Connecticut Citizens Defense League Asks for & Gets Clarification on CT Pistol Permits Applications
Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 1:47 PMConnecticut Citizens Defense League Asks for & Gets Clarification on CT Pistol Permits Applications
Connecticut Citizens Defense League
GROTON, CT - -(AmmoLand.com)- The CCDL, Inc. has taken action to help Connecticut citizens applying for gun permits!
Many issuing authorities in Connecticut have for years taken it upon themselves to ask for extra information from applicants for their permit to carry pistols and revolvers.
These intrusive bits of information include things such as 3 letters of recommendation that may need to be notarized, signed forms allowing the issuing authority to do financial credit checks, and some even request applicants to sign waivers so authorities can check your medical/mental health history records.
This extra information has never been required by any state statute.
Members of the CCDL have asked that the Board of Firearms Permit Examiners (BFPE) make a Declaratory Ruling on whether all of this extra information is needed when applying for a permit.
Many people applying for their permit are not aware of what is deemed necessary by the State of Connecticut. Some have supplied the extra information to get their permit; others have considered it an invasion of their privacy and decided against applying for their permit on principle, thus compromising their Second Amendment rights!
The official ruling from BFPE is that anything not specifically called out in the CT state statues is NOT necessary when applying for a permit. They will be sending a copy of their ruling to each and every issuing authority in Connecticut.
The people of this State, that are interested in getting their permits, need to know that they CANNOT be found unsuitable by any issuing authority, just because they did not supply the extra information at the time they apply for their carry permit.
The BFPE is a group made up of volunteers! The CCDL would like to thank them for the very long hours of service that they put in helping gun owners in this great State of ours!
A PDF file of the full ruling is available here: http://www.ycgg.org/pdfpages/bfpedeclrule.pdf
Sincerely, Bennett PrescottPublic Relations Coordinator
Connecticut Citizens Defense League
publicrelations@ccdl.us
www.ccdl.us
About:
The Connecticut Citizens Defense League is a non-partisan, grassroots organization devoted to advocating rights affirmed by the Constitutions of the United States of America and the State of Connecticut. We are especially dedicated to protecting the unalienable right of all citizens to keep and bear arms, for the defense of both self and state, through public enlightenment and legislative action. Visit: www.ccdl.us
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Very good to see that there is a local organization in Connecticut standing up for the rights of Connecticut gun owners!!
If all the states had such organizations the “Gun Grabbers” would have a much tougher time passing anti-gun legislation!
This is excellent. I’m very happy to see CCDL doing for CT citizens what the Virginia Citizens Defense League is doing for Virginians. VCDL has gotten the courts to the point where it is rare to see any extraneous or extra-legal information being asked for, when applying for CCW permits. Keep up the great work!