Maine and Pennsylvania Cease Permit Reciprocity

2000px-Seal_of_Pennsylvania.svgWe have been informed that Maine and Pennsylvania will no longer honor each other's concealed carry permits. You may recall that recently Maine had two new laws go into effect that instituted constitutional carry in the state and extended reciprocity to any out of state permit whose state also honored Maine's permit. Apparently something about these changes must have rubbed Pennsylvania the wrong way as they chose to stop honoring the Maine permit. Therefore Maine also stopped honoring the Pennsylvania permit.

About Jacob Paulsen

Jacob S. Paulsen is the President of ConcealedCarry.com. For over 20 years Jacob has been involved as a professional in the firearm industry. He values his time as a student as much as his experience as an instructor with a goal to obtain over 40 hours a year of formal instruction. Jacob is a NRA certified instructor & Range Safety Officer, Guardian Pistol instructor and training counselor, Stop The Bleed instructor, Affiliate instructor for Next Level Training, Graduate and certified instructor for The Law of Self Defense, TCCC Certified, and has been a Glock and Sig Sauer Certified Armorer. Jacob is also the creator of The Annual Guardian Conference which is a 3-day defensive handgun training conference.

6 Comments

  1. Greg J on May 14, 2016 at 1:16 am

    If I have a PA carry permit, it’s not honor, but as a Vet and I carry a DD214, will that work?

    • Jacob Paulsen on May 14, 2016 at 3:21 pm

      Greg, no your DD214 doesn’t act as any sort of permit I’m afraid.

  2. Jeremy Byers on July 7, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    I believe you need to update your files on maine and Pennsylvania reciprocity, the newest letter put out by the Pennsylvania attorney General says that they accept Maine’s permit.

    • Jacob Paulsen on July 7, 2018 at 1:45 pm

      Jeremy, could you provide a link to that letter? The PA Attorney General website still shows they do NOT accept Maine permits. https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/resources/concealed-carry-reciprocity/

      • David Weidman on March 4, 2019 at 12:12 pm

        Has anyone confirmed if you can on can’t

        • Jacob Paulsen on March 6, 2019 at 10:03 am

          This has not changed. According to Maine and PA government websites they still do not honor each other’s permits. Maine does have constitutional carry so a PA resident can carry there to some extent but can not carry in situations/places where a valid or honored permit is required.

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