I'm not sure if my town changed their application policy, but I wanted to ask you guys if the $18 money order for the mental health check is supposed to be handed in WITH your FID/p2p application?  I always thought this was normal procedure as I always submitted everything (application, mental health form, $18 money order) at the same time and then paid the $2 money orders for each p2p when I picked them up.

 

Now, my in-law and another family friend are trying to apply for the first time, but for whatever reason the PD is refusing to take their $18 mental health check payments and I'm starting to suspect this is only to delay processing.  I didn't take note of this until now and it's already been almost 3 months. 

 

This isn't normal.... right?

Every permit I ever applied for and received needed a 18 dollar money order first.

For just permits, yes.  I meant to say for the an initial FID application.  I remember being required to have all forms and payments otherwise they wouldn't take anything.  Now, three years later and they arent taking money orders...  and coincidentally taking longer to get that call

 have they switched to the online check process? alot of towns have switched

nope.  I applied for p2p's in the last 2 months and had to hand them the money order.  I asked about the online process then and was told they had no idea.

The $18 is for the NJSP background check, not the mental health check. On your initial application, the fingerprinting (and related fees) covers your initial NJSP background check. It's only on subsequent applications where you get charged the $18 for later background checks.

ohh..  that makes more sense.  thanks for clarifying that. 

On a related note, are pistol permits capped at a fee of $2 each? My local PD seems to want to charge $5 per permit. I will call them to clarify since a lot of the info that they have posted online seems unclear.

Pistol permits are $2, but FID is $5. I believe they're capped by statute, but I'll let someone else confirm.

Pistol permits are $2, but FID is $5. I believe they're capped by statute, but I'll let someone else confirm.

correct

New Milford has switched to the online fee, so it's just the 2 per permit, which they specifically ask for cash preferably as so they don't have to deal with cashing the money orders

My town now does the initial $18-20 money order deal online. So much easier IMO