My CCW renewal is/was being held up???

[Capt Steve]

A month before my Arizona CCW was set to expire I sent in the renewal package, full app with a $43 money order. As the expiration date approached with no sign of new permit I emailed AZ Department of public safety and got no response.

it expired last week so I sent another email again with no reply. Finally I tried to call them and spent nearly an hour on hold {I was caller number 24} before reaching an agent. She checked her records and said the FBI had put a hold on my app but that it has been released and my permit {much like the proverbial check} is in the mail.

I explained to her that I am a lot more Ozzie Nelson than Osborne and had not had so much as a traffic ticket in 40+ years. She said the problem could be with someone else with the same name. Arizona does not require a permit for concealed carry so long as you are not a prohibited possessor {I am not} but explained that I would be traveling out of state soon and really needed a current permit.

She said they have to give the USPS a full 30 days to deliver so if I have not received it by 12/6/22 to call them back {oh boy, another hour on the phone} and they would reissue another permit. She then said I have to go now as I have an other 20 calls to answer...have a nice day. Seriously?

 

[bigwheelzip]

My Utah non-resident renewal got lost and issued 3 times before it arrived at my mailbox. Hope your luck is better.


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[UncleEd]

If AZ is anything like GA, then
the USPS is inundated by
millions and millions of "timely"
political ads. For one candidate
I think I've received around
six or seven in the last week.

 

[twodog max]

I apparently have the same name as a IRA activist that is on many lists worldwide. I have no control over what very distant kin from the old country do in their spare time but this association has held up 4473 clearance at times but my CHL I do not think so

 

[grover99]

If AZ is anything like GA, then
the USPS is inundated by
millions and millions of "timely"
political ads. For one candidate
I think I've received around
six or seven in the last week.

Plus it is the time of year for Medicare insurance enrollment. I have been buried in insurance ads

 

[Rudi]

Think DMV..........

 

[wood714]

To renew mine I go to the tax collectors office on the beach side.

Pay $60 or $70, they take a new pic and I leave with it.

 

[Vtgw938]

Don't have or should I say need a permit where I live. Makes it easy.

 

[wood714]

Don't have or should I say need a permit where I live. Makes it easy.

If Florida goes to constitutional carry, I'd still keep a carry permit for out of state road trips.

 

[Golddollar]

I think I have the record for delayed renewal of a carry permit. I used to travel a lot in Virginia so I got a non-resident carry permit. I always figured it was better to have a permit issued by the state I was standing in just in case I got pulled over, rather than trying to explain the concept of reciprocity by the side of the road at night.

My permit was scheduled to expire in September 2020. Not wanting to wait until the last minute, I dutifully sent in my renewal application, including the fee, in July 2020, over 2 month before the expiration date, which I thought was plenty of time. September passes by, I have no renewal permit and my existing one expires. No declarations of extensions for permits that were scheduled to expire. In late October I get a letter acknowledging receipt of my renewal application that I sent in July.

I finally received my renewal permit at the end of the year. For what it's worth, it was not backdated to the date of expiration of my prior license but issued with a current date. I know what was going on at the time but I have a hard time believing that there were so many more carry permit applilcations to turn renewals into a 5 month process.

 

[LVSteve]

I know what was going on at the time but I have a hard time believing that there were so many more carry permit applilcations to turn renewals into a 5 month process.

They probably weren't doing any, but never publicly admitted same.

Nevada has legislated that the state can take 120 days to do the checks associated with your CCW application, so we plan ahead. Then there is the unwritten stuff that you come up against when you go to Metro. Always watch out for the "make it up as they go along" approach from the government at all levels.

Had that malarkey the first weeks I was in the US. A woman at the SSA office refused to accept that immigration had the authority to stamp my passport "D/S" meaning "duration of stay". Essentially, I was good to go for the duration of my visa.

 

[Dave.357]

The mail man delivers fuel for my wood
Stove. Some of it doesn’t even burn well.

 

[BSA1]

I am into seven weeks on Kansas renewing my CCL. I know they are processing my application as they cashed my check for the fee. I don’t think the A.G. Office is anti-gun. As a retired Kansas Government bureaucrat I know first hand that the State Government is very disfunctionable.

Fortunately my wife’s CCL is current so when we made a trip to Oklahoma last week the gun we took was “hers”.

 

[pawngal]

You all made me check mine, 2 of of the 3 expire next year, 1 of those is AZ.

