise against it.

A firearm is an inanimate object. It has no ability to think, make decisions or take actions. It can't influence you. If those topics are issues for you they probably already exist without adding a firearm to the mix.
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