So, I got my S.C. concealed weapons permit back in 2005 and you have to renew every 5 years.... it has always been that you could not apply for renewal until you were 90 days due and then they usually took pretty close to 90 days to process and mail you your new card. For the last two times at least I've applied on line and now you don't even have to pay. So, I expire this year on Oct. 10th and I go on line on July 11th and apply for renewal.... then I discover you can now apply 120 days out. First week of October comes around and I realize I have not gotten my new card. I go online and try to navigate their system the weekend of the 8th and no deal... I call I think I'm told by the automatic system I'm the 15th person in the cue..... so I end up sending an email... asking about my renewal as well as if there is a grace period. I put all my information in the email. Oh and to add to this saga... wife and I are headed out of town that weekend for three weeks. I get a reply on the 10th that "it takes 90 days to process a renewal". that's all the guy at SLED says (S.C. Law Enforcement Division) Nothing about a grace period. I figure I'll get the new permit when we get home.... day after we get home I realize then there was no card ...... So I send the guy who emailed me from SLED a follow up email asking what the deal is.... of course I have all kinds of paranoid thoughts.... he replies asking for my 'contact number'. I email him my cell phone number and then go on line... I actually can access the system this time and fill out the whole on line thing again applying for a renewal.... this is in Oct. 31st... I get a reply the next day from him that my second attempt worked and was processed on the 25th and new card would be in the mail this week. Huh? My Second attempt was on the 31st. But I figure I best leave well enough alone and just wait it out... finally, today my new card arrived. That's the good news.... the bad news is I can now once again buy guns from an FFL. The hypocrisy is if an FFL called in a back ground check on me I would be denied... but there is no back ground check here in S.C. with a concealed weapons permit.