PERMIT TO CARRY A WEAPON

No permit other than the second amendment should be required to carry a gun if you have never been convicted of a felony.   
It is unconstitutional to force a person to PAY for permission to exercise a right that is already guaranteed by the constitution.  
Support for constitutional carry weapons (CCW), the open or concealed carry of handguns without permits, is gaining ground.  The concept behind this is that the 2nd Amendment itself is all the justification a citizen should need for carrying a gun openly or concealed.

CCW already exists in Wyoming, Montana, Vermont, Alaska and Arizona, and other states are considering it.

State legislatures in Maine, Idaho, Colorado, Kansas, West Virginia and New Hampshire are working on CCW bills, according to Breitbart News.  Open carry without a permit is legal in these states, and legislators argue that allowing open carry without permit but mandating a permit for concealed carry is really a way of punishing—or criminalizing—citizens who carry concealed.

West Virginia Senator Robert Kames (R-Upshur) has told Breitbart that bearing arms “is a United States constitutional right.”
“The 2nd Amendment recognizes this inherent right.”

“The 2nd Amendment recognizes this inherent right [to bear arms].”

—West Virginia State Senator Robert Kames (R-Upshur)

The state senates of Kansas, New Hampshire and West Virginia have passed versions of CCW that will allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed firearms without obtaining a special permit from law enforcement, Bearing Arms reports.

Supporters of the Kansas bill argue that open carry was already the law of the land and citizens shouldn’t have to get a permit to simply put on a coat that might conceal the same firearm.  They also pointed out the absurdity of requiring law-abiding citizens to get permits, when criminals were going to carry weapons illegally, regardless of laws.  The bill now heads to the Kansas House.

Already one of the safest states in the nation, the New Hampshire Senate passed a constitutional carry bill on a party-line vote, with anti-freedom Democrats again opposing gun rights.  The bill now heads to the New Hampshire House.

In West Virginia, the Senate passed constitutional carry legislation in a 32-2 bipartisan vote, with two Democrats opposing it.  The West Virginia legislation also drops the age requirement to carry a concealed weapon from 21 to 18.

Twenty-one states have had some form of constitutional carry proposed within recent years. These come in the wake of growing public support for gun rights and decreasing violent crime as more citizens own guns.