How much is a gun permit in North Carolina?

Answer 1

Which permit are you talking about? Handgun purchase permits are $5/each. If you're talking about a concealed carry permit, it's $10 for fingerprinting and $80 for the background check. The concealed carry course, you take and pay for on your own, and that costs however much they charge... if I remember correctly, PDHSC on Tryon Rd. in Garner charges either $120 or $150 for theirs. If Charles Lett in Holly Springs is still giving the course, he charges $60 for his. I don't have his number offhand, but he keeps business cards at Jim's Gun Shop on Woodland Rd. in Raleigh (it's in the vicinity of the Target on US70 in Garner, near the Raleigh/Garner boundary). email me if you want, and I'll give you the phone number for Jim's so that he can pass that phone number on to you.

To apply for a handgun purchase permit, you go to the county courthouse in Smithfield. Go through the main doors, back to the Sheriff's Office, and you tell the receptionist that you're applying for handgun permits. You'll fill out your information, they'll do a background check (typically takes four to seven days), and, after you get approved, you go back and you can buy up to five permits initially.

For a concealed carry permit, you take the course, take your paperwork from the course to the Sheriff's Office, along with your money for fees. You'll be fingerprinted, fill out the paperwork, and they'll do the background check... takes about a month for the CCW. Once you get a NC CCW, it serves as your pistol purchase permit, and you won't need to buy the purchase permits.

A NC CCW is valid for five years.

If you're talking about NFA Tax Stamps for full auto firearms, suppressors, short-barreled shotguns and rifles, AOWs, destructive devices, etc., without having an FFL and a range to rent weapons out at, it's almost unheard of in NC - especially in the counties of Cumberland, Wake, and Johnston (in the case of the latter, Steve Bizzel himself openly admits that he doesn't do it because the News & Observer has always had it in for him, and would only use that to attack him further).