Fingerprints required for CHP in Arlington County

In Arlington County, in order to obtain a CHP, you are required to submit to having yourself fingerprinted...as if you had just committed a crime.

What's next? DNA samples?

I suppose the purpose is so that if your fingerprints are found at a crime scene, they can immediately confiscate your weapons and search your house, etc., etc.

Does anyone know how long these yahoos keep your fingerprints on file? Is it forever?

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Virginia Code § 18.2-308 D:

As a condition for issuance of a concealed handgun permit, the applicant shall submit to fingerprinting if required by local ordinance in the county or city where the applicant resides and provide personal descriptive information to be forwarded with the fingerprints through the Central Criminal Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information regarding the applicant, and obtaining fingerprint identification information from federal records pursuant to criminal investigations by state and local law-enforcement agencies.

However, no local ordinance shall require an applicant to submit to fingerprinting if the applicant has an existing concealed handgun permit issued pursuant to this section and is applying for a new five-year permit pursuant to subsection I.

Where feasible and practical, the local law-enforcement agency may transfer information electronically to the State Police instead of inked fingerprint cards.

Upon completion of the criminal history records check, the State Police shall return the fingerprint cards to the submitting local agency or, in the case of scanned fingerprints, destroy the electronic record.

The local agency shall then promptly notify the person that he has 21 days from the date of the notice to request return of the fingerprint cards, if any.

All fingerprint cards not claimed by the applicant within 21 days of notification by the local agency shall be destroyed.

All optically scanned fingerprints shall be destroyed upon completion of the criminal history records check without requiring that the applicant be notified.

Fingerprints taken for the purposes described in this section shall not be copied, held or used for any other purposes.

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In Arlington County, in order to obtain a CHP, you are required to submit to having yourself fingerprinted...as if you had just committed a crime.

What's next? DNA samples?

I suppose the purpose is so that if your fingerprints are found at a crime scene, they can immediately confiscate your weapons and search your house, etc., etc.

Does anyone know how long these yahoos keep your fingerprints on file? Is it forever?

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mpolo79 wrote:

In Arlington County, in order to obtain a CHP, you are required to submit to having yourself fingerprinted...as if you had just committed a crime.

What's next? DNA samples?

I suppose the purpose is so that if your fingerprints are found at a crime scene, they can immediately confiscate your weapons and search your house, etc., etc.

Does anyone know how long these yahoos keep your fingerprints on file? Is it forever?

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Holders of existing erpmit cannot be forced to be fingerprinted by any locality.

But most localities, including Fairfax County and Richmond do NOT fingerprint - if you live in Arlington County, you should ask your County supervisor to get the requirement repealed - the FBI fingerprinting cost is somthing like $32 and eats up County money which otherwise would stay in the County!

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Chesterfield County requires fingerprints as well. You are not alone.

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In Arlington County, in order to obtain a CHP, you are required to submit to having yourself fingerprinted...as if you had just committed a crime.

What's next? DNA samples?

I suppose the purpose is so that if your fingerprints are found at a crime scene, they can immediately confiscate your weapons and search your house, etc., etc.

Does anyone know how long these yahoos keep your fingerprints on file? Is it forever?

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mpolo79 wrote:

In Arlington County, in order to obtain a CHP, you are required to submit to having yourself fingerprinted...as if you had just committed a crime.

What's next? DNA samples?

I suppose the purpose is so that if your fingerprints are found at a crime scene, they can immediately confiscate your weapons and search your house, etc., etc.

Does anyone know how long these yahoos keep your fingerprints on file? Is it forever?

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Wow, that's a pretty paranoid point of view you have there....

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If guns are banned, I'd rather not have my prints on file.

You know, every single innocent person who's been falsely imprisoned didn't wake up that morning planning to commit a crime. In fact, they never committed the crime at all. I guess those intentions are awfully reassuring once that cell door closes, though. :quirky

When you treat people as criminals with no suspicion of a crime, you've taken the first step towards imprisoning the innocent en masse.

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proshooter wrote: Wow, that's a pretty paranoid point of view you have there....

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I think fingerprints are required in most VA counties. I know Prince William and Fauquier counties require them for a permit. However, for renewals, I believe that fingerprints are not required. Just FYI...

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