 

[Delta Expatriate]

I initially applied for my Mississippi enhanced carry permit back in either late January or early February of 2021. I went down to the Department of Public Safety location in Jackson, stood in line for an hour or so, turned in my application, and was fingerprinted, etc. I remember it was a Friday. I was told I would have to clear the FBI background check (which I knew), and it would likely be a few weeks before I received the permit (I was expecting three to four weeks). The next week we had some icy weather, shutting everything down for most of the week, so I was figuring it would likely take even longer. Then, Friday, two weeks to the day from when I applied, the permit arrived in the mail. But, it was not the enhanced carry permit, but rather the regular permit. I waited a couple of weeks, then went back down the DPS, again on a Friday, and again stood in line, and when my number came up, I pointed out the error to the clerk, and she prepared a new enhanced carry permit on the spot, and I left with it in my wallet. I have an extremely uncommon last name (there ain't many of us around, relatively speaking) and have always been cleared quickly when purchasing or receiving a firearm from a FFL.

The state bureaucracy got the permit to me very quickly (two weeks), but sent me the wrong permit! However, once the error was pointed out to them, it was immediately corrected. I hope it will go as quickly when it is time to renew in 2025 (Mississippi permits are for four years), assuming (and trusting) I am still around then. I hope I don't have the issues some of you have had.

I have learned from experience that usually, the best time to go to a government office where you have to wait in line is on a Friday afternoon, since the lines are not usually as long.

 

[Onomea]

My Utah non-resident renewal got lost and issued 3 times before it arrived at my mailbox. Hope your luck is better...

Too late for this now, but when in 2006 I initially got my Utah non-resident I was spending summers mostly in Hawaii, where I took the course, voted absentee from, and owned a home, but living/working in Japan. I asked Utah to send the permit to me c/o my instructor. Worked out well.

 

[SMSgt]

A month before my Arizona CCW was set to expire I sent in the renewal package, full app with a $43 money order. As the expiration date approached with no sign of new permit I emailed AZ Department of public safety and got no response.

it expired last week so I sent another email again with no reply. Finally I tried to call them and spent nearly an hour on hold {I was caller number 24} before reaching an agent. She checked her records and said the FBI had put a hold on my app but that it has been released and my permit {much like the proverbial check} is in the mail.

I explained to her that I am a lot more Ozzie Nelson than Osborne and had not had so much as a traffic ticket in 40+ years. She said the problem could be with someone else with the same name. Arizona does not require a permit for concealed carry so long as you are not a prohibited possessor {I am not} but explained that I would be traveling out of state soon and really needed a current permit.

She said they have to give the USPS a full 30 days to deliver so if I have not received it by 12/6/22 to call them back {oh boy, another hour on the phone} and they would reissue another permit. She then said I have to go now as I have an other 20 calls to answer...have a nice day. Seriously?

You should try calling the VA. That "4-minute wait time" will exceed 45 minutes before you give up.

 

[Racer X]

My Washington one I was able to renew by mail because of COVID changes for walk-in appts. Was turned around in about a week.

 

[SmithNut]

A month before my Arizona CCW was set to expire I sent in the renewal package, full app with a $43 money order. As the expiration date approached with no sign of new permit I emailed AZ Department of public safety and got no response.

it expired last week so I sent another email again with no reply. Finally I tried to call them and spent nearly an hour on hold {I was caller number 24} before reaching an agent. She checked her records and said the FBI had put a hold on my app but that it has been released and my permit {much like the proverbial check} is in the mail.

I explained to her that I am a lot more Ozzie Nelson than Osborne and had not had so much as a traffic ticket in 40+ years. She said the problem could be with someone else with the same name. Arizona does not require a permit for concealed carry so long as you are not a prohibited possessor {I am not} but explained that I would be traveling out of state soon and really needed a current permit.

She said they have to give the USPS a full 30 days to deliver so if I have not received it by 12/6/22 to call them back {oh boy, another hour on the phone} and they would reissue another permit. She then said I have to go now as I have an other 20 calls to answer...have a nice day. Seriously?

Didn't AZ go the way of concealed carry without the need for the permit?

Back in 2006 I was working for a company in Tucson and went through a CCW class, in the last class the instructors informed us that the State of AZ had decided that concealed carry didn't require a permit any more... ??

 

[LVSteve]

Didn't AZ go the way of concealed carry without the need for the permit?

Back in 2006 I was working for a company in Tucson and went through a CCW class, in the last class the instructors informed us that the State of AZ had decided that concealed carry didn't require a permit any more... ??

If you want to avoid the delay and cost of a NICS check, you still need a CCW in any state with constitutional carry. Also, CCW reciprocity with another state requires a permit, otherwise you cannot carry out of state.