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Arizona Concealed Carry Permit

Arizona allows permitless carry for non-prohibited adults 21+. A CWP (commonly "CCW permit") is still available and is what other states recognize.

Permitless carry is legal in Arizona

A non-prohibited adult aged 21 or older may carry a concealed handgun without a permit (since 2010). Arizona is a permitless ("constitutional") carry state. A.R.S. § 13-3102(A)(2) makes it misconduct involving weapons to carry a concealed deadly weapon (other than a pocket knife) on the person or within immediate control in or on a means of transportation ONLY 'if the person is under twenty-one years of age.' A non-prohibited person 21 or older therefore needs no permit to carry concealed. This has been the law since SB 1108 took effect in 2010. Note A.R.S. § 13-3102(A)(1) still applies at any age: concealed carry in furtherance of a serious offense, or failing to accurately answer a peace officer who asks whether you are carrying a concealed deadly weapon, remains an offense. The permit remains useful for reciprocity in other states, for the 19-20 military age band, and for the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act exemption.

Getting the permit anyway is still worth it for most people: other states recognize the permit, not your residency, so without one you generally cannot carry across state lines.

A.R.S. § 13-3102(A)(2)

There are 8 details on this page we could not confirm from a primary source. Read what they are before relying on this.

Requirements at a glance

Permit name Concealed Weapons Permit
Issuing authority Arizona Department of Public Safety - Concealed Weapons Permit Unit (AZ DPS CWPU)
System shall-issue
Minimum age 21 — 21 for the standard resident permit. A.R.S. § 13-3112(E)(2) also allows applicants at least 19 years of age who provide evidence of current military service or of an honorable discharge / general discharge under honorable conditions from the U.S. armed forces, National Guard, or reserves (DD Form 214). Permitless concealed carry is 21+.
Training required Yes
State fee $60 initial / $43 renewal — the state's own charge, not the total
Valid for 5 years
Processing time AZDPS asks applicants to allow 75 days for the CWPU to process a new application. Renewal applications should be submitted at least 90 days before expiration.
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.

State fee $60
Fingerprinting $15–$45 — our estimate; no vendor publishes a rate
Training course $75–$250 (private instructor)
Realistic total $150–$355 — includes an estimated component

A.R.S. § 13-3112(F) authorises only 'a reasonable fee determined by the director', so the $60 comes from the DPS fee schedule rather than the statute and can be changed administratively. Fingerprinting and training are both named on that schedule as separate third-party costs, and the fingerprint figure above is our estimate rather than a published rate. Arizona sets no hour count and requires no live fire — § 13-3112(N) is a menu, and a hunter-education or military route through it costs nothing, which would take the real low end down to about $75.

New permit $60.00; renewal $43.00; replacement card / profile change $10.00; LEOSA certificate of firearms proficiency $20.00. AZDPS states personal checks, business checks, and cash are not accepted. Fingerprinting and the training course are separate third-party costs not included above. A.R.S. § 13-3112(F) authorizes 'a reasonable fee determined by the director'; the dollar amounts come from the DPS fee schedule, not the statute, and can change administratively.

How to apply

  1. Confirm eligibility under A.R.S. § 13-3112(E): 21 or older (or 19+ with qualifying military service documentation), Arizona resident or U.S. citizen, not a prohibited possessor under state or federal law.
  2. Complete an acceptable firearms safety/competence option under A.R.S. § 13-3112(N) - a DPS-approved or NRA-certified course, hunter education, law enforcement or military training, or a qualifying current/expired out-of-state permit - and obtain the certificate or documentation.
  3. Obtain two complete sets of classifiable fingerprints on fingerprint cards with all boxes completed. DPS points applicants to Fieldprint locations or a local law enforcement agency. Renewals do not require new prints.
  4. Complete the application, either online through the DPS portal at https://azdpsccw.permitium.com/entry or on paper form DPS 802-07202.
  5. Submit the application with training documentation, the two fingerprint cards, and the $60 fee (no cash, no personal or business checks). Paper applications go to Concealed Weapon Permit Unit, PO Box 6488, Phoenix, AZ 85005.
  6. DPS runs the criminal history and prohibited-possessor background check and issues or denies the permit. Allow 75 days.
  7. The permit is valid five years. Renew using form DPS 802-07201 with the $43 fee at least 90 days before expiration; no new fingerprints and no new training are required for renewal.

Apply on the official Arizona site

What disqualifies you

Where to get the required training

Arizona does not publish a central list of certified instructors. Confirm directly with Arizona Department of Public Safety - Concealed Weapons Permit Unit (AZ DPS CWPU) that a course will be accepted before you pay for it.

Training providers in Arizona

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 Arizona →

Reciprocity

Carrying into Arizona

Arizona recognizes permits from 48 other jurisdictions.

Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming

34 jurisdictions honor a Arizona permit

Derived from what each of those states officially publishes.

Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming

Official Arizona reciprocity page Full reciprocity matrix →

Building your own in Arizona

Build for personal use
Allowed
Serial number required
No

Arizona has no state statute prohibiting a non-prohibited person from manufacturing a firearm for personal use, and no state firearm registration of any kind - A.R.S. § 13-3108 preempts political subdivisions from requiring firearm registration or licensing. No Arizona statute requires a serial number on a firearm built for your own use. The one marking provision, A.R.S. § 13-3114(E), applies only to guns manufactured AND SOLD in-state under that section: 'A firearm that is manufactured and sold in this state pursuant to this section shall have the words "made in Arizona" clearly stamped on a central metallic part such as the receiver or frame.' A personal-use build that is never sold falls outside it. A.R.S. § 13-3114 (the 2010 Arizona Firearms Freedom Act) also purports to exempt Arizona-made, Arizona-retained firearms from federal regulation; courts rejected identical Firearms Freedom Acts elsewhere (Montana Shooting Sports Ass'n v. Holder, 9th Cir. 2013), so it is not a defense to federal law. Two real limits: (1) A.R.S. § 13-3102(A)(6) and (A)(7) make it a class 6 felony to DEFACE a deadly weapon or knowingly possess a defaced one - 'deface' is defined in A.R.S. § 13-3101 as removing, altering, or destroying the manufacturer's serial number, so it reaches an obliterated factory serial, not a homemade gun that never bore one. (2) Federal law applies independently: the ATF 'Definition of Frame or Receiver' final rule (2021R-05F) and its marking consequences, the National Firearms Act, and 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) and 922(r); manufacturing for sale requires a federal license.

A.R.S. § 13-3114; A.R.S. § 13-3102(A)(6),(A)(7); A.R.S. § 13-3108

Federal law, gunsmithing schools, and tools →

Statutes

What we could not confirm

  • DIRECTIONAL AMBIGUITY ON THE DPS PAGE: the AZDPS 'Reciprocity and Recognition Agreements' tab presents state lists (a roughly 30-state 'without written agreement' group, a 7-8 state 'written agreement' group, and a 13-state 'not recognized' group: CA, CT, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NJ, NY, OR, RI, VT, WA) whose headings do not clearly state the direction. Those lists match the OUTBOUND direction (which states honor an Arizona permit) and are irreconcilable with the plain mandatory text of A.R.S. § 13-3112(Q), which recognizes ALL valid out-of-state permits with no exclusions. I resolved the conflict in favor of the statute for the inbound 'honors' field. Anyone relying on this should re-read the DPS tab headings directly.
  • DC AND U.S. TERRITORIES: § 13-3112(Q) recognizes a permit 'issued by another state or a political subdivision of another state.' The District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands are arguably not 'another state,' so I excluded DC and the territories from the honors list rather than guess. I found no official AZDPS or Attorney General statement resolving whether a DC concealed pistol license is recognized in Arizona. In practice this rarely matters because permitless carry covers any non-prohibited adult 21 or older.
  • 18-20 YEAR OLD OUT-OF-STATE PERMIT HOLDERS: it is not clear on the face of the statutes whether recognition under § 13-3112(Q) exempts an 18-20 year old holding a valid out-of-state permit from the under-21 concealed carry prohibition in § 13-3102(A)(2). I found no official Arizona AG opinion or DPS guidance. Someone under 21 should not assume an out-of-state permit lets them carry concealed in Arizona.
  • NO OFFICIAL CCW INSTRUCTOR REGISTRY: AZDPS publishes a searchable instructor directory only for LEOSA (retired law enforcement) instructors at /services/public/cwp/instructors. I found no official DPS-published public list of approved CCW firearms safety instructors for civilian permit applicants, so instructorRegistryUrl is null rather than pointed at the LEOSA list, which would be misleading.
  • TRAINING HOURS: no statutory or DPS-published minimum hour count or live-fire requirement exists for the CCW course. I set hours to empty and liveFireRequired to false on that basis. Individual DPS-approved courses commonly run about 8 hours and many include live fire, but that is instructor practice, not a legal requirement, and I could not confirm any official hour figure. If an Arizona Administrative Code rule imposes a course-content minimum, I did not locate it.
  • The new-application PDF (DPS 802-07202) returned unparseable binary through my fetch tool, so fee, age, fingerprint, and disqualifier details were confirmed from the AZDPS web page and the statute rather than from the form text itself.
  • Fee amounts ($60 / $43 / $10 / $20) are set administratively by the DPS director under § 13-3112(F), not fixed in statute, so they can change without a legislative amendment. Verify on the DPS fees tab before relying on them.
  • I did not exhaustively check the 2026 legislative session for amendments to Title 13, Chapter 31. The azleg.gov pages fetched are the current published statute versions, but I did not cross-check a session-law list for very recent enactments with delayed effective dates.

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