An NRA-certified instructor shows Connecticut residents how to find pistol permit applications on their town's website. He walks through Torrington and Harwinton as examples, noting that each town adds its own requirements beyond the state baseline. You'll need a certificate of competency, three letters of recommendation, photo ID, and fingerprints.
All right, so you want to learn how to get your pistol permit here in Connecticut. As long as you're a resident, you can follow one of these two ways. First is go to your local police department. The town next to us is Torrington, so if I, I looked for Torrington Police Department and then I am clicking on Torrington Police Department. Make sure that it's Torrington, Connecticut. Then you browse about here to try to figure out what you're looking for. Oh, look at that! There is pistol permit application process and instructions. Kind of guess it's kind of common, right? So here's what they're telling you. You already must be a resident of the city of Torrington, and you're going to get a certificate of competency. This is the NRA Rifle Association Certified Firearms Instructor. That would be me. I am one of the people you can come to for, for training. There is a place on the website that also tells you where there is more training. 3 letters of recommendation. Yeah, we'll talk about that in class. Photo ID, naturalization papers, application fingerprint card. So I'm not sure this is true any longer in that, uh, they have you do it online versus having a card, but you do still have to go in there. So here it is. Every town is slightly different. Some towns ask for stuff like this, which is not required by the state. It is a request that the towns make. And, uh, like I said, we'll talk about that during class if you'd like to discuss that, because it's not required by the state. So there is an example of if you have a police department, look up the pistol permit application process. Not all police departments will have it on their website, but most do. Now, if you're in a town like Harlington, where I currently am, and you look up your main whatever this is called, your main site. Harwinton has a site. Our first selectman is who actually deals with the pistol permits, and so you click on pistol permit application and instruction, and here it tells you what you need. I do know from talking to the first selectman and his assistant that for the fingerprinting, they ask you to go into the office One of the challenges they've had is that people are doing fingerprinting and it goes to Torrington and not to Harlington. So, um, this is it. There you have it. Pretty quick, pretty easy. Look in your town and look for pistol permit. That's pretty much it. Come to me, get a class, and I will see you on your way.
