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Indeed, this actually happened to a buddy of mine about two years back. We had both taken the CHL course together and were waiting on our liscenses from the State, but hadn't recieved them yet.

My buddy was with one of his friends whom was pulled over for a traffic violation. The officer had also asked my friend for ID, so he produced it and the officer went to go "run" it. When he returned, the Officer questioned my buddy as to why he had not immediately produced his CHL when the officer asked him for it. Friend explained that while he had applied for his CHL, he had not received it back from the State yet. The Officer pretty much explained to him that his "system" (I'm assuming the police database system) showed that he CHL was actually active and issued - and they both figured that the liscense was actually still in route to him. My friend was glad the that officer was fairly cool and respectful about it - after all if he didn't believe him, he could have made it a much more painful experience. Ironically, he never received that CHL as it was lost in the mail. How about that? Finding out that your CHL was granted from a Police Officer before it gets to you but after it was issued, and then having it lost in the mail? Talk about 2 pretty small coincidences!

At any rate, it all turned out OK for him (as he was not armed at the time) and he did manage to get the State to send him another License which he received OK. I guess the lesson is that while some instances might carry a very rare percentage of happening, they do still happen.