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I got a call last week from the sheriff's office, letting me know that my handgun permits were ready for pickup. I finally got the time to run up there today, and I step up to the bullet proof glass at the magistrate's ID office and rang the buzzer once. I noticed that there was a lady sitting inside the office, be she didn't look like she worked there. Soon...here comes the female officer. I tell her who I am, and what I'm after, and she sifts thru the files to find my permits. Places the paperwork up on the counter (behind the glass that only has a pass-thru tilting drawer...no little speaker or hole to communicate thru)...she peels back the top paper and I see a sticky note on the second page. I try to twist my head to read the note when she says something that I simply couldn't hear. She obviously knew that i didn't hear her, and steps toward the door to come to my side of the glass and says...
"You need to make a correction on your application before I can release the permits...change your answer on question 2 to "yes"...and initial the change"
I look at question 2 and it reads..."Have you ever been convicted of a crime other than a traffic violation"...I had checked "NO"...and she was asking me to check "YES"! I told her that I had never been convicted of any crime...and that I would not make the change!
She confirmed my full name and address, and I acknowledged...then she says...."Were you or were you not given a citation in March of 1989 for trout fishing during closed season?...and did you choose to pay the fine uncontested?...thus admitting guilt".....MY jaw dropped!
It was one of those damned fool things that I did ONCE because I was to impatient to wait 2 hours for the sun to rise, which would have officially opened the season. I was in the middle of nowhere, 6" of snow on the ground, no other tracks, and the ranger was hiding in the woods!
I finally said...You've got to be kidding me!...then the officer, and the lady still behind the glass...just doubled up laughing!...but I DID have to change my answer!
I told here that this didn't come up the last time I got 10 permits (3-4 years ago) and she said that we probably didn't have the same sheriff then.
I still had one of my previous permits left in the truck...and it had been signed by the same sheriff.
"You need to make a correction on your application before I can release the permits...change your answer on question 2 to "yes"...and initial the change"
I look at question 2 and it reads..."Have you ever been convicted of a crime other than a traffic violation"...I had checked "NO"...and she was asking me to check "YES"! I told her that I had never been convicted of any crime...and that I would not make the change!
She confirmed my full name and address, and I acknowledged...then she says...."Were you or were you not given a citation in March of 1989 for trout fishing during closed season?...and did you choose to pay the fine uncontested?...thus admitting guilt".....MY jaw dropped!
It was one of those damned fool things that I did ONCE because I was to impatient to wait 2 hours for the sun to rise, which would have officially opened the season. I was in the middle of nowhere, 6" of snow on the ground, no other tracks, and the ranger was hiding in the woods!
I finally said...You've got to be kidding me!...then the officer, and the lady still behind the glass...just doubled up laughing!...but I DID have to change my answer!
I told here that this didn't come up the last time I got 10 permits (3-4 years ago) and she said that we probably didn't have the same sheriff then.
I still had one of my previous permits left in the truck...and it had been signed by the same sheriff.
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