Concealed Weapons Permit in the State of Montana.
Montana Statues 45-8-315 through 45-8-328 (valid only in the state of Montana)
Application fee is $50, payable when you submit your application. You must also have a Montana Drivers Licence or ID card and proof of weapons training.
For Weapons training use:
- Military discharge form DD 214 (to request duplicate call 755-3795)
- Hunter safety certificate (to request duplicate call 444-3188)
- A concealed weapons permit from another state may be considered.
- Any other weapons training certificate from a certified instructor.
A concealed weapon includes any weapon that is wholly or partially covered by clothing or wearing apparel. A permit is required if you will be concealing a weapon in an incorporated town (city). A weapon is dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, slingshot, sword cane, bill, knuckles made of any hard substance, knife having a blade 4 inches or longer, razor, not including safety razor, or other deadly weapon. If you are issued a permit you may not:
[list][*]Carry a concealed weapon while under the influence of an intoxicating substance.[*]Carry a concealed weapon in a building owned or leased by the Federal, state, or local government, a bank, credit union, saveings & loan institution, or similar institution, a room in which alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed and consumed.
You will be ineligible it recieve a permit if you:
- Are ineligible under Montana or Federal law to own, possess, or recieve a firearm.
- Have been Charged/awaiting judgment in any state/federal crime, punishable by incarceration for 1 year.
- Have been convicted in any state or federal court in any state of a crime punishable by more then 1 year or incarceration or, regardless of the sentence that may be imposed, a crime that includes as an element of the crime an act, attempted act, or threat of intentional homicide, violence, bodily or serious bodily harm, unlawful restraint, sexual abuse, or sexual intercourse or contact without consent;
- Have been convicted carrying a concealed weapon while under then influence OR in a prohibited place, unless you have been pardoned or 5 years have elapsed since the date of the conviction.
- have a warrant of any state or the federal government out for your arrest.
- Have been adjudicated in a criminal or civil proceeding in a court of any state or in a federal court to be an unlawful user of an intoxicating substance and are under a court order of imprisonment or other incarceration, probation, suspended, or deferred inposition of sentance, treatment or education, or other conditions of release or are otherwise under state supervision.
- Have been adjundicated in a criminal or civil proceeding in a court of any state or in a federal court to be mentally ill, mentally defective, or mentally disabled and are subject to a disopsition order of that court.
- Were dishonorably discharged from the United States armed forces.
The sheriff may deny an applicant a permit to carry a concealed weapon if the sheriff has reasonable cause to believe that the applicant is mentally ill, mentally defective, or mentally disabled or otherwise may be a threat to the peace and good order of the community to the extent that the applicant should not be allowed to carry a concealed weapon.
A person with a permit to carry a concealed weapon who changes county of residence shall within 10 days of the change inform the sheriffs of both the old and new counties of residence of this change of residence ant that he holds the permit. If his residence changes either from or to a city or town with a police force, he shall also inform the chief of police in each of those cities or towns.
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