Kalamazoo County
I hadn't seen any current info on the wait in Kalamazoo county, so I thought I'd share this.
Here's all the steps and how long it took me to get my CPL in Kalamazoo County.
I took my CPL class on Saturday October 20, 2012.
The Kalamazoo County Gun Board meets on the second Tuesday of each month (November 13th in this case), so I didn't waste any time with the next steps.
Monday October 22 I filed the application with the Kalamazoo County Clerk and paid the $105 (plus $10 for the photo as the one I brought had a shadow in it they didn't like).
Next step was fingerprinting at the Kalamazoo Township Police Dept. I had heard that it was hard to get an appointment for this so I enlisted the help of a friend who is a retired KTP officer. One call and they said "come right down now"...that was Wednesday October 24. The woman who printed me said my permit would arrive in "4 to 6 weeks". As a side note, my wife is getting her CPL and two weeks after I got fingerprinted she made an appointment and it was only a 2-day wait (without a call from my buddy).
Tuesday November 13 - The Gun Board met.
Wednesday November 28 - I was getting impatient as it had been 15 days since the Gun Board met, and after all, with "shall issue" there was nothing to do but print and mail my license. I called the Kalamazoo County Clerk's office to check on the status and the lady said "those went out in today's mail".
Thursday November 29 Opened my mailbox, and there it was! Very nice plastic driver's license-type card.
So, from filing the application until I had my CPL was 37 days, or just over 5 weeks. Not too bad considering Thanksgiving fell in the waiting period.
Hope this helps anyone going through the process. The key is timing everything with the Gun Board meeting schedule. My wife filed everything just a week or so after me but her Gun Board meeting won't be until December 11 and with Christmas she may not get hers until ater Christmas or even early January.