Your first license to carry, what state and what first carry piece.

[target64]

California 1983
S & W model 19
4 in blued

 

[bobjones223]

Indiana and a Browning HP 9mm

 

[Kirk Freeman]

!980 (Yea I am OLD), TEXAS

Texas? 1980? How?

Ejamakate me please.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I was 18, 1987, Indiana, Colt Combat Elite that I got at 15 and Colt Detective Special. I got a Glock for 18th birthday, but never carried it.

Ted Blocker holsters.

 

[Pembertont]

Indiana 2016
Beretta 92fs...that didn’t last long though. It prints too easily so moved to a Glock g43

 

[Skullglide]

Indiana 1994, I was 18. Rossi .357 revolver in a well used Bell charter Oak holster.

 

[cobber]

Late bloomer @ about 43 yoa. Indiana 1999, Izhevsk IJ-70 (Makarov) in 9x18. Still have it, but have graduated to CZs.

 

[volksjager]

IN 94, Ugly AF semi-auto Ruger .45

 

[spencer rifle]

Indiana 1986
S&W 469 - sold it after the kids arrived.

 

[STEEL CORE]

Kirk, FT. Bliss TX, i980, I was a soldier, a Sergeant, Military Policeman, I had both a young wife and son, I applied for and received a CCW, had to go to court and appear before a Judge as I remember.
My Uncle Sam, let me carry many a weapon around the world by then, but in 1980, I got my first Handgun permit, on a budget I bought two pistols, a Jennings.22 then a Raven .25, to protect myself and my family, that's my story.

 

[Dark Star]

Wait wait, so it was really tough to get a carry permit in Texas back then? When did that change?

 

[cedartop]

1991, MI. This was before the new CPL and most people couldn't get what they called a general carry permit. I got one because I was working at the Indiana State Prison. Carried a S&W 4006.

 

[ftbstrd]

1995 S&W 40VE and Beretta Model 1934

 

[rhino]

Kirk, FT. Bliss TX, i980, I was a soldier, a Sergeant, Military Policeman, I had both a young wife and son, I applied for and received a CCW, had to go to court and appear before a Judge as I remember.
My Uncle Sam, let me carry many a weapon around the world by then, but in 1980, I got my first Handgun permit, on a budget I bought two pistols, a Jennings.22 then a Raven .25, to protect myself and my family, that's my story.

Dr. Suzanna Gratia and the other activists in Texas from the 1990s would be very surprised by this. The first concealed handgun license law in Texas was passed by the legislature and signed into law by then Governor George W. Bush in 1995.

Such licenses/permits were not available in Texas prior to that.

Did you receive some kind of special privilege and documentation because of your military duties?

 

[Goodcat]

2009 Indiana. Started with Glock 26 back then.

 

[sparkyfender]

Hmm. Have to think.

Okay, sometime back in the 80s, I suddenly developed an unexected need to have a personal protection weapon on my person. My father had loaned me a S&W 15, but had asked for it back a couple weeks before. Bummer. Went to Wal Mart that evening, gun shops were closed, and perused the handguns. Yeah, that long ago. REALLY wanted the shiny Colt Officer's 1911 in the case, sadly, not enough folding green in my wallet. Bought a Rossi 851 revolver in .38 special instead, along with a holster and two boxes of ammo. Not top tier, but the gun worked, surprisingly well, and I was armed.

I got a License to Carry Handgun sometime later. Trying to remember the year. ??

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Kirk, FT. Bliss TX, i980, I was a soldier, a Sergeant, Military Policeman, I had both a young wife and son, I applied for and received a CCW, had to go to court and appear before a Judge as I remember.
My Uncle Sam, let me carry many a weapon around the world by then, but in 1980, I got my first Handgun permit, on a budget I bought two pistols, a Jennings.22 then a Raven .25, to protect myself and my family, that's my story.

I was completely unaware that this was possible pre-1996, but am not licensed in Texas.

I'll start digging into it.

 

[Usmccookie]

Indiana 2015
Ruger sr9
Love that gun

 

[flatlander]

1982
Indiana
Customized (By Don Peters R.I.P.) Colt Series 70

Bob

 

[farmerdan]

1989, Indiana. First gun I carried was a Ruger P85