Indiana Concealed Carry Permit

Indiana has no firearm registry of any kind and no state manufacturing license for a non-commercial builder. Limits that still apply: a person prohibited under IC 35-47-2-1.5 or 18 U.S.C. 922(g) may not make or possess a firearm; IC 35-47-5-8 makes knowing or intentional ownership or possession of a machine gun a Level 5 felony (IC 35-47-5-10 excepts persons in compliance with the federal NFA); and federal law independently governs home manufacture, including the Undetectable Firearms Act, the NFA, the prohibition on manufacturing for sale without an FFL, and ATF Final Rule 2021R-05F, which requires an FFL to serialize a privately made firearm it takes into inventory. Nothing here should be read as covering the separate question of building a firearm for sale or distribution, which triggers federal licensing.

No Indiana statute regulates the manufacture or assembly of a firearm for personal use. Confirmed by full-text search of IC 35-47 (Weapons and Instruments of Violence) in the 2026 Indiana Code: the article contains no provision on unfinished frames or receivers, self-assembled or 'untraceable' firearms, 3-D printed firearms, or serialization/registration of a self-made firearm. IC 35-47-2-18 is the only serial-number statute and it reaches only pre-existing marks: 'No person shall: (1) remove, obliterate, or alter the importer or manufacturer's serial number on any firearm; or (2) possess any firearm on which the importer or manufacturer's serial number has been removed, obliterated, or altered' (Level 5 felony). A firearm that never bore an importer's or manufacturer's serial number is outside its terms. IC 35-47-11.1-3 and -4 also void local ordinances that restrict the lawful manufacture of firearms, so no Indiana city or county may impose a serialization rule.

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What we could not confirm

• permitSystem is recorded as shall-issue, which is the standard classification and matches the objective 'proper person' definition in IC 35-47-1-7, but the text of IC 35-47-2-3(g) still conditions issuance on the Superintendent finding the applicant 'has a proper reason for receiving a license' and 'is of good character and reputation.' Those clauses read as discretionary on their face. I found no official ISP page defining how they are applied, and no post-Bruen Indiana guidance or litigation confirming they are non-discretionary. The point is largely academic because no permit is needed to carry at all.
• validityYears is set to 5 because that is the standard term (IC 35-47-2-4(a)(1)), but the schema's single number cannot express that Indiana also issues a lifetime LTCH valid for the life of the holder, and that the two may be applied for and held concurrently. A lifetime license is automatically revoked if the holder ceases to be a proper person. Licenses of police officers, sheriffs and deputies, and federal law enforcement officers with 20+ years of service are also valid for life.
• The permit's separate sub-types are not captured: ISP's fee schedule distinguishes 'Hunting and Target' from 'Personal Protection' licenses, a distinction tied to the 'proper reason' language in IC 35-47-2-3(g). I could not find a current official page explaining the practical difference between the two, and the ISP fee table appears to still carry pre-2020 fee figures that the statute has superseded.
• reciprocity.honors lists DC even though IC 35-47-2-21(b) says only 'other states or foreign countries.' Whether that phrase reaches the District of Columbia and U.S. territories (PR, VI, GU, MP, AS) is not addressed by the statute, by ISP, or by any official source I located, so I omitted the territories rather than guess. This is low-stakes in practice: a visitor 18 or older who is not a prohibited person may carry in Indiana with no permit regardless of what license they hold.
• fees.renewal is recorded as 0 based on the unqualified statutory text of IC 35-47-2-4(b) and IC 35-47-2-3(d). The ISP fee page carries the ambiguous line 'Fee exemption applies to the initial license application,' which could be read to suggest renewals are treated differently. The statute does not draw that distinction, and renewal applicants still pay the $12.95 IDEMIA fingerprint fee and the IN.gov processing fee either way.
• homeManufacture.serialRequired is set to false on the strength of a negative finding: a full-text keyword search of IC 35-47 in the official 2026 Indiana Code turned up no provision on self-made firearms, unfinished receivers, or serialization of privately made firearms. Negative findings are weaker than a positive citation. I did not exhaustively search Indiana Code titles outside Title 35, and local ordinances are preempted but not something I checked individually.
• No official ISP page states a typical real-world processing time. The 60-day figure is the statutory deadline in IC 35-47-2-6(a), not observed performance; ISP's own site warns of delays in scheduling fingerprint appointments due to application volume.
• Indiana publishes no list of state-certified instructors because no training is required, so instructorRegistryUrl is null rather than unverified.
• Everything above reflects the 2026 Indiana Code as compiled by the Indiana General Assembly on 2026-06-23. Any act from a 2026 session taking effect after that compilation date would not be reflected; I did not separately audit the 2026 session bill list.