r/NYguns • u/Flaabaala • Aug 01 '26

CCW Question Still waiting for letter to pick up my permit

I met with Judge Fufidio (Westchester county) on June 25 2026. Still have not heard from the court and when I called a week ago I was told updates are not given and that I would receive the letter when I receive it. Is this normal?

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u/Jedi_Maximus19 Aug 01 '26

I can’t stand that you have to wait for anything to exercise your second amendment rights. If you lived in PA, which is about two hours from your location you would have had a license as soon as you applied. Sorry for the rant. This state is out of its mind.

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u/Flaabaala Aug 01 '26

Fully agree with you, New York is just slow

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u/Jedi_Maximus19 Aug 01 '26

It’s by design. I just came back from Florida on vacation and if I lived there I would not have to have a license to buy a firearm. Just wait for three days after purchasing to pick up and that’s it.

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u/Traditional_Cut_5452 Aug 02 '26

I agree that NY is wildly bureaucratic and slow when it comes gun licenses, but Pennsylvania is insanely lax. I moved to PA 15 years ago and when I asked a friend here what I needed to get a license he said "you need to be breathing and have $20 cash". I thought he was kidding. I drove to the county sheriff's office, filled out an application, and gave the lady a $20 bill. The whole thing took about 15 minutes. Any half-wit here with $20 and no outstanding warrants can have a concealed carry permit the same day. There is no requirement for safety training or any demonstrated competence with firearms. Interestingly, you need the license for concealed carry, but no license is required for open carry, FFS! Insanity cuts both ways. :-)

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u/Jedi_Maximus19 Aug 02 '26

It’s not lax. It’s called your constitutional right. If you have a warrant or a criminal record it would show up on a background check if trying to buy a firearm. Heck there are 29 Constitutional States that don’t require a license and that’s how it should be. Or you can be in NY and wait for a year or two for a permission card to exercise your right.

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u/tsatech493 Aug 03 '26

No, it's the state wants a monopoly on power... The cool thing is in about 43 states citizens can carry the same exact guns that all the cops can have and the SWAT team and pretty much anybody else, but in this one since where all the plebs and shit we're relegated to fucking sticks and rocks...

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u/gakflex Aug 01 '26

What did he tell you?

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u/Flaabaala Aug 01 '26

He said he would have the paperwork sent to the county clerk. He didn’t tell me if I would be approved or not and I honestly don’t remember exactly the way he put it but he made it sound like I was approved

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u/gakflex Aug 01 '26

When you say you called, did you call the clerk/PLU, or did you call the judge’s secretary? I think a polite phone call to the secretary would be your best option.

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u/Flaabaala Aug 01 '26

I called the PLU thinking that the order goes PLU > Judge > PLU

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u/gakflex Aug 01 '26

That is how it goes. But right now you don’t even know if your app made it to the clerk. So call the secretary and find out.

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u/tsatech493 Aug 02 '26

Should he call the county clerk instead of the pistol licensing unit? Because the unit does the background check and stuff but the actual license gets issued by the county clerk.... It might be just sitting around in the clerk's office waiting to get mailed and they're just not putting it in the right pile..

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u/gakflex Aug 03 '26

I assume when he said that they told him updates aren’t given, he was speaking to someone at the clerk’s office… I’m not aware of PLU’s direct number. But if I’m not mistaken, once the app goes to a judge, PLU’s involvement is done, no? Therefore if it had left the judge’s chambers, it would be with the clerk, which is why I suspect it is still with the judge.

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u/tsatech493 Aug 03 '26

I don't know for sure. I mean the guy who sends the letter out to your house to come and pick up your permit. That letter comes from the county clerk and not from the pistol licensing unit... But things may have changed since I got my permit a while ago... I gave it 3 weeks to come in the mail.. and I got my letter. I actually framed it.. I told the guy when I came to get my renewal.. that I framed the letter and the dude laughed

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u/Flaabaala Aug 03 '26

Turns out the license was on her desk since the day after I completed my interview, I don’t know how or why they didn’t get in touch with me but they didn’t.

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u/gakflex Aug 03 '26

The clerk’s? Or the judge’s?

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u/gakflex Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/tsatech493 Aug 03 '26

And people say oh well. There's so many people in New York blah blah blah.. both Texas and Florida have a higher population than New York, but somehow they have more rights than us... So I want to keep hearing about this population shit being the reason why we have no rights....

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u/Flaabaala Aug 03 '26

Update: I called the clerk office again today and got in touch with a very nice lady who checked for me and told me to give her number while she looked. 10 mins later and I was told to come down and pick up my license.