You get the photo taken here at the DMV.

Wyoming is so laid back and polite that if you ask nicely, they’ll let you try two or three shots until you get a good one.

My driver’s license photo even looks pretty good too.

I’ve never spent more than 20 minutes in and out at the DMV here. Usually more like ten. In Los Angeles, I’d spend three hours, minimum, WITH an appointment. And a few times a fist fight broke out in the line there.

Here the line is mellow and is in CHAIRS….you move over one chair each time someone is finished.

I told this to a friend in a smaller town in Wyoming, he said “It took you 20 minutes? Man…Casper must be getting crowded these days.”

MWD

Our local office has an uglifyer lens on it. Even my wife looks like an ex-con.

MWD

The reason I say that is because: 1. If Wyoming passes it, Montana MIGHT follow suit. I doubt it, but it’s possible. 2. I’m seriously starting to consider moving to Wyoming. Montana is going down the tubes farther and farther with every session of the legislature, and I’m sick of it. It’s quite conceivable that the company I work for could open a location in Sheridan some time in the future. If they were to do so, it would be EXTREMELY tempting to transfer. I doubt that I’d pack up and move without that sort of incentive, but if things keep going the way they have been, it’ll be looking pretty good within the next few years.

Justin

MWD

Maybe I’ll have to take advantage of my dual citizenship status and accelerate “project Wyoming”

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Historically, isn’t that usually the way with revolutions? Guns are good, everyone should have one to overthrow the tyrannical government, until the job is done, then the people can’t be trusted with guns?

Getting a gun permit in Wyoming is about as hard as getting a driver’s license, which is easy. Though it’s only a $750 dollar fine if you don’t have one (as long as you’re not committing a crime), so a lot of honest, non-criminal people carry without a permit, and the state Republicans are in the process of trying to eliminate the need for a permit.

MWD

To answer your questions: it’s hard getting a gun or a gun permit here, I don’t even own a gun and didn’t like’em in the first place, but your site and recent muggings have made me rethink that position (my colombian grandpa did have one). We don’t have some thing like the 2nd ammendment in our constitution (a constitution made by former guerrillas and a bunch of liberals in 1991). And we don’t have a federal system but a centralist one, so all laws are for the whole territory (huge mistake if you ask me, we stopped being the United States of Colombia in 1886).

To sum it up, few people have gun permits, so the measure is kind of stupid, because anyways criminals (including guerrillas) get their arms illegaly anyway, so as you always remind us, government is only making people more vulnerable instead of strong.

How hard is it to get one there?

The Wyoming state Constitution says no entity can suspend the rights of law-abiding citizens to have guns. (that’s a reaction to the gun confiscations in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina.)

MWD