So the clerk takes the current and valid CPL and sends the citizen on their way. Citizen is now left without a CPL and likely carrying a firearm. I assume the citizen would need to transport the firearm using the rules a non-cpl holder would have to follow. Except in most of our situations we carry on us and probably don't have a case to place the firearm in.
So now, due to the error of the city, the citizen is carrying a firearm illegally and should they be stopped would most likely spend the next year fighting the case in court which will not only cost them time but money as well.
Am I missing something? No way am I leaving without my current and valid CPL in this situation.