(From discussion here .)Indiana has no training requirement or qual course for an LTCH; fog a mirror, fork over the cash, and you can carry for either five years or the rest of your life, depending on how much cash you forked over. The downside to this is that it really hampers reciprocity in states with strict training requirements. I've mentioned before that New Mexico, with its baroque caliber-related, pistol/revolver qualifications, does not recognize my Hoosier CCW.For this reason, a faction of state gun owners were championing the idea of some sort of higher-tierpermit, one with a training and qualification requirement, which would hopefully be recognized in more states than the existing sheet of pink mimeograph paper. (You have to cut a Hoosier permit out yourself, dotted lines being helpfully provided for this purpose, and if it's a lifetime one, you might wanna laminate that thing.)The thing is that in a few other states that already have these tiered permits, a big sweetener for them was the fact that the upper echelon permit allowed you to carry more places, and there's already hardly anyplace you can't go in Indiana with an LTCH. I don't believe they'll allow carry into K-12 schools or courtrooms, and so there's no real upside to a "Platinum LTCH" here unless you travel a lot, and you can already get most of that covered with UT or FL non-resident permits. The fear of myself and others was that, if they introduced this "Platinum LTCH", our existing no-training, no-qual permits would be put at peril.The solution? Pass the Upper Tier LTCH program on a bill that replaces the existing one with Constitutional Carry; in effect, going to an Alaska-type system, or one like Arizona's, except that we would leave intact the fact that you can still tote pretty much anywhere. (Reading the fine print on AZ's constitutional carry law, you need a permit to go anyplace that pours beer, which means any restaurant that serves food that doesn't come in brightly-colored cardboard boxes with pictures of clowns on them.)