Hi all
I recently applied for a Maine CCW and, after waiting 8 months, followed up on the matter to be told that I will probably face a rejection for failing their good moral character clause. I have a deferred sentence for harassment in my home state. It was an incident between myself and my mother who I was living with at the time and is the only thing on my record, and my home state of Colorado does not classify it as domestic violence. However, had it occurred in Maine it would have been classified as domestic violence. My boyfriend lives in the Portland area which I intend to move to as soon as I finish school, and I would prefer not to go unarmed, so I am giving serious consideration to open carrying. Since people who "have committed a crime of domestic violence" are ineligible to own, let alone carry firearms, and since Maine would have defined my actions as domestic violence, I am wondering whether I run the risk of being charged with a serious crime if I elect to carry and have an inevitable encounter with police that turns up these prior issues. For purposes of owning and carrying, do the definitions of the home state matter, or do the definitions of the state in which carrying occurs matter?
Thanks in advance.
I recently applied for a Maine CCW and, after waiting 8 months, followed up on the matter to be told that I will probably face a rejection for failing their good moral character clause. I have a deferred sentence for harassment in my home state. It was an incident between myself and my mother who I was living with at the time and is the only thing on my record, and my home state of Colorado does not classify it as domestic violence. However, had it occurred in Maine it would have been classified as domestic violence. My boyfriend lives in the Portland area which I intend to move to as soon as I finish school, and I would prefer not to go unarmed, so I am giving serious consideration to open carrying. Since people who "have committed a crime of domestic violence" are ineligible to own, let alone carry firearms, and since Maine would have defined my actions as domestic violence, I am wondering whether I run the risk of being charged with a serious crime if I elect to carry and have an inevitable encounter with police that turns up these prior issues. For purposes of owning and carrying, do the definitions of the home state matter, or do the definitions of the state in which carrying occurs matter?
Thanks in advance.