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Nevada Concealed Carry Permit

Nevada requires a Concealed Firearm Permit to carry. It is shall-issue, the minimum age is 21, and 8 hours of training is required.

Requirements at a glance

Permit name Concealed Firearm Permit
Issuing authority County sheriff of the county where the applicant resides (non-residents may apply to the sheriff of any Nevada county). The Nevada Department of Public Safety, Records, Communications and Compliance Division (RCCD, which also appears under the Nevada State Police branding) prescribes the application form by regulation and publishes the out-of-state recognition list, but does not itself issue permits. The Nevada Sheriffs' and Chiefs' Association (NvSCA) sets the statewide minimum training and instructor standards that sheriffs must apply under NRS 202.3657(3).
System shall-issue
Minimum age 21 — NRS 202.3657(3)(a): the sheriff shall issue to a qualified applicant who is (1) twenty-one years of age or older, or (2) at least 18 but less than 21 if the person is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces, a reserve component thereof, or the National Guard, or was discharged or released from such service under honorable conditions. An 18-20 year old applicant must document this with a current military ID card or a DD Form 214 / other document of honorable separation issued by the U.S. Department of Defense (NRS 202.3657(7)(f)). Separately, NRS 202.3657(4)(l) requires denial if the applicant was discharged under conditions other than honorable and is less than 21 years of age. Clark County (LVMPD) states the same rule on its published requirements: 'Applicants must be at least 21 years of age, unless: Active-duty military 18-21 years of age, or with an honorable discharge.'
Training required Yes — 8 hours, live fire required
State fee $99 initial / $64 renewal — the state's own charge, not the total
Valid for 5 years
Processing time Up to 120 days. NRS 202.366(3): 'Within 120 days after a complete application for a permit is submitted, the sheriff to whom the application is submitted shall grant or deny the application.' A denial must be accompanied by written notification setting forth the reasons. NRS 202.366(4): 'Unless suspended or revoked by the sheriff who issued the permit, a permit expires 5 years after the date on which it is issued.' Processing may be suspended beyond the 120-day window if the sheriff is notified that the applicant has been charged with a crime involving the use or threatened use of force or violence whose conviction would bar issuance, in which case processing is suspended until final disposition of the charges (NRS 202.3657(6)).
Fingerprints Required
Non-resident permit Available

What it actually costs

The state fee is rarely the whole bill. Fingerprinting is usually charged by a private vendor, training is bought from an instructor, and several states add photographs, notarisation or other requirements on top.

Training course $75–$250 (private instructor)
Sheriff's fee $60 — a cap under NRS 202.3657(7)(h); both Clark and Washoe charge the full $60. Exactly $25 at renewal under NRS 202.3677(2)(d)
Background reports $39 — passed through at the non-volunteer rate charged by the Central Repository and the FBI; both Clark County ($39.00, labelled 'FBI Background Check') and Washoe County ($39.00, labelled 'fingerprinting State fee') currently charge $39
County total, new permit $99 — Clark County (LVMPD, effective July 1, 2026) and Washoe County both publish $99.00 for a new permit
County total, renewal $64 — Clark and Washoe both publish $64.00 for a renewal; LVMPD charges $79.00 for a late renewal up to 364 days
Late renewal fee $15 — NRS 202.3677(2) adds a nonrefundable $15 late fee if the permit is not renewed on or before expiration; LVMPD instead posts a $40 late-renewal application fee (up to 364 days) and Washoe applies the $15 only within 120 days after expiration
Duplicate permit / address or name change $15 — $15 nonrefundable under NRS 202.367(2)(b); Clark and Washoe both charge $15 for a duplicate and for an address change, and Clark charges $25 for a name change

Nevada writes the pass-through into the statute itself: NRS 202.3657(7)(g) charges whatever the Central Repository and the FBI happen to charge, and (h) adds a sheriff's fee capped at $60. Both of the state's largest counties now land on the same totals -- Clark County's table is headed 'Effective July 1, 2026' and reads $60 + $39 = $99 new and $25 + $39 = $64 renewal, matching Washoe's long-standing $99/$64 -- so those figures are a sound anchor rather than a single-county sample, though the other fifteen counties publish their own. Training cost is separate and paid to a private instructor for the mandatory 8-hour course with live fire; range fees, ammunition for the 30-round qualification, and rental of a handgun are sometimes extra. Competence must be shown for a permit, and there is no permitless-carry alternative -- concealed carry without a permit is a category C felony in Nevada.

