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Jumping Frog wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote: Government is what it is, even in Texas.

Well, let's not find ourselves accepting poor performance just because that it what we are "used to".

I am aware of multiple states (and counties) that also perform FBI criminal background checks where it takes them between 10 minutes to 24 hours to issue a license. If a sheriff pulls an FBI report on the computer and it comes back clean, that takes all of about 60 seconds. I have personal friends who pull such reports and that is their experience.

I applied for a PA non-resident in October, 2014. You must do that in person at a sheriff's office and I picked Lancaster County, in the middle of the city of Lancaster. I was 8th in line at about 10am if I remember correctly. They used my Texas CHL as the basis but still did a background check and made a photo ID for me. I was done in less than 1 hour. I was trying to watch and time each of the steps in the process. My guess is that the background check step was about 10 minutes. By far the longest wait was for my turn to have the picture taken.