To anyone looking to get a “Sporting” or similar restriction lifted hopefully this will help. Please note that much depends on your town as well as your record.
My license was issued in a “red” town. Also on Comm2a’s website the numbers were not in my favor (
http://www.comm2a.org/index.php/8-home/222-2015-data). But despite having a clean record I received the dreaded restriction of “Sporting”. Fast forward three years, my wife and I decided to move, luckily, to a green town (it may have made me like the house a little more lol). Doing research online and here it seemed the best approach was to have my old town expire my license, then start the process from scratch in my new town. Which meant paperwork, $100.00, blah-blah.
Having this information I left voicemails for my old town’s police department briefly explaining the situation and to please call me back. It took about a week but they did call me back. They advised me to simply proceed to re-apply in my new town stating that expiring my license with firearms in the house was not a good idea, and depending on their policies they will issue me a new LTC. Basically instead of renewing my license a month ahead of time I will be doing it a few years ahead of time. So again, armed with this information, I called my new town’s police department (who I spoke with before) and discussed this with them. As I expected, due to the fact that they have been nothing but helpful up to this point, I had an appointment in less than a week. Yes, LESS THAN A WEEK (my old town had a four month wait).
To sum it up, I’ve had my appointment and if everything goes smoothly my unrestricted license should be here in about six weeks and I can’t wait. I have legally concealed carried many times under the sporting restriction but not having to worry about the legality of it will be a great feeling. I hope this information helps someone and big thanks to everyone on here for answering questions and big thanks to “mpoirier83” for putting up with my PMs.