NRS sets only caps and pass-through costs, so the total is a county number -- but the two largest counties now publish the same figures. INITIAL permit (NRS 202.3657(7)): (g) a nonrefundable fee equal to the nonvolunteer rate charged by the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and the FBI for the required background reports, plus (h) 'a nonrefundable fee set by the sheriff not to exceed $60.' RENEWAL (NRS 202.3677(2)): (c) the same background-check pass-through fee, plus (d) 'a nonrefundable fee of $25'; a permittee who fails to renew on or before the expiration date must include an additional nonrefundable LATE FEE of $15. Duplicate permit (address change, or lost/stolen/destroyed): $15 nonrefundable (NRS 202.367(2)(b)). CLARK COUNTY (LVMPD, Service Fees table 'Effective July 1, 2026', verified 2026-09-15): New Application $60.00 + FBI Background Check $39.00 = stated total $99.00; Renewal Application $25.00 + $39.00 = stated total $64.00; Late Renewal (up to 364 days) $40.00 + $39.00 = stated total $79.00; Name Change $25.00; Duplicate Permit $15.00; Address Change with Card $15.00. WASHOE COUNTY (Sheriff's Office Records fee schedule, effective date 11/26/2019): Original Application $99.00 and Renewal Application $64.00, each stated to include a $39.00 fingerprinting State fee; late fee $15.00 within 120 days after expiration; replacement for lost/stolen/destroyed CCW $15.00; change of address/name $15.00. Clark and Washoe together hold the large majority of Nevada's population and both land on $99 new / $64 renewal, which is why those are the reported figures; the other fifteen counties publish their own totals and were not checked. Note the two counties label the same $39.00 differently (LVMPD 'FBI Background Check', Washoe 'fingerprinting State fee'); the statute treats it as a single pass-through of the Central Repository and FBI nonvolunteer rates. All fees are non-refundable. The sheriff must restore a suspended permit without a fee if the permittee is acquitted or the charges are dropped (NRS 202.3657(6)).

How to apply

  1. Confirm eligibility under NRS 202.3657 -- age 21+ (or 18-20 with qualifying military service), not prohibited under NRS 202.360, qualified to possess a handgun under state AND federal law, and none of the mandatory denial grounds in NRS 202.3657(4).
  2. Complete a qualifying firearm safety course. Under the Nevada Sheriffs' and Chiefs' Association standards (revised February 2023, effective April 2023) that NRS 202.3657(3) directs sheriffs to apply, a new permit requires a minimum 8-hour course taken inside Nevada -- either one 8-hour session or two 4-hour sessions no more than 15 days apart -- covering the use of a handgun and Nevada law on the use and concealed carry of firearms, liability and gun safety, and including BOTH a written examination (70% to pass) and a live-fire handgun qualification (30 live rounds for 6-shot-or-larger capacity, 25 for 5-shot, 70% to pass, humanoid target; simulated ammunition not accepted).
  3. Collect the resulting Certificate of Completion and the Firearm Proficiency / Firearms Qualification certificate. The certificate is valid for a CCW application for ONE YEAR from the date you completed the course, so do not let it go stale before you file.
  4. Identify the correct sheriff: Nevada residents apply to the sheriff of the county where they reside; non-residents may apply to the sheriff of ANY Nevada county (NRS 202.3657(1)). LVMPD, for example, accepts only Clark County residents plus out-of-state applicants, and requires the course to have been taken within Clark County.
  5. Obtain and complete the application form prescribed by regulation of the Department of Public Safety and furnished by the county sheriff upon request. One application covers all handguns you own or later acquire -- you are not required to list or identify individual handguns, and the permit is valid for any handgun owned or thereafter obtained (NRS 202.3657(2)).
  6. Sign the application under oath; your signature must be witnessed by an employee of the sheriff or notarized by a notary public (NRS 202.3657(7)). Counties that take walk-ins generally tell you to leave the signature blank until you appear.
  7. Appear at the sheriff's office to have a complete set of fingerprints and a front-view colored photograph taken by the sheriff or the sheriff's agent, and to present your driver's license or ID number (Nevada DMV number for residents; out-of-state license/ID number for non-residents). Applicants aged 18-20 must also present a current military ID or DD Form 214 / other honorable-separation document.
  8. Pay the nonrefundable fees: the Central Repository/FBI background-check pass-through fee plus the sheriff's fee (statutory cap $60 for an initial permit). Both Clark County (LVMPD, effective July 1, 2026) and Washoe County publish a $99.00 total for a new permit -- a $60.00 sheriff fee plus a $39.00 background-check/fingerprinting fee.
  9. The sheriff conducts the investigation -- fingerprints forwarded to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the FBI, plus a National Instant Criminal Background Check System report -- and must grant or deny within 120 days of a complete application (NRS 202.366).
  10. If denied, seek judicial review by petition in the district court for the county where you applied; review is limited to whether the denial was arbitrary, capricious or an abuse of discretion (NRS 202.3663).
  11. After issuance: the permit is valid 5 years from the date of issuance (NRS 202.366(4)). Carry the permit together with proper identification whenever you are in actual possession of a concealed firearm, and present both on a peace officer's request -- failure is a $25 civil penalty per violation (NRS 202.3667). Notify the issuing sheriff in writing within 30 days of an address change or a lost/stolen/destroyed permit; a duplicate costs $15 (NRS 202.367).
  12. Renew before the 5-year expiration: submit a renewal application signed under oath to the issuing sheriff, undergo a fresh NRS 202.366 investigation, pay the background-check fee plus $25 (plus a $15 statutory late fee if filed after expiration), and complete a course prescribed by the renewing sheriff to demonstrate continued competence (NRS 202.3677). The NvSCA renewal standard is a minimum 4-hour course in Nevada with a live-fire qualification but no written examination. County late-renewal windows differ: Washoe warns that failing to renew within 120 days after expiration requires re-applying as a new applicant, while LVMPD publishes a 'Late Renewal (up to 364 days)' fee of $40 plus the $39 background check.

