• You must be at least 21 years of age.
• You must successfully complete, not earlier than two years prior to the submission of such application, a course approved by the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection in the safety and use of firearms.

Your application will be automatically denied if you:

• Have been convicted of a felony.

• Have been convicted of any of the following misdemeanor violations (during the preceding twenty years) of CGS Section(s):

1.  21a-279 on or after October 1, 2015, illegal possession of a controlled substance other than cannabis

2. 53a-58 Criminally negligent homicide

3. 53a-61 Assault in the third degree

4. 53a-61a Assault of an elderly, blind, disabled or pregnant person or a person with intellectual disability in the third degree

5. 53a-62 Threatening in the second degree

6. 53a-63 Reckless endangerment in the first degree

7. 53a-96 Unlawful restraint in the second degree

8. 53a-175 Riot in the first degree

9. 53a-176 Riot in the second degree

10. 53a-178 Inciting to riot

11. 53a-181d Stalking in the second degree

• A misdemeanor violation of any law of this state that has been designated as a family violence crime pursuant to section 46b-38h.

• Convicted as delinquent for the commission of a serious juvenile offense, as defined in section 46b-120.

• Been discharged from custody within the preceding twenty years after having been found not guilty of a crime by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to section 53a-13.

• Been confined in a hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities, as defined in section 17a-495, within the preceding sixty months by order of a probate court, or (B) has been voluntarily admitted on or after October 1, 2013, or has been committed under an emergency certificate pursuant to section 17a-502 on or after October 1, 2023, to a hospital for persons with psychiatric disabilities, as defined in section 17a-495, within the preceding six months for care and treatment of a psychiatric disability and not solely for being an alcohol-dependent person or a drug-dependent person, as those terms are defined in section 17a-680.

• Subject to a restraining or protective order issued by a court in a case involving the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against another person, including an ex parte order issued pursuant to section 46b-15 or 46b-16a;

• Subject to a firearms seizure order issued prior to June 1, 2022, pursuant to section 29-38c after notice and hearing, or a risk protection order or risk protection investigation order issued on or after June 1, 2022, pursuant to section 29-38c;

• Prohibited from shipping, transporting, possessing or receiving a firearm pursuant to 18 USC 922(g)(2), (g)(4) or (g)(9); (

• An alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States