I can only give you anecdotal experience. When I lived in NYC I had
enough issues with their long gun licensing procedure; I never got
around to handguns (but someone gave me two and I hid them in a bank
vault for years). A couple of years ago my son-in-law allowed his home
permit to expire. He had to turn his SIG 9mm in to the police. He
never thought he would see it again. Admittedly, some of the problem
was his own failure to exercise due diligence but the hoops he went
through were amazing and formidable. I think it took two years until he
got the permit reissued and, believe it or not, the police had his gun
waiting for him!
But here is another fact of interest - every trip I make to Manhattan to
visit family usually gives me time to meander around the Beretta shop on
Madison Avenue. They will not even show you a handgun unless you can
show them a valid permit of one permutation or another.
Here is another interesting fact - my twin brother lives in north
central New Jersey. He did finally get a permit that allows him to buy
a handgun in New Jersey - only he cannot find a gun shop anywhere near
his home to make the purchase! The permit expires after 90 days so he
keeps having to renew it until he gets around to finding a place to buy
a gun - the stores he found sell rifles only, not handguns, and they
won't even let me have my local FFL send one up there for him and all
they have to do is the transfer paperwork and charge a fee!
***GRJ***
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From: "Volokh, Eugene" <[email protected]>
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Subject: In which U.S. jurisdictions is it hard to legally own a
handgun?
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Folks: I'm looking for an authoritative list of U.S. jurisdictions in which
legally owning a handgun (not getting a license to carry, but being able to
legally own a handgun in one's home) is quite difficult - for instance, because
there's a discretionary licensing scheme, a long (more than a month) waiting
period, a huge amount of hassle, or very high fees (say, above $100). By way
of comparison, I know California is a relatively high-regulation jurisdiction,
but when I bought my handgun in the late 1990s, I basically had to wait 21 days
(I think), pay a relatively modest fee (I forget what it was), and take a
simple written test. I'm looking for jurisdictions that impose considerably
greater constraints than this.
I'm giving a talk on guns in America, and I wanted to draw a handgun ownership
laws map of the U.S. comparable to the right-to-carry laws maps that we've all
seen. I don't want to score any political points; I just wanted to accurately
and simply portray where handgun home ownership is quite difficult and where
it's not that difficult. Many thanks for any help you can provide,
Eugene
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