I was just a few days shy of 5 full months in NCC as well. There is no fast forward for this process, unfortunately. I think that some of the folks that have to do the work at the A.G.s office and SBI, probably hate it because they are rabid big government types and hate the idea of an armed populace as was the case with the lady that did my fingerprints. While others are just overwhelmed with the number of permit requests that they have been getting in the last few years. Either way, it isn't much of a priority and they don't apply a lot of resources to the processing of the requests. What is surprising is that it gets done at all. Most bureaucratic nonsense is put into place to discourage people from going through the process either by making it expensive or so difficult and time consuming that the average person gives up in disgust. Hang in there it will show up in the mail sooner than you think.
