Magnum88C said:
mrostov, don't you also have a CCW permit availability?
if so, do you have to specify which weapons can be carried CCW? Like in NV, you have to select up to two CCW weapons, and have them registered by serial number. Any weapons can be carried openly.
What Krept said.
In AZ if you pass the class, you get the permit and it's good for ANYTHING .... so long as it's legal, which is too bad since a couple of grenades would balance out an M1911 quite nicely.
By anything they mean knives, NFA legal machineguns, pistols with NFA legal suppressors, swords, gas, flails, nunchucks, throwing stars, derringers, NFA legal sawed off shotguns - you name it. Basically whatever you feel froggy about packing around that day. The State doesn't get to know what your on-board personal arsenal is.
There aren't many weapons that aren't legal in Arizona. The owner of Dillon's reloading (their store is up near the Scottsdale airport) owns a a real, genuine, functioning quad .50 motorized turret with four, real, functioning .50BMG machineguns. There's more than one mini-gun in private hands in AZ, and amongst the wealthier set in AZ owning a real machinegun is something of a status symbol. The current going price for an M-16A1, one of the more economical machineguns on the market, is about $6000 to $7000.
There are several ClassIII shops you can just go into and look at stuff for sale, like an FN-MAG or an MG-42. Mandel's has a fully functioning 20mm Lahti sitting as the centerpiece of the store. There's even a place or two with a range where you can rent a machinegun to get in some full auto range time.
Without the permit you can pack, loaded and ready to rock and roll, openly on your person and in your car.
I remember this one attempted carjacking where the guy was packing a .44mag revolver. He was beating the <font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font><font color=red>*</font> out of the two Mexicans who wanted his new Corvette, when one went back to his van to get a shotgun. The Whiteman then pulled out the .44mag and cut loose. One Mexican died on the spot and the other ran down the street to the hospital where he had to have both arms amputated.
Then there was the Black who tried to do an armed carjacking of a guy waiting to get on the on-ramp to the freeway. The motorist, without a second thought, fired right through the window with a .357mag. His ears were ringing but the carjacker died on the spot.
Breaking into an occupied dwelling in AZ, armed or not, is grounds for use of lethal force. If someone attacks you, or another person for that matter, whether they have a gun or not is irrelevant, you can blow them away.
In AZ, you can simply buy any non-NFA weapon with an instant background check and walk out, but if you have a CCW, then no instant background check is needed, they just use your CCW ID number, you pay for the weapon, and you walk out with it. Most gun shops want you to wait till you are outside the store before you load it.
It's also legal here to do any private transaction that doesn't involve an FFL dealer paperless and off record provided that it's not an NFA weapon.