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Issuance of concealed handgun license.
Before the sheriff may issue a license:
(a) The application must state the applicant's legal name, current address and telephone number, date and place of birth, hair and eye color and height and weight. The application must also list the applicant's residence address or addresses for the previous three years. The application must contain a statement by the applicant that the applicant meets the requirements of subsection (1) of this section. The application may include the Social Security number of the applicant if the applicant voluntarily provides this number. The application must be signed by the applicant.
Instead of asking the opinion of a bunch of strangers on the internet, I actually asked the clerk when I was filling out the application nine years ago. She said the references you list are not for the sheriff to contact to decide if you get the license, but for the sheriff to contact if they need to find you after you get your license. In all those years none of my references have been contacted.
In Columbia County both of my references were contacted by form letter and asked if they thought there was any reason I should not be issued a CHL.
Anyone know if they have to be local contacts or are out-of-state (not WA or OR) OK?
I put Obama and Biden down, I heard they never called .
The wife and I put down people who we shoot with, a different two for each of us, and one who lives Washington state. None were contacted. Still took 206 days to get our permits.