Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

My wife and I will be moving back to Texas soon, April.

Here is my question. Will my resident CWP become a non-resident or will I need to forfeit my current permit for a non-resident? And second, I just thought of it, if I go to Texas and get a drivers license there before the move will my resident CWP still be valid while I am still in Virginia?

Thanks for all the help.

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Second question first, your VA resident CHP is only valid when paired with a VA D/L or state-issued ID card.

The VSP website makes no mention of whether a address change would be possible when moving out of state. There is contact information on the VSP website if you want to submit this question to them.

http://www.vsp.state.va.us/Firearms_Non ... of_Address

or

http://www.vsp.state.va.us/Firearms.shtm

Fabulous! Thank you I will check out those links, contact them and report back here what I find out.

Thanks again.

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The very recent experience of a good friend and very experienced packer who got transferred out of state went like this: there was no need to convert his county-issued in-state to a VSP-issued out-of-state permit; the resident permit lives until expiration (in a nonresident capacity). In fact, the permit was a non-issue when presented with his new state's DL to a Virginia trooper (yes, I was there). According to the high-up VSP contact, if one WISHES, one MAY surrender a resident permit and apply for an out-of-state permit. But why would you want the cost and aggravation? IANAL.

Update:

So I did some asking around. A resident CWP is no valid without a Va drivers license. It's a 2 piece permit, 1 is the CWP 2 is the Va DL.

So until I get to tx perminately, I'll have to open carry, no big deal.

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AdmiralG26 wrote:Update:

So I did some asking around. A resident CWP is no valid without a Va drivers license. It's a 2 piece permit, 1 is the CWP 2 is the Va DL.

Well no, that's not exactly true.....

A CHP must be presented, upon demand to a LEO along with one of 3 accepted forms of photo ID:

a photo id issued by a government agency of the Commonwealth of VA, A photo id issued by the DOD, or a photo ID issued by the Department of State.

So....my dependent military Id would work??

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