Concealed Carry Facts - The Everyday Questions

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TO APPLY FOR AN ILLINOIS CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT, YOU MUST:

- Be at 21 years of age or older

- Possess a valid FOID Card, or meet requirements of a FOID card

- Complete the required firearms training course. If you have taken a prior class, please refer to the list of training courses acceptable to satisfy the prior training requirements, consistent with Sections 75(g) and (i) of the Act, and the appropriate credit to be applied for each. See the list here: Acceptable Prior Credit List

- Not have been convicted of two or more DUI violations within the last 5 years or completed court-ordered addiction treatment.

- No active warrants for your arrest or

- Not have been charged with a misdemeanor involving the use or threat of physical violence

CONCEALED CARRY TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

-Training must be provided by approved and certified instructors by the Illinois State Police.

- The class curriculum MUST be approved and certified by Illinois State Police.

-Completion of the 16 hour firearm training, with a curriculum that includes: Legal usage of firearms, firearm safety, marksmanship, principles of marksmanship, and cleaning/maintaining firearms.

-Training must include a live fire exercise of at least 30 rounds with a 70 percent accuracy at minimum.

-Must provide proof to the instructor of previous training to receive appropriate credit to be applied toward the 16 hour training

ILLINOIS CONCEALED CARRY APPLICATION FEES:

-$150 for a 5 year permit

-There will be a charge of $75 to replace a lost or stolen license

-There will be a charge of $75 to change your address

-Fingerprints are not required but highly recommended. If you do not supply LiveScan prints with your application, you may be charge additional fees by the Illinois State Police, and your application could be delayed by 30 or more.

FIREARMS ARE PROHIBITED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

-Secondary schools and/or elementary schools

-All preschools

-Any Government facility or agency including courthouses

-Colleges and universities

-Public libraries

-Airports

-Casinos and/or gaming facilities. This includes off-track betting facilities

-Sporting events

-Stadiums and.or arenas

-Amusement parks

-Zoos

-Museums

 

[apvbguy]

this should be moved to a more appropriate sub forum

 

[CharlesMorrison]

Holy crap! I don't think I've seen so much INFRINGEMENT in my life!!!
Good luck and God bless those of you in Il!
It's going to cost a small fortune just to exercise a friggin RIGHT!


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[BluesStringer]

Holy crap! I don't think I've seen so much INFRINGEMENT in my life!!!
Good luck and God bless those of you in Il!
It's going to cost a small fortune just to exercise a friggin RIGHT!

The lost or change of address charges equal the exact amount of what a five-year renewal would cost us here in Bama.

That said, I don't think the $150 is all that exorbitant compared to other blue states, and even some red states. We were thinking about moving up the road a piece to Southern Tennessee and looked into what it would cost to get us both permission-slipped up there. Turned out with the training requirements and the licensing fees it would be between $400 and $500 for both of us. That would only be for the first time, and then the renewal fees actually worked out a little bit cheaper than here, but it would take us probably more time than we have left on this Earth to make the renewal fees make up for the initial costs. We are sticking with Bama in part for that reason.

You gotta understand Charles, your state is the only one in the Union that has zero costs associated with exercising our rights under the 2nd Amendment. There are a couple or three others where you can OC without any statutory costs involved (AZ, AK - any others?), and I think AZ allows CC without a permission slip too, but both AZ and AK have permission slips available (for a cost), mostly so that their reciprocity agreements with other states will be honored, which are contingent on even having a permission slip system to reciprocate on. If I'm not mistaken, Vermont is the only state in which you couldn't spend money for the "right" to carry even if you wanted to. There's no permitting system in place to spend money on.

I don't spend a lot of time researching what other states' permits cost, but just from running into that info from time to time, IL's charges seem fairly light to me, considering that they're coming out of a nearly total ban on carrying at all. I'm kind of surprised the State Legislature didn't try to squeeze a couple or three more pounds of flesh out of gun owners there.

Blues

 

[CharlesMorrison]

New Hampshire is an OC state without a permit. I just can't keep it on me while in the car.
I will at some point pay the "rental fee" for my 2nd in another state, just not right now.
Yes. Vermont has no system in place nor any fee required to carry OC or CC.
Burlington is attempting to change that for their town but our Constitution won't allow for it.
Those are the libtards from NY and Ma that come up here and shyt themselves because of our lax carry laws...
A lot if those tools will find themselves on the outside looking in very soon though.


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[Pitt County Pride]

OC is lawful in North Carolina, except for certain locations (i.e.: schools, places where alcohol is both sold & served, etc.), no paperwork or permitting fees required... Vehicle carry is not an issue....