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Accomplished Advocate
Just saw an ad for this website on search engine results. I found it interesting because it has absolutely no information on the website identifying the business that operates it. Even in their "terms and conditions" page in which most websites will identify a legal entity for contractual reasons, theirs only identifies them as "the owner of this website". A glance at the WhoIs data indicates that the owner is as follows:
Registrant Organization: Privacy Protect, LLC (PrivacyProtect.org)
Registrant Street: 10 Corporate Drive
Registrant City: Burlington
Registrant State/Province: MA
Registrant Postal Code: 01803
That's one of those "anonymizer" services that keeps people from knowing who's really behind the website. Who'd send money to who-knows-who having something to do with a company in Massachussetts to get help with a Va. CHP application?
Here's another item of interest: nowhere on the site do they describe in detail what it is, exactly, that they do. Obviously, they can't do the fingerprinting or filing of an application, since those thing have to be done by local police or sheriff, and in-person or by an attorney licensed in Va., respectively. They say they charge seventeen dollars and provide a "guide". I wouldn't be surprised to find they've violated our copyright as to the information provided which they could have sucked off of OCDO. Here's something else that indicates they don't know what they're doing: the menu lists options for "concealed carry application assistance", "official state licensing website", and "application status check". The "assistance" page contains a fill-in-the-blanks form that requests personal information INCLUDING DATE OF BIRTH which they couldn't possibly have any legitimate use for, and the other two pages only take you to the VSP website, which is neither responsible for "licensing" nor "status" (there is no license scheme in Va., and only the local circuit court clerk can give information about the status of an application).
Finally, and to me this is the kicker: there is no entity called anything like, "concealed carry services", registered with the Virginia State Corporation Commission - i.e., this entity does not legally exist in Virginia. No telling whether it actually exists somewhere else, because there's no way to tell where they're located.
My guess is that the website is a sneaky way to gather information about gun owners, whether by some misguided law enforcement organization, some supremacist group, or the Bloomberg anti-defense league. I wouldn't recommend that anyone send them any money, or have any contact with them at all.
Feel free to copy this opinion to anyone who may be interested.
Registrant Organization: Privacy Protect, LLC (PrivacyProtect.org)
Registrant Street: 10 Corporate Drive
Registrant City: Burlington
Registrant State/Province: MA
Registrant Postal Code: 01803
That's one of those "anonymizer" services that keeps people from knowing who's really behind the website. Who'd send money to who-knows-who having something to do with a company in Massachussetts to get help with a Va. CHP application?
Here's another item of interest: nowhere on the site do they describe in detail what it is, exactly, that they do. Obviously, they can't do the fingerprinting or filing of an application, since those thing have to be done by local police or sheriff, and in-person or by an attorney licensed in Va., respectively. They say they charge seventeen dollars and provide a "guide". I wouldn't be surprised to find they've violated our copyright as to the information provided which they could have sucked off of OCDO. Here's something else that indicates they don't know what they're doing: the menu lists options for "concealed carry application assistance", "official state licensing website", and "application status check". The "assistance" page contains a fill-in-the-blanks form that requests personal information INCLUDING DATE OF BIRTH which they couldn't possibly have any legitimate use for, and the other two pages only take you to the VSP website, which is neither responsible for "licensing" nor "status" (there is no license scheme in Va., and only the local circuit court clerk can give information about the status of an application).
Finally, and to me this is the kicker: there is no entity called anything like, "concealed carry services", registered with the Virginia State Corporation Commission - i.e., this entity does not legally exist in Virginia. No telling whether it actually exists somewhere else, because there's no way to tell where they're located.
My guess is that the website is a sneaky way to gather information about gun owners, whether by some misguided law enforcement organization, some supremacist group, or the Bloomberg anti-defense league. I wouldn't recommend that anyone send them any money, or have any contact with them at all.
Feel free to copy this opinion to anyone who may be interested.
