It’s just insane there.
In NM it’s fill out the 4473, show your driver’s license and away you go. Did 3 in one afternoon at the height of my S&W collecting. Maybe 30 minutes total time.
Here’s our Governor at the range.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qesnbpgO304
Heh, that is even quicker than VA. I could never seem to get the transaction down to under an hour in VA. They always had to hang on the phone forever. But the waiting period here in MD is the pits.