IA Permit to Carry Weapons Class ALTOONA, IA

NOTE: Where a state’s permit is honored (often called “reciprocity”) will change from time to time. Having multiple state carry permits can help cover the gaps in any potential changes. As such, we always suggest checking the Legal Heat App or purchasing our 50 State Guide To Firearm Laws and Regulations book before you travel, to ensure your permit is valid in the locations you will be visiting.

Students MUST bring the following items to the class:

✓ Your valid photo ID
✓ Your printed email ticket
✓ Pen and Paper if you’d like to take notes
✓ Please bring bottled water to keep hydrated
DO NOT bring firearms or ammunition into the classroom

Fingerprinting:

• Fingerprinting Services MAY be available during class depending on location and local requirements.
• Legal Heat does NOT provide this service, but Fingerprinting Services are offered through the local instructor directly.
• Any issues with fingerprinting services or DIY kits should be directed to the providing instructor, not Legal Heat

When applying for your home state permit your local issuing agency may want to fingerprint you. Your instructor will provide full details during class.

In classes that include the AZ and UT certifications, instructors MAY be offering DIY Fingerprint Kits for sale that come with instructions, ink strips and enough fingerprint cards to apply for both permits.

• Arizona’s application requires TWO fingerprint cards.
• Utah’s application requires ONE fingerprint card.
• DIY FINGERPRINT KIT VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS

*If using the DIY Fingerprint Kit, please be sure that your writing is legible, written in black ink, and your fingerprints are ROLLED not PRESSED and they are clean with no smudges or smears.

Photos:                            

• Legal Heat does not provide Passport Photos.
• Passport Photos MAY be offered in some classes by the instructor for a small fee.
• If your instructor is not offering Passport Photos in your class you can have them taken and printed at your local pharmacy.
• Not all states require a Passport Photo, please be sure to read the application instructions for the state(s) you are applying for.

Legal Heat’s firearm training instructors are not just highly experienced, but genuinely friendly and enjoy teaching everyone from new to seasoned shooters. They are among the best in the industry. Whether you’ve never touched a gun, or you’ve been shooting most of your life, you will enjoy this fun, non-intimidating, truly engaging class.

Here are some of the topics we cover:

• Firearm safety
• Parts and operation
• Shooting fundamentals
• Ammunition
• Care and storage (guns and ammo)
• Maintenance & cleaning
• Malfunctions
• Range rules
• Vehicle transport (local and interstate)
• Airplane transport
• Purchase and transfer
• Police encounters
• Duty to inform
• Open carry vs. concealed carry
• Concealed carry techniques
• Holsters
• Self-defense
• Perceived threat reaction
• Avoiding confrontation (situational awareness)
• Escalation of force
• Deadly force
• Brandishing
• State and Federal law
• Castle doctrine (defense of habitation)
• Stand your ground vs. duty to retreat
• Imminence and reasonableness
• Physical, emotional, legal and financial ramifications
• Suicide Prevention
• And more

The strategy behind holding multiple broad-based CCW permits like PA, UT & AZ has several dimensions, and the reasons to hold more than one CCW permit are as follows: 

1) It broadens your carry map by adding unique states that are not covered under your other permits (UT, FL &AZ permits often add several states to your carry)

2) It reduces the possibility that you will lose carry privileges in a particular state if one or more of your permits loses reciprocity with that state. (States frequently add and drop other states permits from their CCW reciprocity maps.) By holding multiple permits that cover a particular state (say Ohio) you could still carry in Ohio under your UT and AZ permits if OH ever reversed the decision to honor your home state’s permit.)

3) It can increase the number of contiguous states available to the permit holder to carry in so they may conceal carry throughout most of the continental US without stopping, unloading, and securing guns for transport through states where they do not enjoy CCW reciprocity for states with limited reciprocity, like NY or OR.

 4) It maximizes the benefit of your investment of time and money into your CCW training by getting the maximum number of permits available from one training session.

5) It increases your credibility regarding your concealed carry privileges during encounters with law enforcement. Presenting multiple valid CCW permits in encounters with law enforcement officers tends to smooth out those interactions, as they know you have been trained and vetted by multiple state agencies. Having multiple permits to carry in a particular state ensures that the officer knows you have the standing to carry from multiple authorities so he or she is the less likely to challenge the validity of a particular permit.

6) It minimizes your permit expiration risk.  By holding multiple permits you can shield yourself from having your “single” permit expire and still carry legally under your other permits should you make a human mistake and forget to renew your permit(s) timely.  This is also called “oops” insurance.

7) The more permits that are held by the public, the greater the political clout of concealed carriers in general.  As more US citizens actively seek conceal carry permits is creates a tangible demonstration of responsible, law-abiding citizens who value the second amendment.

 The benefit of adding the Arizona, Florida and/or Utah permits to (for example) your PA (or another home state) permit is that those permits are widely honored, have a relatively stable carry maps, add several states to the PA permit holder’s carry map (WA, NV, NM, NE, DE) and are also relatively inexpensive to obtain and maintain.  We believe this is very a strong, broad and relatively economical combined permit strategy for most concealed carry permit holders.