nikogto
Regular Member
Been hovering over this forum for about a year, lots of good info here. I recently wanted to start conceal carry, so I got a couple pistol purchase permits, bought a couple new Smith & Wesson's, went to the CCW class and turned in my application at local sheriffs dept. Was notified by email a couple days later my conceal carry was denied. What I don't understand is, they allowed me to purchase pistols, and know it's a open carry state but won't allow me to conceal it. Kind of frustrating as I really wanted to conceal to protect myself and family when we are out and about. Especially when my and the wife are out on the motorcycle a lot in the summer. My reason for denial was a class A1 misdemeanor a few years back. I have 3 boys, 21, 18, and 15 year old. At that time my youngest was VERY bad in school, grades were crap, always in trouble for "goofing off" in class and so on, I lost my temper one night and he ended up with a mark on his face, which I didn't notice right away but the school did the next day. So basically I had to go to court because the officer I talked to said he was going to charge me (no arrest) basically hitting my child, found guilty and had 1 year probation, paid a fine. But now, it's haunting me to get a ccw permit. I looked into getting it expunged, but all the reading I'm doing online says an A1 misdemeanor you can not. So I guess my only option is OC. Unless anyone has any ideas to share with me on this. As far as OC on a motorcycle, anyone here doing that? Thanks for any info or help in this.