[granuale]

Yes, this requirement is a violation of the Uniform Firearms Act. The Act provides that the form for application is the one issued by the state police, and the fees allowed for processing the application. Unfortunately many many counties and Philadelphia break the law every day with additional paperwork, illegal wait times, etc. You can find many examples by searching on this site.

What we need to do and haven't done yet, is make sure that these jurisdictions are sued in court every time they violate the law and refuse to comply with the UFA. This of course takes resources - namely time and money that people (including myself) haven't put forward. Hopefully one day we'll have a Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Legal Defense Fund that will sue all these bastards into compliance. Greg Rotz of this forum has done great work with legal defense funds for number of Pennsylvanians whose firearm rights have been officially oppressed, but so far, not in this area. Anyway, sorry to get off on a rant. Yes what they're doing is illegal. You can go along, or refuse and sue if you get denied, or they fail to process.

I was thisclose to suing Delco, but they actually came through and processed my application within the statutory maximum number of days. If you decided to sue, PM me and I may be able to help out with some thoughts as me and another PAFOAer who is also a lawyer did some preliminary research.