North Dakota Concealed Carry Permit

North Dakota has no state law against building a firearm for one's own personal use, and no state statute requires serialization, marking, or registration of a self-manufactured firearm. This conclusion is drawn from a full text search of every chapter of Title 62.1 (62.1-01 through 62.1-05, current code PDFs last modified 2026-04-09) for 'manufactur', 'serial', 'assemble', 'homemade', 'personal use', 'untraceable', and 'undetectable' — the only substantive hits were definitional references to antique firearms and to federally licensed collectors/dealers/importers/manufacturers. It is an assertion of a negative rather than an affirmative authorization: no ND statute expressly grants a right to self-manufacture either. Two important limits do apply. (1) N.D.C.C. § 62.1-03-05 makes it an offense to 'change, alter, remove, or obliterate any mark of identification on a firearm, including the name of the maker, model, or manufacturer's number,' or to knowingly possess a firearm so altered; possession of such a firearm creates a rebuttable presumption that the possessor made the alteration. Violation is a class A misdemeanor (§ 62.1-03-06). This restricts defacing an existing serial number but does not impose a marking duty on a firearm built without one. (2) Federal law is unaffected — the National Firearms Act, the Undetectable Firearms Act, the prohibition on manufacturing for sale or distribution without an FFL, and ATF's 2022 frame-and-receiver rule (27 C.F.R. pts. 447, 478, 479) all continue to apply independently of state law. N.D.C.C. § 62.1-01-03 preempts political subdivisions from enacting firearms ordinances more restrictive than state law, so no ND city or county may impose its own self-manufacture or serialization requirement.

No provision — N.D.C.C. tit. 62.1 (Weapons) consists only of chapters 62.1-01 through 62.1-05 (62.1-06 does not exist), and none of them prohibits or regulates the manufacture or assembly of a firearm for personal use, nor requires a serial number or state registration on a self-made firearm. Related provisions: N.D.C.C. § 62.1-03-05 (Prohibited alterations to firearms); N.D.C.C. § 62.1-01-03 (state preemption of local firearms ordinances); N.D.C.C. § 62.1-05-01 (machine guns, automatic rifles, silencers).

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What we could not confirm

• training.liveFireRequired is set to null rather than a boolean because it genuinely differs by license class: live fire (a 'firearms proficiency (shooting) test') is required for Class 1 but NOT for Class 2, and a Class 2 license is a fully valid ND concealed weapon license inside the state. Anyone consuming this field must branch on class.
• No training hour count exists. Neither N.D.C.C. § 62.1-04-03 nor any AG page states a minimum number of classroom or range hours; the requirement is defined by content and by passing the tests. 'hours' is therefore left empty rather than guessed.
• CONFLICT between the statute and the AG website on the duty to inform during permitless carry. N.D.C.C. § 62.1-04-04(2) says an individual carrying under § 62.1-04-02(2) 'shall inform a law enforcement officer of the concealed firearm IF THE OFFICER INQUIRES.' The AG's Constitutional Concealed Carry page states the individual 'MUST inform law enforcement that they are in possession of the firearm upon ANY IN-PERSON CONTACT by a law enforcement officer.' The AG guidance is stricter than the statutory text. I could not resolve which controls; the safe practical course is to follow the AG's broader instruction. Penalty for violating § 62.1-04-04 is a $20 noncriminal fee.
• The current text of § 62.1-04-02(2) contains no North Dakota residency requirement, so on its face permitless carry extends to out-of-state visitors holding a valid driver's license or nondriver ID from their own state or territory. The AG's Constitutional Concealed Carry page mirrors this language. However, the AG page never explicitly says 'non-residents may carry without a permit,' and the original 2017 law was residency-limited. I could not identify which subsequent legislative session removed the residency requirement, and I found no AG statement or ND court decision expressly confirming that non-residents may rely on § 62.1-04-02(2). Non-residents relying on this should be aware the point is inferred from statutory text, not from explicit official guidance.
• permitlessCarry.sinceYear is given as 2017 based on HB 1169 of the 65th Legislative Assembly, whose official title confirms it amended §§ 62.1-04-02 and 62.1-04-04 'relating to carrying concealed firearms or dangerous weapons.' I could not retrieve the enrolled bill text or a signature/effective date from ndlegis.gov (the document URLs 404'd and the bill-overview page returned an implausible signature date), so the specific effective date (conventionally August 1, 2017 for a ND act without an emergency clause) is not primary-source confirmed.
• reciprocity.honors is INFERRED, not directly published. North Dakota does not publish a list of 'states whose permits ND honors.' Its reciprocity page publishes only outbound lists and states the mutual-recognition rule ('ND will honor a valid concealed carry license/permit issued by a state that has agreed to recognize a North Dakota license'), consistent with the conditional statute § 62.1-04-03.1. I therefore used the 39-state 'States Recognizing The North Dakota Class 1 License' list as the honors set. A strict reading of § 62.1-04-03.1 requires the other state to let ND residents carry WITHOUT a separate license from that state, which is a slightly different test than 'recognizes a ND license,' so edge cases may exist. In practice this matters little because ND's permitless carry covers non-residents anyway.
• The ND reciprocity page carries no 'last updated' date, so the currency of the 39-state and 26-state lists cannot be verified. The page footer reads '2023 © North Dakota Attorney General's Office,' which may or may not reflect the list's revision date.
• Fee amounts come from the AG website ($60 application; $100 statutory cap on the test administrator's charge). Per § 62.1-04-03(5) the official fee schedule — including the fingerprint-based federal criminal history record check cost — lives in the Attorney General's administrative rules, which I did not retrieve. Whether the FBI/BCI record-check cost is bundled into the $60 or billed separately is not stated on the AG pages I read.
• homeManufacture is an assertion of a negative. I confirmed Title 62.1 comprises only chapters 62.1-01 through 62.1-05 (62.1-06 returns HTTP 404) and text-searched all five for manufacture/serial/assembly terms with no relevant hits. I did not search outside Title 62.1 (e.g. Title 12.1 criminal code) for any incidental provision, and North Dakota has no affirmative statute authorizing self-manufacture — the conclusion is 'no state prohibition found,' not 'expressly permitted.'
• I could not run web searches (session search budget was exhausted before this task began), so all sourcing was done by fetching known official URLs directly. It is possible an official ND page I did not discover contains additional or contradicting detail. All statute PDFs used were served by ndlegis.gov with Last-Modified 2026-04-09, i.e. after the 2025 (69th Assembly) regular session, so they should reflect current law as of 2026-08-10.
• Place restrictions (where carry is prohibited even with a license or under constitutional carry) were not enumerated here; they are in N.D.C.C. ch. 62.1-02 and were outside the requested fields.