CCW renewal is a hassle

[SlammerG_89]

Should i be calling the sheriff's office every week and check on it. Or see if they can make a note to call me when the license comes in?

 

[Silveravnt]

You've lost sight of the big picture. The entire licensing requirement is an infringement of the second amendment.

THIS! There is no other right in the Bill O Rights that you must pay to exercise.

 

[grizzly97]

Should i be calling the sheriff's office every week and check on it. Or see if they can make a note to call me when the license comes in?

Call them! A buddy of mine waited for "them" to call, and it took about 6 months before he decided to call the sheriff's office. He got no letter from OSBI and no call from the Sheriff's. They could care less to call you. When he finally went up there to get it, they said it had been there a few months. Still no letter from OSBI.

 

[vvvvvvv]

Should i be calling the sheriff's office every week and check on it. Or see if they can make a note to call me when the license comes in?

I'd wait until about the 6th week. People were reporting a while back 30-day processing times after cleared payment once OSBI got past the Obamascare backlog.

 

[HiredHand]

I cut/pasted this from the OSBI website. http://www.ok.gov/osbi/Concealed_Weapons_Licensing/Check_the_Status_of_Your_Application/index.html

NOTICE: The County Sheriff’s office has 14 days to complete a local background check from the time the Initial Application is submitted. The application is forwarded to the OSBI AFTER the local search is complete. Per Oklahoma State Statue, the OSBI has 90 days to process an application from the day all required information is received by the OSBI. This includes a good set of fingerprint cards. If it has been more than 115 days since the application was submitted to the County Sheriff’s Office and you would like to know the status of your application please e-mail your request to the OSBI by clicking the link below. Conceal Carry Application Sta

 

[_CY_]

did mine for 10yrs

Dale00, why didn't you go with the 10 year renewal if its such a hassle?

 

[Dale00]

Cy - As I wrote in post #8:

As far as not getting the ten year license, maybe the people of the state with come to their senses and change this law sometime in the next 5 years. I remember people being excited when they announced the 10 year option for twice the cost of the 5 year license. To me it's just one more sign of bureaucratic arrogance: the state is charging twice as much for the same cost of processing the paperwork. They are supposed to be just covering their costs, but instead are looking at the whole thing as profit center and expecting us to be grateful about it!

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Too many of us feel happy about having a permit. Beyond the pettiness of the bureaucratic process, it is an affront to our citizenship to have to pay and be vetted to exercise a right. Until we as gun owners get our heads on straight, we are never going to be a constitution carry state like Arizona, Vermont and Alaska.

 

[_CY_]

of course you are correct.... but I'm also a realist .... until if/when that day happens, darn happy to have my permit.

Too many of us feel happy about having a permit. Beyond the pettiness of the bureaucratic process, it is an affront to our citizenship to have to pay and be vetted to exercise a right. Until we as gun owners get our heads on straight, we are never going to be a constitution carry state like Arizona, Vermont and Alaska.

 

[dutchwrangler]

Too many of us feel happy about having a permit. Beyond the pettiness of the bureaucratic process, it is an affront to our citizenship to have to pay and be vetted to exercise a right. Until we as gun owners get our heads on straight, we are never going to be a constitution carry state like Arizona, Vermont and Alaska.

The simple reason Oklahoma will never have constitutional carry is because of the little word but:

The right of a citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person, or property, or in aid of the civil power, when thereunto legally summoned, shall never be prohibited; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the Legislature from regulating the carrying of weapons.

That little word negates everything preceeding it. The mere mention of "regulating" is a contradiction to the right of bearing arms.

The fact that a resident of Oklahoma must seek permission of state government to have a CCW permit is in fact confirmation that carrying a firearm is not viewed as an unalienable right in this state.

The only way to get constitutional carry is to change our state constitution to this:

The right of the people to bear arms in defense of themselves shall not be infringed

It will never happen.

 

[grizzly97]

The simple reason Oklahoma will never have constitutional carry is because of the little word but:



That little word negates everything preceeding it. The mere mention of "regulating" is a contradiction to the right of bearing arms.

The fact that a resident of Oklahoma must seek permission of state government to have a CCW permit is in fact confirmation that carrying a firearm is not viewed as an unalienable right in this state.

The only way to get constitutional carry is to change our state constitution to this:



It will never happen.

Sadly, I believe you are correct.