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by Jumping Frog
Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:33 am
Forum: The "Waiting Room"
Topic: Background check
Replies: 39
Views: 7231

Re: Background check

Lambda Force wrote:If we're going to fix it, how about "shall not be infringed"
:cheers2: :iagree: :cheers2: :iagree:

There we have common ground!
by Jumping Frog
Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:14 am
Forum: The "Waiting Room"
Topic: Background check
Replies: 39
Views: 7231

Re: Background check

Skiprr wrote:Maybe the solution will be for the DPS to file all applications so that, exactly on day 59, the plastic or notification goes to the mailroom--regardless of when the application evaluation and processing was completed. That way, there will be no perceived inequities, and no one starts to think that they are deserving of service faster than agreed.

Sixty days is 60 days. The DPS has no requirement to update a status on a Website--they do that only as a courtesy--and they have no requirement to deliver the license or notification any faster than 60 days. That's not my opinion, that's GC §411.177.

What remains my personal opinion is that it is a bad idea to contact the office of the Governor, or any other state agency, to complain about CHL processing speed at any time before the 60 days allowed by law has expired. Our state government has better things to do than handle complaints that are not valid. Don't demand special treatment. Let the DPS workers do their jobs. If they don't deliver as promised, then complain.
With all due respect, "maybe the solution" is to get the whole process away from a centralized bureaucracy and distributed back to a more local -- and accountable -- process.

There are other shall-issue states that still have stringent background check and training requirements, but they have the county sheriff issue the license. I know of many counties that routinely issue the license within 24 hours for a clean background and within a week for most other people. Local sheriffs are elected officials and thus more accountable to local people than some remote bureaucracy in Austin handling the licensing for 26 million residents. If you live in a county with a non-responsive sheriff, simply apply in a neighboring county. Sheriffs see the revenue they are missing and tend to clean up their act because they quickly realize it is a profitable service.

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