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Box wrote:CHL/LTC seems more of a licensing than anything else, getting instruction and knowing how to shoot may be considered weapons training.


6 or half a dozen. Both lead to the same conclusion for me (not a lawyer and should not be considered lawful advice.)

Box wrote:

Killadocg23 wrote:

Box wrote:Yes sir, I have the temporary green card. Applying right now for my permeant gc

I have a question when you applied for Adjustment of status for the question that asks did you receive any weapons training did you put yes and explain you had a CHL? You can PM me if you would like. Very interested in your answer.

I answered yes. I included CHL and also my time in the Singapore army. Both would easily turn up with little digging, I answered truthfully as both were not worth hiding or withholding.

Box wrote:Yes sir, I have the temporary green card. Applying right now for my permeant gc

Box wrote:No issues with mine. I try to keep my hunting license valid, but I think it is not a requirement. ( Hunting license only required ?for buying firearms from an FFL/ ?getting your CHL/LTC.) I'm no longer an alien, thus not kept up to date with the info.

Regarding a handgun in a cars. From Wikipedia:

Motorists Protection Act

Gov. Perry also signed H.B. 1815 after passage by the 2007 Legislature, a bill that allows any Texas resident to carry a handgun in the resident's motor vehicle without a CHL or other permit.[20] The bill revised Chapter 46, Section 2 of the Penal Code to state that it is in fact not "Unlawful Carry of a Weapon", as defined by the statute, for a person to carry a handgun while in a motor vehicle they own or control, or to carry while heading directly from the person's home to that car. However, lawful carry while in a vehicle requires these four critical qualifiers: (1) the weapon must not be in plain sight (in Texas law, "plain sight" and "concealed" are mutually exclusive opposing terms);[21] (2) the carrier cannot be involved in criminal activities, other than Class C traffic misdemeanors; (3) the carrier cannot be prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a firearm; and (4) the carrier cannot be a member of a criminal gang.[22][23]

Previous legislation (H.B. 823) enacted in the 2005 session of the Legislature had modified TPC 46.15 ("Non-Applicability") to include the "traveller assumption"; a law enforcement officer who encounters a firearm in a vehicle was required to presume that the driver of that vehicle was "travelling" under a pre-existing provision of 46.15, and thus the Unlawful Carry statute did not apply, absent evidence that the person was engaged in criminal activity, a member of a gang, or prohibited from possessing a firearm. However, attorneys and law enforcement officials in several municipalities including DA Chuck Rosenthal of Houston stated that they would continue to prosecute individuals found transporting firearms in their vehicles despite this presumption,[24] leading to the more forceful statement of non-applicability in the 2007 H.B. 1815.