Starting this month, Alexandria residents wanting to carry a concealed weapon can apply for a plastic permit at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office in Old Town.
Clerk Greg Parks recently revamped the city’s concealed carry permits from paper to plastic, and residents can now complete permit applications on his website. All these new measures are intended to streamline the process — which used to be “very inefficient,” Parks told ALXnow — for the public and his staff.
“The whole process from beginning to end, used to be paper-based,” Parks said. “You would literally fill out a paper-based application that the Virginia State Police created. It’s a huge, long application. You’d have to fill it out in ink, you’d bring it in and then my staff would have to take that information and type it into a system.”…