Is there anyway you can check on the status of your handgun permit app. the first time (last year) the process took 2 months(normal). Well this time it has been 9 weeks at this point, and still nothing. Now the concern is, I am going out of state, the 4th of Nov. and will not be back in 90 days. See I have a brand new Para 14-45 at the funstore PAYED FOR but can't get it yet.

Start calling and rattle some cages.

I talked to a trooper(the only one who does firearm stuff in my Barracks) he said it had been "sent to Trenton" I really don't want to raise Hell with the state police, for obvious reasons. This whole process makes me irritated

Sorry. I am not sure of the obvious reason?

I talked to a trooper(the only one who does firearm stuff in my Barracks) he said it had been "sent to Trenton" I really don't want to raise Hell with the state police, for obvious reasons. This whole process makes me irritated

 

Do you think they will "come after you" or start writing you parking tickets? Permits are their job. Go and make some noise. The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

What u can do is explain your situation and see what they say, worst case scenario is they say tough sh1t

The obvious reasons hmmmmmm, well no, I'm not afraid they'll come after me, but these guys around here are known for "loosing" your paperwork thus delaying you permit issuance 3, 4, 5 months. The last time they didn't call me to tell me my permits were there til 12 days after the permits were issued. This kind of thing, in my book is inexcusable. Their attitude towards gun ownership is far too cavalier.

You can make their lives a bit more miserable too by calling their bosses with documented instances of their incompetance/spiteful behavior, etc. Everybody has a boss, and if you complain enough to their boss it will flow downhill.

That only works when their boss has a desire to see a job done right. Since their boss is probably the one who quietly told them to delay as much as possible he'll probably just get a pat on the back for a job well done

Yeah, handgun permits should not be a separate process once you have your FID card. All it does is unnecessarily consume police resources and slow down the local economy. But I guess that makes too much sense.

 

Either way, it does nothing to slow or stop the bad guys from getting guns. Maybe those police resources can be shifted from good guy to bad guys. But that probably makes too much sense also.