I moved from New Hampshire to South Carolina.
New Hampshire is (was) $10 for shall issue with a 14 day (actually enforced) maximum. South Carolina is shall issue 90 days (not enforced, so not adhered to) maximum.
But first you need to take the stupid class. I had carried daily for almost thirty years but still had to take their stupid class. First, find a class and sign up. There seems to be two kinds of classes. Those with a waiting list and those that wait for enough people to sign up before scheduling. Sign up and wait, peasant.
Then take the class. In their benevolence, the state dropped the requirement of a minimum eight hours for the class, so mine was only ten and a half hours each of our lives we will never get back. This includes how to tell the difference between a pistol and a revolver. Pay close attention here, it will be on the test. How did I carry so long without knowing that? Then I had to listen to some guru explain how Crimson Trace lasers are so bad because the batteries will eventually die. I've been carrying longer than he has been breathing. Get back to me when your eyes are 50+ years old. Let's see how you feel about it then. Much of the class and test is devoted to thoroughly indoctrinating you in all the places the legislature has decreed to be Constitution free zones where your permit is no good. Then comes the shooting test. Ray Charles could pass that test. Really. The class was $65. $75 if you want them to take the required two sets of fingerprints. That's $150 for my wife and I.
After the class, you send in your application, fingerprints and bank check or money order (no credit cards or personal checks accepted) for $50 to the Statzpolezei to wait 90 days (or more if they feel like it) to run the same background check that takes about 120 seconds if they notice a taillight out while you're driving.
Then my application gets rejected, one of the prints on one of the cards is not perfectly clear. I have to run out and get any two sets taken at the Sheriff department. Free, stop in any time during normal business hours.
Resend full application and the clock starts at 90 days again.
Total cost for two - $250.
Total time elapsed - about eight months.
What happens to the poor schmuck who just doesn't have an extra $250? I guess you're just SOL!
What happens to someone who never saw a need for it before, but all of a sudden has a real need for it right now? Join the guy who doesn't have an extra $250 in that line over there. That line leads to the showers.
Land of the free, home of the brave.
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