ATW: D.C. Begins Accepting Gun Carry Applications

By Neil McCabe | 6:39 PM | October 26, 2014

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

The Metropolitan Police Department will begin accepting applications for gun carry permits Thursday.

However, the application process is restrictive and the city has not yet certified any instructors to provide the required 16 hours of classroom instruction and two hours of range training, MPD Office of Communications director Gwendolyn Crump said.

While there is currently no way to complete the training required to become eligible for a permit, Crump said that people can still apply.

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Neil W. McCabe is the editor of HE's "Guns & Patriots" e-letter and was a senior reporter at the Human Events newspaper. McCabe deployed with the Army Reserve to Iraq for 15 months as a combat historian. For many years, he was a reporter and photographer for "The Pilot," Boston's Catholic paper. He was also the editor of the free community papers "The Somerville (Mass.) News and "The Alewife (North Cambridge, Mass.)." Email him: [email protected] Follow him on Twitter: @neilwmccabe.