user wrote:
Correct. Some places will make you do the fingerprint cards over again.
And that is not correct in my opinion - hopefully Ms. Chin Chin's locality
does have a fingerprint ordiance and she
refuses to be fingerprinted again and
is denied the permit for this refusal - that way shecan get this issue litigated and fixed for all of Virginia.
Localities "shall not require fingerprinting for the renewal of an existing permit pursuant to subsection I of §
18.2-308." Va. Code §15.2-915.3 ("Requiring fingerprinting for concealed handgun permit").
Subsection I of §
18.2-308provides that "If the new five-year permit is issued
while an existing permit remains valid, the new five-year permit shall become effective upon the expiration date of the existing permit, provided that the application is received by the court at least 90 days but no more than 180 days prior to the expiration of the existing permit." This text makes clear that an existing permit may be valid or not valid - presumably not valid means either expired or revoked. In any event, it appears clear that an expired but still existing permit privileges the holder from being fingerprinted as part of any application for a CHP through a circuit court in Virginia regardless oflocal ordinance.