Apply on the official Nevada site

What disqualifies you

Where to get the required training

Nevada does not publish a central list of certified instructors. Confirm directly with County sheriff of the county where the applicant resides (non-residents may apply to the sheriff of any Nevada county). The Nevada Department of Public Safety, Records, Communications and Compliance Division (RCCD, which also appears under the Nevada State Police branding) prescribes the application form by regulation and publishes the out-of-state recognition list, but does not itself issue permits. The Nevada Sheriffs' and Chiefs' Association (NvSCA) sets the statewide minimum training and instructor standards that sheriffs must apply under NRS 202.3657(3). that a course will be accepted before you pay for it.

Training providers in Nevada

Businesses in our directory that offer firearms training. These are not state-verified as certified permit instructors — check against the official list above, or ask the provider directly.

All firearms training in Nevada →

Reciprocity

Carrying into Nevada

Nevada recognizes permits from 28 other jurisdictions.

Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming

30 jurisdictions honor a Nevada permit

Derived from what each of those states officially publishes.

Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming

Official Nevada reciprocity page Full reciprocity matrix →

Building your own in Nevada

Build for personal use
Prohibited
Serial number required
Yes

Nevada effectively PROHIBITS building a firearm for personal use, and the litigation over these provisions is now resolved in the State's favor. NRS 202.3635(1): 'A person shall not manufacture or cause to be manufactured or assemble or cause to be assembled a firearm that is not imprinted with a serial number issued by a firearms importer or manufacturer in accordance with federal law and any regulations adopted thereunder' unless the firearm (a) has been rendered permanently inoperable, (b) is an antique firearm, or (c) has been determined to be a collector's item under 26 U.S.C. Chapter 53 or a curio or relic under 18 U.S.C. Chapter 44. 'Assemble' means 'to fit together component parts'; 'manufacture' means 'to fabricate, make, form, produce or construct by manual labor or machinery.' Because a private individual is not a federally licensed importer or manufacturer and cannot issue such a serial number, an unlicensed person cannot lawfully build a firearm in Nevada. Penalty: gross misdemeanor for a first offense; CATEGORY D FELONY for a second or subsequent offense (NRS 193.130). Supporting provisions: NRS 202.363(1) bars possessing, purchasing, transporting or receiving an unfinished frame or receiver unless the person is a firearms importer or manufacturer or the unfinished frame/receiver is federally required to be, and has been, imprinted with a serial number -- so acquiring an '80% receiver' is itself unlawful. NRS 202.3625(1) bars selling, offering to sell or transferring an unfinished frame or receiver on parallel terms. NRS 202.364(1) bars possessing, selling, offering to sell, transferring, purchasing, transporting or receiving any firearm without a serial number, except by a law enforcement agency or a firearms importer/manufacturer, or where the firearm has been rendered permanently inoperable, was manufactured before 1969, is an antique firearm, or is a collector's item/curio or relic. Each carries the same gross-misdemeanor-then-category-D-felony penalty. NRS 202.3645 created a one-time wind-down allowing sale of unfinished frames/receivers or unserialized firearms to importers, manufacturers or licensed dealers before January 1, 2022; that window has closed. LITIGATION RESOLVED: a Lyon County district court had declared NRS 202.253(9), 202.3625 and 202.363(1) unconstitutionally vague and permanently enjoined their enforcement. The Nevada Supreme Court, en banc, REVERSED in Sisolak v. Polymer80, Inc., 140 Nev., Advance Opinion 30, 546 P.3d 819 (No. 83999, decided April 18, 2024), holding that 'the terms used to define unfinished frame or receiver have ordinary meanings that provide sufficient notice of what the statutes proscribe, such that it cannot be said that vagueness pervades their texts,' that the statutes are general intent statutes that do not lack a scienter requirement, and that they 'do not pose a risk of arbitrary or discriminatory enforcement.' The injunction is therefore gone and these provisions are enforceable. Note that NRS 202.3635 -- the provision that actually bars building a firearm -- was not among the enjoined sections, so the home-manufacture prohibition was never suspended. SERIALIZATION vs REGISTRATION: these statutes require a federally issued serial number on the firearm; they do not create a state firearm registry, and nothing in NRS 202.3625-202.3645 provides a mechanism for a private individual to apply to Nevada for a serial number on a self-made firearm. The pre-1969 exception in NRS 202.364(1)(b)(2) applies to POSSESSION of an unserialized firearm, not to newly manufacturing one.

NRS 202.253(9) (definition of 'unfinished frame or receiver'), 202.3625, 202.363, 202.3635, 202.364, 202.3645 (added by 2021 Nev. Stat. 3223-3224, AB 286), codified under the heading 'Untraceable Firearms'

