Congrats on getting your permit. One kind of "side note"(not to hi-jack the thread or anything) but isn't is sad that we've been so conditioned that when we actually stand up and start exercising our Constitutional Right to Bear Arms that we feel like we're breaking the law.
I guess I didn't really go through that because I started "packin' heat" when I was 18 and we moved to AZ. I picked up a '58 Remington Cap n' Ball six gun and carried it for 3 years until I was legal to buy a cartridge handgun and since AZ. was, at the time(and still is) an open carry State there was no law to break. I continued to carry after I got a cartridge handgun and found it hard to get out of the habit when we moved to Tennessee in '95. Then, we got Carry Permits here and I jumped in and got one the first year they were out. I've had one ever since and even though I don't carry as much as I should it's nice to be "legal" for those times that I do feel like "packin' heat".LOL