Good News For Arlington, VA CHP Holders, Hopefully…

By Philip Van Cleave

Virginia – -(Ammoland.com)- Arlington County Virginia currently holds the dubious record for taking the longest time to issue CHPs in the Commonwealth.

In fact, it is so bad that when a person applies for a new or a renewed permit, the Circuit Court Clerk’s office will tell the applicant up front that their permit will not be ready in 45 days! The applicant gets a temporary permit after the 45 days are up, with their actual permit being issued in around 60 days or more!

Last Wednesday I arranged a meeting with the Arlington County Circuit Court Clerk, Paul Ferguson, and the Arlington County Commonwealth Attorney, Theo Stamos, at the Arlington County Court House Complex to address the issue.

Both brought their assistants who deal with issuing permits to the meeting.

I had no idea what to expect, considering that the Arlington County government is generally not all that friendly to gun owners.

However, my reading was that both Ms. Stamos and Mr. Ferguson sincerely wanted to get to the bottom of the situation.

The meeting lasted an hour.

I started by pointing out that Fairfax has a vastly …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand