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RIGHT ON!!!!
I'm actually charged up about this now... How do I join the NRA! I'm joining this forum too!
RIGHT ON!!!!
I'm actually charged up about this now... How do I join the NRA! I'm joining this forum too!
Has anybody been to the Smith and Wesson factory to do their deal where they let you shoot lots of different guns?
Perhaps this isn't the forum for this discussion, but as a real neophyte I can't believe how difficult getting a gun license is given what I thought was our CONSTITUTIONAL right to bear arms!
Seriously - is the the United States of America? Have any legislators read the Constitution lately?!?!?!?
I know in a forum like this I'm preaching to the choir, but I really had no idea how nutty gun laws seem to be in this country.
So has anyone had any luck with removing restrictions to an existing LTC in Fitchburg? From what I've read here, the new CLEO is giving out A/ALP LTCs?
UPDATE - one of my references said that they got a call from the police today... I was surprised only because my references were both notorized. I thought I read earlier in the thread that having them notorized would speed things up because they could avoid having to call. Thoughts on this? Does this mean things could take longer, or could it mean they are close to done?
NOTE - given that they don't specifically ask for phone numbers or addresses on the reference letter, people may want to know to have them if they are going to call and confirm notorized letters anyway!
UPDATE - one of my references said that they got a call from the police today... I was surprised only because my references were both notorized [sic]. I thought I read earlier in the thread that having them notorized [sic] would speed things up because they could avoid having to call. Thoughts on this? Does this mean things could take longer, or could it mean they are close to done?
1. The word you are attempting to use is "notArized.".
2. As there is no requirement for any letters, any further demands as to the letters themselves are even more devoid of required compliance.
3. The notarization "requirement" is ostensibly to save the PD the onerous, crushing burden of having to call the reference. As I always provide the phone number on the "References" section of the application, that excuse is, shall we say, less than compelling. I have never heard of my PD calling any of my references, anyway.
The issuing officer asked me specifically not to fill out the application in advance. He told me to bring certain documents, and that he would ask me the questions he wanted / needed answered.
And this would be for WHAT reason?
Do you go to the IRS and expect someone there to fill out your tax form - and represent YOUR interests in the process?
And if you are stupid enough to follow those directions, what will you have to show what your intended answers were?
HINT: All the questions must be answered - correctly. Sitting at the station, wholly unprepared and clearly clueless does not create the conditions for optimal results.
I bet you wouldn't even think to get a copy of the MIRCS app before you left.
If I wanted to go to a place that I help financially support where I could get insulted, I'd go home to my wife.
First of all, I don't appreciate you insinuating that I am stupid. I didn't become a paying member of this forum to be insulted. If I wanted to go to a place that I help financially support where I could get insulted, I'd go home to my wife.
Second of all, I joined NES because I am a novice and new to the process of applying for, and getting a gun. The reason I followed the advice of the licensing authority TO THE LETTER was because that was the advice I received directly on this forum, as well as the advice of NUMEROUS other posters on this site. So, if you want to be critical of someone, don't blame the "new guy" who is an admitted novice seeking advice. Blame the countless other posters on this forum who would seem to know more than I who all advocate playing very nice with the licensing LEOs.
Finally, on the advice of my own attorney, who also happens to practice in my town (Fitchburg), he told me that given that I have absolutely no questionable things on my background I will have zero difficulty obtaining my permit.
So, I'm not sure where your obvious misguided anger comes from. That said, I am willing to accept your apology when you are ready.
Anyone else notice that under Scrivener's name it says Banned?
Good riddance. I hope it's permanent.
This board is a wealth of wonderful information and it's been great to be able to have discussions with like-minded people. I found Scrivener's manner to be completely counter-productive and definitely bad for business around here. I know a number of people who refused to join because they hated being beaten up by that guy.
He's the most uncivil, argumentative, rude, condescending, and overbearing bully I have ever seen on any message board. I'm shocked that he'd behave that way, given that his real name and occupation is all over the board. The Board of Bar Overseers hates it when lawyers are abusive to clients or prospective clients, so I always thought that was really a bad move on his part to be so miserable to everyone here.
This is a DISCUSSION board. He went way over the line with his scolding and his abuse.
I might expect his behavior from a snooty Harvard lawyer, but I certainly would never expect it from a graduate of the New England School of Law.
I hope it's permanent, and I hope this will finally put an end to the unbearable abuse that other posters and I have endured.
To celebrate, I'll be putting my membership check in the mail tomorrow morning.
Kind of makes you wonder why the PD insisted that the references go through the hassle of finding a notary when they're not going to believe the seal, anyway.Getting back to the original idea behind the thread, I thought I would add that my SECOND N-O-T-A-R-I-Z-E-D reference was also called to confirm that they are who they claim and that they wrote the reference.
Getting back to the original idea behind the thread, I thought I would add that my SECOND N-O-T-A-R-I-Z-E-D reference was also called to confirm that they are who they claim and that they wrote the reference.
So, now I'm obviously waiting by the phone like a teenager for the licensing LEO to call and tell me to pick up my newly minted Class A LTC!!! hopefully...