Federal law, gunsmithing schools, and tools →

Statutes

What we could not confirm

  • FEES VARY BY COUNTY, though the reported $99 initial / $64 renewal are now confirmed for BOTH of Nevada's two largest counties rather than just one. NRS fixes only the sheriff's component (up to $60 initial, exactly $25 renewal) plus a pass-through equal to the Central Repository/FBI 'nonvolunteer rate.' Clark County (LVMPD) publishes $60 + $39 = $99 new and $25 + $39 = $64 renewal on a fee table headed 'Effective July 1, 2026', and Washoe County publishes the same $99/$64 totals. The remaining fifteen counties publish their own totals and were NOT checked; a $39 pass-through is a local figure, not a statutory one, so a smaller county could differ. Confirm the amount with the specific sheriff before you pay.
  • COUNTY DIVERGENCE ON LATE RENEWAL. NRS 202.3677(2) sets only a flat $15 late fee for renewing after expiration and says nothing about a deadline after which you must start over. The counties have filled that gap differently: Washoe's fee schedule states a $15.00 late fee 'within 120-days after expiration' and its application packet warns that beyond 120 days you must re-apply as a new applicant, while LVMPD publishes a 'Late Renewal (up to 364 days)' application fee of $40.00 (a $79.00 total with the background check). Check your own sheriff's cutoff -- letting a permit lapse can mean repeating the full 8-hour course instead of the 4-hour renewal course.
  • CLARK COUNTY LISTS A DISQUALIFIER THAT IS NOT IN THE STATUTE. LVMPD's published disqualifier list includes 'Medical Marijuana card holder', which appears nowhere in NRS 202.3657(4). It presumably flows from the federal prohibition on unlawful drug users in 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(3) reaching Nevada applicants through the NRS 202.3657(3) requirement that the applicant be 'qualified to possess a handgun under state and federal law'. Whether other sheriffs apply it the same way was not verified, and the federal question is contested in litigation elsewhere. The `disqualifiers` array in this record lists the statutory grounds only.
  • THE `training.hours` FIELD CANNOT EXPRESS BOTH FIGURES. The value 8 is the NvSCA statewide minimum for a NEW permit; a RENEWAL requires a minimum of 4 hours. Both are floors -- the standards state that 'nothing precludes an instructor from providing additional training', and NRS itself prescribes no hours at all, so an individual sheriff may approve only longer courses and commercial classes are often longer.
  • NvSCA STANDARDS PROVENANCE. The standards document I read verbatim is the copy published by Churchill County, Nevada (a county government site). Its internal heading -- 'Revised February 2023, effective April 2023 by the NvSCA CCW Subcommittee' -- matches what the Nevada Sheriffs' and Chiefs' Association states on nvsca.com ('reviewed and revised 2023 ... effective April 21, 2023'), so the two agree, but I could not download the .docx directly from nvsca.com and a newer unpublished revision cannot be ruled out. NvSCA also keeps the 'denied instructors' list behind a members-only tab, so it is not publicly checkable.
  • OFFICIAL APPLICATION URL: Nevada has no statewide online application, re-confirmed 2026-09-15. NRS 202.3657(1) says the form is 'prescribed by regulation of the Department' but is 'furnished by the sheriff of each county upon request,' and the RCCD CCW page publishes no downloadable statewide form -- the only application links on it are for civil-applicant and Brady background checks. The URL given is the RCCD hub page; the actual application comes from the individual county sheriff (e.g. Washoe uses a county e-form, and LVMPD offers both a walk-in packet and an online 'Apply for a CCW Permit Online' flow).
