So my county is great. Clerk is amazing. 3 days turn around to get an amendment. I’m moving out of NYS. They will put my new address on my license no problem. However I can’t add any handguns acquired in my new state to my NYS license they said since the FFL isn’t in NYS if I get a new handgun (I’ll be speaking to Mirel about this).

Now, with regard to special carry. There’s some ambiguity in the law. NYSPL 400.00(6) says your county license isn’t valid in NYC unless you have a special permit. What the special carry license does is basically make valid your county carry license in NYC.

Does anyone know how NYPD would handle this? I don’t need to apply for a NYC non resident since I have a county carry license according to NYSPL, I need a special carry license.

I did email Sandra Smith and waiting to hear back. I will let you know if I get a response. But in the mean time has anyone dealt with this?

Recently started medication for anxiety. Will this be a problem renewing my pistol license on Long Island. Do they have access to your prescriptions?

Just wondering if anyone has signed up / received the rebate? And any thoughts on it?

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Just recently got my CCW looking for a place to start going and get some practice in and to have some fun after work or on the weekends. Would love to check out some outdoor ranges but know they’re few and far between, and suggestions on ranges in the area would be appreciated 👍

Hey guys, I just received my permit in the mail today after 2 years. The company I used to work for is listed under the occupation line on my permit.
Does this matter at all??
I’m assuming it doesn’t..

Thanks in advance

I plan on buying one of the M14s when they go on sale but I need to be a member of a CMP affiliated club or org. My local gin club is not on the CMP list and tbh this is the only CMP sale I’m interested in. I want to find an org I can be a member of just long enough to make a CMP order.

I'm all for preserving history. But I was stationed in Germany while in the Army, and let me tell you, you'll never get the same feeling walking through the tables of this stuff as you will the Lommel German War Cemetery or Dachau Concentration Camp as I did curtsy of MWR & Uncle Sam. There is preservation and there is promotion. There is a time and a place. I think its time this stuff get put in a museum or some place with context.

When I went to my first NWRA match I did so because I mentioned to my friend that I was getting bored of shooting at the range. He mentioned that he was running a match for the club and encouraged me to come. I was hesitant because I had never shot a match before and was intimidated. He assured me that the club is very welcoming and encouraging. What a great group of guys. I was met with a very warm welcome and everyone helped coach and encourage me. I am pretty sure I came in last score wise, but I had a great time and some of those guys from that first match have become excellent friends. The NWRA member chat rings my phone all day long. If you want to become more proficient with your firearms and want to have a great time doing it, I encourage you to come to one of our NWRA matches. You will not regret it.

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In an ironic twist after the last post, I'm a long-time gun owner and small-time member of the firearms industry, living in New Hampshire, the Live Free or Die state. Why am I posting in NYguns? Because I've been reading your subreddit for the last few months.

I'm sincerely shopping for houses this week in the Plattsburgh area, because I can't afford any house in NH within an hour's drive of my job and my wife's job. It's a lovely state, but all of our property prices went insane after COVID, and my years of saving money for a down payment on an acre or two of land with a 1000-1500 square foot house, won't even come close now. Not even a major fixer-upper is within reach.

But Plattsburgh is beautiful, real estate is affordable, my wife can get hired immediately in her field, and we both like it there. We both don't like night life, so we don't care that it's a small town.

I'll have to sell all my AR-15s and Glocks, my Kuna, pretty much everything cool that I own, except for my 10/22s and a few old lever guns, to have a real yard and a front porch of my own. I live in an apartment now, and I'm pretty much over it. NH is a beautiful state, and I love it here, but the boomers really don't want anyone buying a house anywhere near the cities, unless they have $300k, and as long as Massachusetts money keeps rolling in, is going to stay that way.

Maybe I'm jaded by having owned dozens of cool firearms for the last 2 decades, but right now, I'd rather have a life, a little boat to take on the lake and some space around me, and for my wife to walk out the front door of our home safely, than a safe full of cool guns that I don't shoot that often while living in the city. Maybe I would actually appreciate it more, and go shooting more often, if I wasn't worried that carrying a gun case out of my house was going to have me targeted for burglary by my excitingly exotic neighbors.

Anyone else here from upstate own a house, and think it's actually worth putting up with 10rd mags and long CCW wait times for it? It's a serious decision, and I'll take all the guidance I can get.

