Does HQL Approval Come With a Plastic Laminated ID Card?

[nbklaw]

I was under the impression, perhaps erroneously, that a HQL ID card was issued upon approval. I got a letter emailed to me after I applied saying I was approved, and that "[t]his correspondence serves as your Handgun Qualification License." Does that mean that (1) a plastic card is no longer issued; or that (2) the Letter serves as such until you receive the plastic card; or (3) that there never was a plastic card?

 

[Bcjustin]

No, they used to mail cards, but not anymore.
I have just shown the FFL the email I received containing my HQL number when I’ve made my last couple purchases and that was sufficient for them. No actual document was needed. They just record the number associated with your HQL.

 

[thomfantomas]

Is this a joke?

 

[Cal68]

When I got my HQL in 2013, they sent me a physical laminated card. But when it expires later this year and I renew it, I expect to get the same E-mail and electronic HQL that the OP got. I am not sure exactly which year they stopped issuing a physical HQL card and went electronic, but it has been electronic for some time. I hope this helps the OP.

Cal68

 

[Blacksmith101]

The original HQL was a plastic card with your picture, then they stopped putting the picture on it, then they stopped issuing the card. However, the cost has remained the same!

 

[coinboy]

Funny thing is, if you read the email it says that if your HQL is ever relinquished, you are required to return it to MSP.

How you gonna do that? Print it out and mail the email to them?

 

[Blaster229]

Is this a joke?

Sounds like a legit question. Oh, 2:07 a.m., I see it now.

 

[rseymorejr]

When I got mine in 2015 it was a nice laminated card with my picture on it. When it expires next year I expect to not have to woory about the unconstitutional BS. The HQL should just be a memory by then.

 

[swinokur]

When the MVA updated their systems, MSP lost the ability to pull your DL photo. Without that. a plastic card with no photo was useless. They stopped issuing plastic cards soon after .

And thus endeth the story .

 

[dannyp]

can't afford it , there's a deficit you know !!!!

 

[Alutacon]

Funny thing is, if you read the email it says that if your HQL is ever relinquished, you are required to return it to MSP.

How you gonna do that? Print it out and mail the email to them?

Just hit reply on the email, lol

 

[Threeband]

When the MVA updated their systems, MSP lost the ability to pull your DL photo. Without that. a plastic card with no photo was useless. They stopped issuing plastic cards soon after .

And thus endeth the story .

I still have my first driver's license. It's a paper card with no photo.

 

[Kharn]

The hilarious part is the 77R site remembers all your demographic info, but not your HQL number.

 

[rseymorejr]

I still have my first driver's license. It's a paper card with no photo.

My learner's permit is like that. By the time I got my license they were all fancy, picture and lamination.

 

[trickg]

I got my HQL in October of 2014 - laminated card with my DL photo on it. Then I rejoined the National Guard in 2015, negating the need for an HQL. Then I retired from the National Guard in 2023, negating a need for any of that BS ever again.