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From my experience, I would _strongly_ suggest submitting your prints electronically to FDLE (Florida Dept of Law Enforcement) for your FL CCW application. Last year I flew to Tallahassee and got printed at the Leon County Sheriff's Office. (It's not far from the airport, by the way, good people at the office who did not get all excited & hyperventilated about someone applying for CCW. YMMV dramatically elsewhere.) I flew down and got printed before 12pm, completed my application with photos, notarization, etc and dropped it in the mail ~3pm. Less than 3 weeks later, I got my FL CCW in the mail. It was that fast. Be sure to exactly follow the directions (provided on FL's Dept of Ag & Consumer Svcs website and with the materials enclosed with your application), and you should be good to go.

Let me emphasise: You will get a paper receipt when you submit the prints electronically at the Sheriff's Office. DO NOT lose this! IIRC, you must include this receipt with the application. I think you also have to write the code # or something like that on the application itself.

Contrast this with my NY pistol permit application a few years back. (Upstate NY, not NYC. BIG difference.) Applied in April, had to wait nearly 6 full months until I got my permit in the mail, signed by the judge. (Just in time for the election a couple of weeks later.) I still had to go to the county clerk to sign it and get my thumbprint on the chit. (It's a chit because in the county where I got it, it is a small rectangle of paper that can get easily mutilated over the years, unlike the nice, laminated cards you get in states with more modern CCW programs.)