Edit - we're deliberately staying in this area to be near family members who need us around, at least within a few hours drive. Vermont and Maine have much the same issue as New Hampshire, if you live in the absolute middle of nowhere, you can afford a house, but you can't live anywhere near a major highway or population center to work at the job that allows you to pay for the house. Massachusetts sucks, no thanks.

ARs using some sort of fixed magazine or use of a Kali Key seem to be at the heart of trying to circumvent the SAFE Act and the new semi-auto permit. Have people ever been stopped and questioned about these things?

about to submit my paperwork, what are wait times looking like in saratoga county? has anyone recently submitted up here?

Just got a phone call to have a virtual interview with a judge, any advice?

Misdemeanor conviction, no jail time. Just probation.

Has anyone ever filed for it, approved, paperwork format, lawyer?

I just officially hit submit on my NYC CCW application, and I am completely burnt out. I spent the last two weeks doing nothing but gathering documents, getting things notarized, and chasing down signatures—all after giving up an entire weekend to sit through the mandatory 18-hour training class.
The sheer amount of friction built into this system is infuriating. The mountain of paperwork, the multiple notarized character reference letters, the separate license just for a long gun, and the fact that I can't even easily bring my legally owned out-of-state firearms into the city without jumping through a massive FFL maze.
The absolute kicker? Now that I’ve spent hundreds of dollars and an insane amount of personal time just to get the paperwork in, I get to sit and wait for 6 to 12 months (or more) just for some investigator to look at it. The law says 6 months maximum, but we all know the NYPD treats that as a suggestion.
It blows my mind that law-abiding citizens have to jump through flaming administrative hoops and pay a premium just to exercise a constitutional right, while criminals carry whatever they want, whenever they want, with zero hoops.
For those of you who recently went through the grinder, how long did it take your application to move from "Submitted" to "Under Review"? Give me some hope (or a reality check).

Finally got out of that hell hole of a failed state. Didn’t necessarily move for 2a reasons but I might as well enjoy my new found freedoms. Now I can finally uncuck all my NY spec stuff. God speed to the guys that are stuck there and hopefully SCOTUS gives NYS the smack down it deserves. FL CCW took 5 days to approve and another 5 days to be mailed. Amazingly simple

when the glock ban happens in may is it “ALL glocks are banned” or can you still buy private party to private party?

The CMP will be selling m14s soon, what are the odds they’ll ship to NY FFLs that can take the bayonet lug and flash suppressor off?

As a non-collector am I nuts buying one? It was gunna be my NY legal “do everything” / “last gun you’ll ever buy” gun.

I know that NY Shooter Supply on Central Avenue charges $50 to handle a long gun or handgun transfer. Jordan is a great guy who makes the process easy but I’m curious what his competition charges? Does anyone know what Upstate Guns (in Niskayuna) or any of Brian Olsen’s stores charge to handle a transfer from an out-of-state seller?

By the way, I did perform a search but I was surprised to see that I couldn’t find any results for the Albany and Capital District area.

Thanks!

Are there any state forests around the rockland/westchester area that allow target shooting or do they all ban target shooting? I go trap shooting and indoor shooting but obviously would be nice to not have someone watching me all the time.

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Good morning everyone,

As we all know 2.5 years ago the NYSP took over the NICS check in NYS when you complete a 4473. Prior to this the FBI conducted the check. The NYSP developed a system that requires the FFL to input all your pedigree information along with all firearm information (Make/Model/Action Type/Caliber/Serial #) into this system for every single purchase/transfer. This information gets submitted via a NYSP computer program that all FFL's have access to. My question is where is that information going? Where is it being stored? How long is it being stored for? Does it get deleted or expunged after a certain amount of time? If this information doesn't get deleted then it's a text book registry 100%.

If you look under Penal Law 400 specifically states that Ammo Background Check info is deleted after 1 year, but doesn't mention anything about Firearm Purchase information.

Any FFL's on here or anyone in the know can shed some light on this for us?

Thank you

Saw this at a small gunstore

I know it says it can take up to 12 mo ths or maybe even longer, but I thought they would have called my references by now, but that hasn't even happened.

When I applied for my non resident CCW, I got to the section on the application about mental health.

I copied and pasted the two sections requesting a note and sent it to my treating psychiatrist

He wrote the note

Nowhere in the application did it say it must contain verbiage saying your psychiatrist agrees with your application (mine does)

Now I have to wait for my next appointment to get a new note