As previously reported, a change to Maine’s law allows that they will honor any resident permit from any state where that state also honor’s the Maine permit. With that said Florida has begun to honor the Maine resident permit and thus Maine now honor’s the Florida resident permit.
It is worth noting that neither state will honor a non-resident permit from the other state. This change applies to resident permits only.
Our permit map builder has been updated accordingly.
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This is great news!
Since Maine became a constitutional carry state recently, very few people will now obtain a meaningless piece of paper. Therefore this change is of little or no benefit to most of us.
It’s of great benefit if you travel to Florida often.
Should know that the new Maine law does not allow unlicensed carry in state parks. It also
requires unlicensed carrier to notify LE if stopped.
Not true, having the permit gives you more privileges to and where and how you carry then no permit….just saying check it out !!
I don’t get it my state Vermont doesn’t require a pistol permit we can conceal carry I have non resident permits in New Hampshire and Maine but state laws in Florida do not honor nonresident permits from other states we still have to go through all the requirements of that state but resident can carry in Florida a non resident permit can’t it doesn’t make sense to me.
There are a couple of reasons why they may choose not to honor non-resident permits but I don’t know that its worth getting into the topic. The solution to your issue if traveling to Florida is to apply for a Florida permit. The training requirements aren’t hard and it sounds like you have already accomplished them. You can mail in your application for Florida and they will issue the permit via the mail.
So as a licensed Florida resident, I can conceal carry while visiting Maine??
If you’re driving what do you do about New York and Massachusetts etc?
If you are just going through New York or Massachusetts then Article 926a of the Firearm Owner Protection Act allows you to transport the firearm through any state if you meet the conditions listed in that law.
So let me get this straight. if im visiting Maine as a Florida resident I legally allowed to carry with my Florida CCW??