Chesterfield County residents,

Contact your Board of Supervisors member and tell them that
Chesterfield county does not need to fingerprint concealed carry
applicants. Make the following points:

1. Chesterfield Police department, according to both the person who
is in charge of their records and the County Attorney’s Office,
cannot show that fingerprints are necessary in stopping the one or
two criminals who try to get a permit in the county each year.

2. Most counties, including neighboring county such as Powhatan see
no need for fingerprints. Even liberal Fairfax County does not do
fingerprinting. Are Chesterfield citizens somehow less trustworthy
then those in Powhatan or Fairfax?

3. Although counties are required by law to destroy fingerprint
cards when they come back from the FBI, the FBI has no such
requirement. This allows the FBI to build a defacto registration
list of law abiding gun owners and their fingerprints.

4. The money sent to the FBI for fingerprinting could be better
spent here in the county. The money could help fill the void left by
the reduced revenue on car taxes or to employ more police officers or
to pay for gun safety education in schools.

We need to get the ball rolling on this because February will be the
logical time for them to consider removing the fingerprinting
requirement. That is because in February they starting looking at
the budget and it is the budget that will probably be the reason that
they would consider doing away with fingerprinting as per reason #4
above.

Here are the supervisors. Be sure and contact yours, but it wouldn’t
hurt to contact all of them. We need to let them know if we want
this changed. If they don’t hear from constituents, then nothing is
going to change:

Dale District
Harry G. Daniel
PO Box 40
Chesterfield, VA 23832-0040
Office: (804) 748-1211
Fax: (804) 717-6297

E-Mail: [email protected]

Clover Hill District
Arthur S. (Art) Warren
PO Box 40
Chesterfield, VA 23832-0040

Office: (804) 748-1211
Voice Mail: (804) 768-7396
Fax: (804) 717-6297

E-Mail: [email protected]

Matoaca District
Renny Bush Humphrey
PO Box 40
Chesterfield, VA 23832-0040

Office: (804) 748-1211
Voice Mail: (804) 768-7400
Fax: (804) 717-6297

E-:Mail: [email protected]

Bermuda District
Jack McHale
PO Box 40
Chesterfield, VA 23832-0040

Office: (804) 748-1211
Home: (804) 748-3167
Voice Mail: (804) 768-7398
Fax: (804) 717-6297

E-Mail: [email protected]

Midlothian District
Edward B. Barber
PO Box 40
Chesterfield, VA 23832-0040

Office: (804) 748-1211
Voice Mail: (804) 768-7397
Fax: (804) 717-6297

E-Mail: [email protected]

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact
Philip Van Cleave: [email protected]

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