Nevada Will No Longer Recognize Utah and Florida Right-to-Carry Permits
Via Greg, it looks like Nevada is dropping reciprocity after their audit of the handgun carry process of other states.
Nevada is weird. First few times I went, there was no reciprocity with TN. Last couple of times, there was.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:25 am
From what I seem to remember, Nevada requires registration of the handguns you carry. The other states don’t, so that’s probably the reason for this (which is stupid). I’m surprised TN has reciprocity though. I’ll have to look that one up to see if it actually is the case still.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:35 am
No. Just Vegas. ANd I hear they scrapped that law too.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Ah. Good.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:53 am
The time before last that I was in Las Vegas, my friend who lives there wanted to buy a pistol and a rifle and wanted my advice. That’s part of the reason I went out there. Anyways, after a bit of research, it turns out that Clark County, which Las Vegas is in, apparently has their own set of laws and rules that are much stricter than the rest of the state. The state passed a law against preemption, but only after most of these laws were already in effect, so they’re grandfathered in. I had a FL concealed carry permit, and I brought out my 2.5″ S&W Model 19 because I knew we had reciprocity in NV…
But not in Clark County.
In Clark County, in order to own a handgun, you have to apply for a permit to own a handgun and wait three business days to get your first handgun. After that, there’s no wait. But this applies even to people from OUT OF STATE who under state law can legally carry, but only if they turn in their guns to the Clark County Sheriff’s office for THREE DAYS in order to get the stupid Clark County pistol license. Otherwise, they’ll be able to charge you with illegal possession of a pistol and gun trafficking. North Las Vegas (Ghetto Vegas) does not allow concealed carry AT ALL.
I was only going to be in town for 5 days, and I decided that it wasn’t worth the time, money, hassle and trouble, so I went without carrying on my person. You can still have a loaded gun in the car. My friend has decided to move to TN, and I will remain in FL. Fuck Nevada.
June 26th, 2009 at 10:30 am
We will continue to get jerked around as long as we continue to go to vacation spots that don’t respect our right to defend ourselves. Don’t go. And tell them why.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I’m still scratching my head as to why Nevada cares how long Florida issues their permits for….
I mean I can see the whole live-fire training bit (tho for my FL permit all I had to do was shoot a blank round at a dumpster….sketchy!) but why would anybody care if the permit was for 1 year or for 50?
Do they not honor my NH permit because it’s wicked fekin’ cheap?
June 26th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Seems to me,the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution says it doesn’t matter if Nevada grants reciprocity. If they have to recognize your driver’s license–and driving isn’t even a right–then I think they have to recognize your gun permits.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Driver licenses are recognized state by state. Like gun licenses. The states have individually agreed among themselves to recognize each other’s driver licenses. Full faith and credit had nothing to do with it.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Nevada, at this juncture, DOES NOT have reciprocity with any other State. Nevada does RECOGNIZE certain out-of-state permits, but there is no official reciprocity. We’ve been trying to change the attitude of the legislature to get reciprocity, but certain senior legislators(mostly from Clark County/”East LA”)and Law Enforcement keep “shooting it down.”
We keep tryin’.
/sennin/
June 26th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Keep fighting. Mississippi law enforcement “interpreted” a not too bad law into a very bad law.
According to the actual law, you could carry a gun on your dashboard, or in any other place clearly visible through a window. You could store it “in a safe manner.” If you regularly traveled more than 30 miles from your home, carried large sums of money or other valuables, or had been threatened, you could carry openly, concealed, or however.
But according to law enforcement’s interpretation the only way you could store a gun was on a glass topped coffee table so a “law enforcement officer” could get down on his allfours and inspect both sides without touching “the weapon.”
As the then Sunflower County sheriff explained to the Legislature, the only “legal way to carry any gun” was to put a pencil, dowel, or broomstick in the muzzle and carry the pencil, etc..
And any “illegality” resulted in instant confiscation. The sher’f did not say that ownership instantly transferred to the confiscating officer, but that was almost always the case.
Yes – it resulted in exactly what any sensible person would think it would. Eventually we won most of what we wanted from the Legislature – and the world did not come to an end. But confiscating guns for fun and profit did.
Stranger
June 27th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
NV has been getting over-run with CA escapees. Unfortunately, they are bringing their ‘mannerisms’ with them…