April 2011 Applications

[Iunnrais]

Grats to y'all. Now you too can experience the '400lb gorilla in your pocket' syndrome when the hostess at Chilis seats 3 cops at the table next to you on your first weekend carrying.

[Fedaykin]

Team April

It's Here !! I have PLASTIC !!

My Texas CHL arrived today at exactly 2:00 PM. The postmark shows that it was mailed from Austin on Friday, 27-May-2011 and the Texas DPS CHL web site indicated mailed on the same day. Maybe they were trying to clear out all the approved CHL's prior to Memorial Day weekend. It only took the Post Office one day to deliver the letter to me in San Antonio. An interesting item is that the return address is zip code 78773, which is the Texas DPS Licensing and Registration Service Office, but the mailed from postmark zip code was 78752. Since the postmark was a machine applied postage mark, maybe 78752 is where the CHL's are actually processed.

Time from the day Texas DPS received my documents to the day I received my CHL was only 38 days total which works out to 28 working days.

My time line was:

1/1/1996 to 4/15/2011......Procrastinated taking the CHL class
4/15/2001......................Registered for the CHL class
4/16/2011......................Attended CHL class in San Antonio
4/17/2011......................Passed shooting qualification
4/18/2011......................Submitted online CHL Application with Texas DPS. Made fingerprint appointment
4/19/2011......................Electronic fingerprints taken. Mailed documents by USPS with Delivery Confirmation
4/20/2011......................USPS confirms delivery of documents to Texas DPS
4/27/2011......................Fingerprints rejected by FBI due to unreadable. Rescheduled fingerprinting with L1.
4/28/2011......................Second set of electronic fingerprints taken by L1 and submitted to DPS.
5/13/2011......................1st update: Background Ck-Under review, CHL-Print pending completion of application review
5/25/2011......................2nd update: Background Check-Completed, CHL-Manufacturing Pending
5/26/2011 .....................3rd update: CHL-Manufacturing
5/27/2011......................4th update: CHL-Mailed
5/28/2011......................Received Texas CHL at 2:00 PM exactly!

Now is time to load up and head on down for a Wally Walk or as we're more likely to do in San Antonio: A River Walk on the River Walk!!

Keep up the Good Fight Team April, I'll be pulling for you. You'll have your plastic in no time at all!

Shhh.... ya'll don't tell anyone, but I have the sneaking suspicion that Ice Life is some sort of engineer. Either degreed or vocational, but an engineer nonetheless...

[stealthfightrf17]

The wait is almost over, went to manufacturing this morning

[tanker1983]

I bet you have it by Friday.

[snatchel]

Didnt come in the mail....

[johnson0317]

Grats to y'all. Now you too can experience the '400lb gorilla in your pocket' syndrome when the hostess at Chilis seats 3 cops at the table next to you on your first weekend carrying.

Lol. I know what you mean. I was driving home yesterday when two city PD cars pulled in behind me, and followed me. Could not figure out what I could have done wrong, but was planning how to pull over, get my ID, what I would say, and so forth. About a mile later they go swinging off into the Chik-Fil-A, a local favorite for the LEOs. Took a deep breath, smiled, and kept on going.

RJ

[Teamless]

Could not figure out what I could have done wrong, but was planning how to pull over, get my ID, what I would say, and so forth.

One thing to remember, is you are NOT doing anything wrong, so don't act like you are.
Once you get that in your head, solidly, most of those jitters will go away oh and trust me, I did the same thing, but now when I see a cop, it doesn't bother me a bit

[stealthfightrf17]

Finely mailed, now need to set up camp up the street at the mail box

[BeetleB]

So I went from my mail box on 5/2 to "mailed" status update on 6/2. I imagine a couple of days it will be in hand! Not bad compared to other stories I've read about.

[MMac]

Got my plastic TODAY!!

28 Business days from when I mailed it to received it, 40 days total.

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY

[Beanie-Bean]

Congrats, MMac!

[Bocephus]

Plastic arrived today !!!!!....woo-hoo !!!!

45 days from dropping my packet at the post office to it arriving in the mailbox.

I'm a happy boy !

Bo

[johnson0317]

Congrats to you guys! Puts a little spring in your step, huh?

[Hawken35]

YES!!!!!!!!
Plastic in hand.

Not bad, 36 days from official receipt, 25 business days....

For the time being carry will be a Glock 23.....

[Beanie-Bean]

Congrats, guys!