Since having moved to NYS I've been kinda stuck on a basic task that's...well...embarassing yet essential for being able to work within the system of things here. How in the heck do you ask someone to be your reference for your pistol license and after how much time? The odds were darn near zero I'd know people in my county in advance of moving here since I moved from the other side of the country (and before that the deep south for the other 28 years of my life!) and on account of my wife's new job. This is one awkward question to say the least when meeting new people--I think propositioning someone is easier, and at very least more easily understood and there's something obviously in it for them--but waiting any longer when the wait's already half a year or longer is just plain ridiculous. This Sullivan Law garbage is aggrevating, degrading, and highly unusual to say the least.
So, what do you say? I guess at the range is a good place to bring it up? What exactly am I asking of people? Is there anything they should expect to come from this, like a phone call from the sheriff's office? And is it expected to send thank you notes afterwards, and if so is it after the notarizing, after the application is submitted, or after I get the license? Seriously! I've been with my wife for 5 1/2 years now so I haven't been on a first date in so long and this is exactly what it seems like. I've gotten completely dull on how to ask unusual questions for personal favors. And even then there weren't any forms involved...and thank God never the sheriff or a judge either!
I'd sure rather be discussing how the trigger pull is on a couple of Sigs and 1911's I'm considering purchasing, but thanks to that stupid thug from Tammany Hall a century ago and the goons of NYC and Albany upholding his nonsense this is where I'm stuck at right now, held hostage by an idiotic law and separated from my pistols like a child custody battle.
So, what do you say? I guess at the range is a good place to bring it up? What exactly am I asking of people? Is there anything they should expect to come from this, like a phone call from the sheriff's office? And is it expected to send thank you notes afterwards, and if so is it after the notarizing, after the application is submitted, or after I get the license? Seriously! I've been with my wife for 5 1/2 years now so I haven't been on a first date in so long and this is exactly what it seems like. I've gotten completely dull on how to ask unusual questions for personal favors. And even then there weren't any forms involved...and thank God never the sheriff or a judge either!
I'd sure rather be discussing how the trigger pull is on a couple of Sigs and 1911's I'm considering purchasing, but thanks to that stupid thug from Tammany Hall a century ago and the goons of NYC and Albany upholding his nonsense this is where I'm stuck at right now, held hostage by an idiotic law and separated from my pistols like a child custody battle.