The deadline for pistol license re-certification is January 31.
By any measure, only a small portion of the 1+ million license holders have done so. I have seen estimates of around 25%. I did mine months ago and it took like 1.5 – 2 months for NYSP to process it. There are going to be a lot of unhappy people in the near future.
Newly elected Monroe Co. Sheriff Todd Baxter sums it up:
“… There’s no process in place for when D-Day comes and your permit is revoked. There’s just no process for the recovery of weapons. Everybody in Albany is confused. I implore New York state to come up with come guidance in this area …”
Don’t hold your breath waiting on that happening.
On a somewhat unrelated, but timely, Tweet from Fred Dicker:
Anybody hear anything of consequence from John Flanagan in months?An idea, a proposal, a suggestion, a comment, a vision, a program, a platform?
— Fredric U. Dicker (@fud31) January 1, 2018
Nope, not a peep from him nor any of the other Republican “leaders” in the legislature.
Tried to re-certify online today. “Unexpected system error occurred – Try again later”