Today, just one week after my 21st birthday, I went through the process of fingerprinting and photographing for my CHL. Went to the County Sheriff's building, went through metal detector, and went to the record's office. Gave them a check for 65 dollars, got a reciept. Took it and went upstairs to the CHL office. Since the 11:00 appointment didn't show up, I got mine done 30 minutes early.
Went into a room, got my photo taken, gotten my fingerprints done via one of those electronic scanning machines (very advanced, and very cool looking, too. Will be using this for my future CHL applications for other states).
All and all, it took 15 minutes to do. Tried to also get a photo of a blank copy of a CHL, but it looks like there is no unified permit in Oregon...all of them look slightly different by county.
While leaving the office and heading to the elevator, I happened to catch Robert Gordon, the new sheriff of Washington county. I managed to get a few moments of his time, and I spoke to him in specific to the issuance of non-resident contigious state CHL's. I told him that due to current policy, a person living in Vancouver would have a difficult time being able to carry their handgun in the state, since Oregon has no reciprocity or recognition of permits.
Gordon seemed to me geniunely concerned about the issue, and that though he would review on a case by case basis each permit from a non-resident, that is only because of the policy in effect currently. He seemed open to a change of policy, say, if a person has a permit from his home state (ie, a Washington resident has a washington CPL), that self defense is enough of a reason. Gordon also made the comment that he's had almost no problems with CHL holders, and that they were among the most law abiding. He also asked why non-residents haven't tried Multnomah (Portland) or Clackamas counties (Oregon City).
I pointed out that Clackamas won't budge on the issue, and Multnomah's authorities are only issuing permits begrudingly to residents, and that the sheriff there has been outspoken in his opposition to citizens carrying guns, whereas he basically refuses all applications.
I'm meeting with the head of the CHL unit next week, to see if a reasonable and fair policy can be fleshed out. At the moment, Clatsop county is the only county I know that will issue to non-residents with just self defense and home state permit. My intent is to get Washington county to do the same thing, as it did before now-former Sheriff Splinden took over. If things work out, Washington state residents will have a new and now much closer place to apply.
Went into a room, got my photo taken, gotten my fingerprints done via one of those electronic scanning machines (very advanced, and very cool looking, too. Will be using this for my future CHL applications for other states).
All and all, it took 15 minutes to do. Tried to also get a photo of a blank copy of a CHL, but it looks like there is no unified permit in Oregon...all of them look slightly different by county.
While leaving the office and heading to the elevator, I happened to catch Robert Gordon, the new sheriff of Washington county. I managed to get a few moments of his time, and I spoke to him in specific to the issuance of non-resident contigious state CHL's. I told him that due to current policy, a person living in Vancouver would have a difficult time being able to carry their handgun in the state, since Oregon has no reciprocity or recognition of permits.
Gordon seemed to me geniunely concerned about the issue, and that though he would review on a case by case basis each permit from a non-resident, that is only because of the policy in effect currently. He seemed open to a change of policy, say, if a person has a permit from his home state (ie, a Washington resident has a washington CPL), that self defense is enough of a reason. Gordon also made the comment that he's had almost no problems with CHL holders, and that they were among the most law abiding. He also asked why non-residents haven't tried Multnomah (Portland) or Clackamas counties (Oregon City).
I pointed out that Clackamas won't budge on the issue, and Multnomah's authorities are only issuing permits begrudingly to residents, and that the sheriff there has been outspoken in his opposition to citizens carrying guns, whereas he basically refuses all applications.
I'm meeting with the head of the CHL unit next week, to see if a reasonable and fair policy can be fleshed out. At the moment, Clatsop county is the only county I know that will issue to non-residents with just self defense and home state permit. My intent is to get Washington county to do the same thing, as it did before now-former Sheriff Splinden took over. If things work out, Washington state residents will have a new and now much closer place to apply.