Never.
Never.
No F*ing way, I will either wait till this crap is thrown out or move to VA before I bow down and get a HQL. Hell, I went to look at the MSP HQL website and the damn site has has an invalid security certificate. What a joke!
My wife and I applied for our HQL's on October 3. I looked online today (October 10) and my license was already issued. My license number was xxxxxx
It was relatively painless. Prints and applications came to about $100 each.
You might want to hit "edit" and remove the lic number. Like it or not, that number is now part of your personal identifying information. No sense broadcasting.
Went active less than 24 hrs after application was submitted. The fix, apparently, is in.