Editorial standards

This site describes laws that change, in a subject area where being wrong has consequences for the reader. These are the rules we hold ourselves to.

We cite primary sources

Legal and regulatory claims link to statutes, state agencies and issuing authorities — the California DOJ, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Washington State Patrol, and so on. Every state page carries a Sources & official resources panel.

We do not base legal claims on other people's blog posts, on aggregator reciprocity maps, or on what a competitor's landing page asserts.

We never claim more than the source supports

If a statute contains exceptions, we say so rather than flattening it into a cleaner sentence. The federal school-zone provision is the clearest example: it would be far easier to write “your reciprocal permit is illegal within 1,000 feet of a school,” and it would be wrong. We write the accurate, narrower version even though it takes three paragraphs instead of one line.

We date everything

Every state page and every legal guide carries a last-reviewed date. If a date looks stale to you, treat the content as stale and verify it directly. We would rather you check than assume.

We say when we do not know

Some things we cannot verify. We do not publish claims about which California counties have approved a specific course, because we have not independently confirmed them and a wrong answer costs a reader real money. Instead we tell people to confirm with the county — repeatedly, because it is the single most common expensive mistake in that state.

Where a requirement is in flux — Washington's coming training and live-fire requirements, California's nonresident prerequisites — we flag it as changing rather than presenting a snapshot as settled.

We disclose the commercial relationship

We earn a commission on courses purchased through our links, and we say so on every page carrying one. Our affiliate disclosure sets out how we handle the conflict that creates.

We do not invent social proof

There are no fabricated testimonials, reviews or student counts on this site. If you see a review here, it came from a real customer through a legitimate review platform. Where we have nothing verified to show, we show nothing.

This is not legal advice

Nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship or tells you what is lawful for you in a specific situation. Firearm law is fact-specific and jurisdiction-specific. For legal advice, consult an attorney licensed in the state that matters to your circumstances.

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