I appreciate the counsel but at the moment, my strategy is active patience. My birthday is looming and my lay read of the law says that the permit will expire on my birthday following the two-years-from-issue date. So if I have this right, I get my an extra year on my permit if it's issued just after my birthday rather than just before. It will have been a close to a two year process to get this permit so the extra year to plan the renewal could be worthwhile since it's only good for two years.Get an Attorney, plenty of capable ones on the forum. IANAL but I have read numerous posts where a writ of mandamus (sp?) can be filed to get the government to stop stalling. Really is ridiculous when there is a process and the board has made its decision that the government again thinks that they can play games.
As far as I know the AAG is not part of the process officially at all the Governor has the absolute authority to order his state police superintendent to honor the boards decision and issue your permit. Sadly, Hogan has refused to step up in this manner in any instance.
And I agree with your assessment ... I can find nothing in the law that says that the AAG has a role here.