Best post here.
3 words since permits are the antithesis to 2A.
Pshaw, I feel I was nitpicking. But thankew.
In one sense, OP is hoping there's a known magic template;
maybe even one specific to Waltham.
And similar questions (for other towns?)
have been answered successfully on NES by those in the know.
I've seen "I wrote
this and it worked", which is a relief to someone
with writer's block and First World <Bleep>hole fear.
And at least once I've seen someone in the know
(probably just knows someone on the force,
or was treated to candor from the licensing officer) who wrote
"the Chief just wants to be reassured of X, or Not Y".
Where X or Not Y are exactly the kind of people
we wish all gun owners were.
In the other sense, it was nitpicking
both because I had nothing constructive to contribute
(except that "I have children" doesn't strike
me as on-point)
and because I was sowing Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
(except that in the reddest towns, "I have children"
is a trap).
"On-point" might be "I just opened a jewelry store".
"On-point" might be "I just got out of an abusive relationship,
and my out-of-state abuser's prison term ends soon".
"On-point" might be "I just retired from the military,
and I'm a championship target shooter".
I'm not saying you ought to be one of those things
to rate being able to have guns.
I'm just saying that while anyone might flip those on their heads
(like I did with the "children"), in real life a reasonable green CoP
is going to think those are reasonable reasons.
But thankew.
Which is what I put on our original forms.
(Minus the bolding (crayon?
)).
To our (unbeknownst to me green) town's CoP.
I knew there was a magic phrase, but couldn't remember it.
So I just searched the Intarwebs and found it.
I knew it when I saw it again.
My deep suspicion is that I found it on NES,
15 months before I joined.
NES delivers.
I didn't think the phrase was
a subliminal trigger implanted by the Bene Gesserit sisterhood
in all chiefs' minds during training,
that would make them involuntarily issue LTC-A/unres.
But I did imagine that it was a brushback pitch
to the degree that it signaled
we'd been getting advice from the right place,
and if things didn't go well,
we might just pick a good lawyer.
(As if that would suffice in a red town).
It would have sucked if it put a hair across the chief's grommet, eh?