There is probably redundant information here to the answers to these questions, but I don’t see anything recent, and I have zero trust in NJ not to change something about the process to my (our) detriment. My NJ carry permit expires 2/24/2017. I live in a rural section of Cape May County with no local PD, so I need to go through NJSP to renew (local barracks is Woodbine). I will also need to do qualification for this renewal. What is the current best practice for lead time on submitting my permit application? I seem to recall that if qualification is done close enough to renewal, it will still be valid for the next (2029) permit application. Is that valid, and if so, what are the specifics? Thanks very much in advance.
I have the same question so watching this
The qualification is good for 2 years, so if it’s still valid by the time of your application you’re good to go. Now with that being said, there’s no guarantee this won’t change by 2029.
When I renewed my permit in October 2025, it was expiring in December 2025. The guy at the Manalapan PD (Retired LEO I believe), told me I barely made it in time since my qualification was 2 years in November. So I was able to submit 2 months before my permit expired and less than a month before my quals expired. So if nothing changes procedurally, if it hasn’t already. If you time it right you should be able to stretch 1 qual over 2 renewal periods.
The qualification is good for2 years.
Your permit also expires after 2 years.
You may apply for your renewal no more than 4 months before your permit expires.
I would wait until next month to do your qualification. That way you can be pretty sure your new permit will be processed before your current one expires, but maximizes the amount of time your qualification will still be valid before your next renewal.
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i was wondering if its ok to skip a renewal with out any issues, until sensitive places is ruled on its kind of a waste. the only benefit would be out of state permits tied to your NJ one.
While I agree that the restricted places doctrine does impair the value of NJ PtC, I think it is still worth having. I do grocery shopping at Walmart, and I like being prepared there. I occasionally drive to an unfamiliar location to pursue an item offered for sale on FB Marketplace or Craigslist, and carrying under those circumstances is important to me. We get our USPS mail from a PO Box just down the street, and, since I usually check for mail when driving somewhere else on an errand, the SAF decision has made that a lot less of a hassle for the past year. As you mentioned, I have a few permits in other states, some of which require that I maintain my NJ permit. Even if I didn’t see value right now in NJ PtC, I’d be afraid to let mine lapse. Hopefully neither Alito nor Thomas (nor any younger conservative) retires from SCOTUS any time soon, but after what happened last Tuesday, there is little doubt the the long term climate re 2A is going to suffer some reversals from recent history. That is doubly true if the Dems recapture the WH in 2028; it is highly probable that packing SCOTUS with very young Marxists would begin almost immediately after inauguration.There is no guarantee, but sometimes being grandfathered into something that is viewed by government as a privilege (and I very much fear that we are headed back to that) prevents, or at least delays, government attempting to rescind it. YMMV
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