Good News: Virginia State Police Caught Up on Entering CHP Info the VCIN Database
(except for 3 localities)
Virginia – -(AmmoLand.com)- Last year, during the General Assembly session, Virginia Citizens Defense League learned that the Virginia State Police (VSP) was almost 6 months behind in entering CHP holder information into the Virginia VCIN database. VCIN (Virginia Criminal Information Network) is where the police check to see if a person has any warrants or convictions. It also flags whether a person has a concealed handgun permit and whether it is still valid.
The problem was a severe one. If you renewed or got your first permit in April, let’s say, and you were pulled over for a traffic ticket in July, if the officer checked VCIN, he was told that your CHP was expired or didn’t exist, respectively! That would put the CHP holder in a bad situation that was not his fault.
Virginia Citizens Defense League raised hell about that last year as soon as we found out.
Earlier this week I had a chat with VSP and found out that the backlog is now gone and has been since January. What happened was that VSP installed a new electronic system, which allows …Read the Rest
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