My first CWP was one a slip of paper the size of a 3 to the page receipt. Filled out and signed by the probate judge.
True story - probate judges used to be called "ordinaries" - anyway this particular probate judge in a county of 20K had been judge since Christ was a corporal. It was one of those south Ga. counties that lost population during the 60s and 70s.
Kindly old gentleman, loved by everyone, never heard a bad word about him. So he ups and dies. Happens. The county has to audit his office before the new probate judge can take over.
So they audit his books. Find out he had photocopied a page of those 3 to the page "pistol toters permit" (actual official name), he would tear one of the photocopy and hand it to the applicant, and pocket the money. He had not remitted any funds to the county fo rthose permits in decades. No one in the county government thought to look for it. Our kindly beloved old judge was an embezzling stealing thief.
Kind of funny, it couldn't have been much money, I think the permits cost $5, and were good for 4 or 5 years, so couldn't have much money in a county that size.
Of course he collected on traffic fines too, and there's no telling how much of that stuck to his fingers.
