In the past year you have contacted us to express concern about this subject. We explained that because of some restrictive language in the Statue that authorizes the Attorney General (Division of Criminal Investigation) to issue Concealed Firearms Permits there was a serious question as to whether Wyoming could continue to grant reciprocity and recognize permits from many other states. And of course, that would also adversely affect recognition in those States of Wyoming Permits.

Senator Cale Case of Lander has informed us that he plans to introduce legislation in the upcoming session of the Legislature that will amend the statute to fix this problem, making it clear that Wyoming can recognize permits from more states, and so that they can recognize ours.

Assuming that you remain concerned about this issue, we encourage you to contact your local legislators and ask them to support Senator Case's bill. This is extremely important this year because this is a Budget Session of our Legislature, and it will require a 2/3 vote to introduce a non-budget bill. The session convenes on February 8, 2010, and new bills will need to be voted for introduction within very few days after that, so it might be a good idea to contact your Legislators about this before they come to Cheyenne for the Session.

Thank you.

C.A. "Kip" Crofts
Counsel to the Governor

 

I hope you get it, makes a big differance in the crime rate, it goes down when more CCW's are issued

 

Wow, you got some real winners in WY. Your "Counsel to the Gov" can't even spell Statute correctly.