B of A won't accept TX CHL as ID

[3dfxMM]

I believe that the requirement is a picture ID issued by the state.

Does BofA have their requirements posted somewhere on their website? I couldn't find them, but I also didn't look very hard.

[smokindragon]

Wells Fargo bank accepted mine as a second form of I.D. when I wrote out a check for cash.

[jamullinstx]

Not that I've been able to find. And I will add, that based upon the tone of the response of the clerk, they have been presented with CHLs before, and have just decided not to accept them. I don't think their list specifies "state issued ID". I think it is a specific list with allowable IDs. The primary is the DL, of course, and then lists all sorts of secondary ones, most of which do not have a picture, so I don't see how they are considered ID, at all.

I believe that the requirement is a picture ID issued by the state.

Does BofA have their requirements posted somewhere on their website? I couldn't find them, but I also didn't look very hard.

[Stupid]

Neither CHL or DL should not be used as an ID other than proving that you can legally carry a gun or can legally drive a car. Using them for any other purpose is just wrong.

Accepting CHL and DL as a form of ID at election poll is beyond being wrong. Only US passport should be accepted without exception. Just like I said before, the only gun show loophole is that nobody checks your citizenship and hence smart Mexican illegals/legals could just buy up anything they could once they check "US Citizen" box on the Form 4473.

The only proper IDs is either a passport or a green card. If you don't have neither, get a Texas resident card.

[ELB]

Neither CHL or DL should not be used as an ID other than proving that you can legally carry a gun or can legally drive a car. Using them for any other purpose is just wrong.

Accepting CHL and DL as a form of ID at election poll is beyond being wrong. Only US passport should be accepted without exception. Just like I said before, the only gun show loophole is that nobody checks your citizenship and hence smart Mexican illegals/legals could just buy up anything they could once they check "US Citizen" box on the Form 4473.

The only proper IDs is either a passport or a green card. If you don't have neither, get a Texas resident card.

I'm sorry, but this doesn't make much sense, and it forces people to shell out $$ for a document most do not use often, if at all -- and applied across the board, it becomes a National ID, which raises hackles on a lot of people.

To get a passport you still have to establish identity -- the same as at the polls, through what is called "primary identification," and guess what the Fed Gubbmint considers acceptable: a driver's license. Or a current city/state/federal government ID. Or a Naturalization Certificate. Or a previous passport (which of course you got by using one of the previous IDs). The only real documentation difference between getting a Tx DL and a passport is the passport requires a birth certificate, which is what I think you are really getting at...

If your concern is about actually proving the citizenship of a voter, that needs to be addressed at the time of voter registration, and I would be OK with that. Right now you just basically assert you are a US citizen by checking the box on the application form. I would go for having to cough up a birth certificate to do so, but not for forcing people to get a passport to either register or vote.

As far as a general ID, you mention the "Texas resident card" -- of which there is no such animal, but I assume you really mean the Texas Identification Certificate. Well guess what? The documentation requirements for getting a Texas DL and a Texas Id Certificated are exactly the same. It is produced by the same people as the DL, and carries the same ID information. So why disallow the Tx DL but allow the Tx Id certificate?

The more I think about it, the more I would I would place far more faith in a Tx CHL than a Driver's License to verify the identity of someone. The CHL ID process gets far more scrutiny than a DL, what with fingerprints, national checks, local background checks etc. The documents to get a DL just get a look at the local DPS office, and that's it, one time as long as you renew your DL on time.

[Liberty]

To get a passport you still have to establish identity -- the same as at the polls, through what is called "primary identification," and guess what the Fed Gubbmint considers acceptable: a driver's license. Or a current city/state/federal government ID. Or a Naturalization Certificate. Or a previous passport (which of course you got by using one of the previous IDs). The only real documentation difference between getting a Tx DL and a passport is the passport requires a birth certificate, which is what I think you are really getting at...

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I didn't have any ID to get my passport, I may have had my birthcertificate, I don't remember. I just had a couple friends swear they had known me for a few years. I didn't have a drivers license, and they wouldn't accept my Pistol Permit(Mass.) I've renewed a few times since but it was through the mail and I just used my old pass port as ID.

[Vic303]

I've had CHL accepted in the past by BOA as valid second form of ID. I have also regularly used my FCC radio licence (non-photo) in various places too with out much issue. I think the acceptance varies a lot from branch to branch...

[stevie_d_64]

OFF-TOPIC but very interesting...

It has just come to light that "BoA" and Merril Lynch have now had the light turned on to their receiving from the government bailout (stimulus funds) and those organizations paying out bonuses 22 times higher than anything the AIG executives doled out recently...

Now, however you feel about contracted bonus distribution in private corporations...It does kind of make you wonder why the government (liberals/socialists) are moving very quickly to get themselves into bed with private industry with our tax dollars??? And ironically holding those same companies feet to the fire by sicking their ACORN minions and other government enforcement agencies to intimidate and chastise them for distributing "contracted" bonuses to their employees...

I really hope that with all the government intrusion, and over extending they are doing is kept in check this November in the local elections, and in 2010, in the state and mid-term election cycle...And in 2012...We all know what to do then...

I know I keep harping on this, yet it is the only realistic way to get us back on track, and back to doing what we enjoy doing...The pursuit of life, liberty and tighter groups!

[pfgrone]

Going thru the Federal security check at an airport in Rhode Island, the officer asked for my plane ticket and an id. My wife and I were busy talking about something and I accidently gave the officer my CHL instead of my drivers license. He pointed out to me what I had done and said it was fine since it was a valid state issued identification.
I got flusterd at my mistake and assured him I was not carring at that time. He just smiled and said, "We already know you're not armed. Have a nice flight."

[ELB]

I didn't have any ID to get my passport, I may have had my birthcertificate, I don't remember. I just had a couple friends swear they had known me for a few years. I didn't have a drivers license, and they wouldn't accept my Pistol Permit(Mass.) I've renewed a few times since but it was through the mail and I just used my old pass port as ID.

You almost certainly had your birth certificate. Otherwise you came up with other documentation showing you were born in the US or of US parents. (My mom didn't have a official birth certificate -- she was born in a farmhouse, and her birth was recorded on some other form. It was a problem for her sometimes.).

And you did have an ID -- you had your two friends (which also illustrates my point that a US Passport is maybe not as solid as some think). My point was that the Feds accept DLs as identification of who a person is -- and probably prefer them.

[wheelgun1958]

DFW airport board doesn't accept it either!