  • INSTRUCTOR REGISTRY is null because Nevada publishes no statewide public list of approved CCW instructors. The NvSCA standards confirm the structure: a prospective instructor submits a resume and lesson plan to the sheriff of the county where most of their training will occur, 'Every CCW instructor in Nevada must be approved by a Nevada Sheriff', and once one sheriff approves a person 'all other Nevada Sheriffs must recognize that person as an approved instructor' -- yet the only central artifact is the members-only 'denied instructors' list on nvsca.com. Washoe County's page states plainly that 'Each county maintains a list of instructors licensed in their county.' An instructor list must therefore be resolved per county.
  • NON-RESIDENT PERMITS are clearly available -- NRS 202.3657(1) lets a non-resident apply to the sheriff of any Nevada county, and LVMPD confirms it accepts out-of-state applicants -- but the training is the practical catch, and it is county-scoped. The NvSCA standards require that a non-resident's course be taken 'within the state of Nevada, and in the county in which the person will apply for the non-resident permit', falling back to 'the nearest county that does' have approved instructors only if the chosen county has none; LVMPD states flatly 'No out of state certifications accepted.' So a non-resident cannot satisfy the requirement from home and must travel to Nevada for an 8-hour class plus live fire, and then appear in person for fingerprints and a photograph. Per-county non-resident scheduling practice across the other counties was not verified.
  • THE RECIPROCITY LIST IS REGENERATED EVERY YEAR and states can drop on or off. The captured list is the 2026 edition, effective July 01, 2026; it remains the current one as of 2026-09-15 (the parallel 2027 URL returns HTTP 404). Under NRS 202.3689 the Department must prepare the next list on or before July 1, 2027, at which point this array must be re-checked. Because the criteria are mechanical -- does the state require pre-issuance training, and is its permit database reachable by Nevada officers at all times over a national law enforcement telecommunications network -- a state can lose recognition through a database change alone, with no change in its permit law.
  • TWO OFFICIAL SITES BLOCK AUTOMATED ACCESS, so two facts rest on mirrors rather than the origin. lvmpd.com returns HTTP 403 to every automated request (browser user-agent and fetch tool alike), so the Clark County fee table and requirements page were read from Internet Archive captures dated 2026-09-14 and 2026-07-03 respectively -- both recent, but a change made at the origin in the last day or two would not be visible. nvcourts.gov likewise returns 403 to the fetch tool and its opinion PDF resisted local text extraction, so Sisolak v. Polymer80 was read from the copy posted by the Nevada Attorney General. A reader who needs certainty on the Clark County fee should open lvmpd.com in a normal browser.
  • DO NOT TRUST PAGE-SUMMARIZER OUTPUT FOR NEVADA STATUTORY TEXT. On the prior pass, one fetch-and-summarize of NRS 202.3657 returned FABRICATED content, claiming the statute requires U.S. citizenship and 6 months of Nevada residency -- neither appears anywhere in the actual section. On this pass a web search likewise asserted that NRS 202.3657 was amended in the 2025 session, which the statute's own history line ('Added to NRS by 1995, 2721; A ... 2021, 601') contradicts. Every statutory fact in this record was taken from the raw chapter HTML downloaded and read verbatim, and every quoted document was text-extracted rather than summarized.

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