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So we are not only fellow Brits, but we are both named Jason! Plus i'm also an Engineer (Electronics Hardware), and I have two boys!! The oldest is 4 and the young one is 18months. My home town is stoke on trent in Staffordshire.

I had an interest in guns about 20 years ago. A friend of my dad shot sporting clays and asked if we wanted to join him and it turned into a great father/son hobby every sunday. We did that for quite a few years until I finally moved into my own place. Once I moved to America, I did shoot some pistols at the range, but never really got back into it. I guess it wasn't the same experience as shooting clays with my dad.

Now I am married and have my one kids, i'd like to share the same experience with them as they grow up. It may be a few years before they are shooting shotguns, but I might try a .22 rifle in a year or two.

I took my CHL class because I saw a Groupon deal. Since I had the kids, I have been wanting to do it for their safety and protection, but kept putting it off. The groupon deal helped me make the decision to finally get it done. It was only after I had my CHL that I discovered that my town police department holds FREE quarterly CHL classes for residents!!

I only have one gun right now, and that is my carry pistol, a Springfield XDm .45ACP 3.8' compact. Hopefully a shotgun or AR will be my next purchase! Hard to convince the wife to let me do it though. She is not that enthusiastic of my new interest.

One thing you didn't mention in your timeline is when you had your fingerprints taken. I did mine early on in the process and I think that might be the real reason that the DPS process went quickly.

Where abouts do you live in Texas? What do you like about it?

I too am a naturalised foreigner and my license took 28 days mailbox to mailbox. Maybe us foreigners get special treatment!!

By looking at my username, you would easily guess that I am from Britain. I have lived here for 12 years, but only the last 3 in Texas. So, I don't think you living in Denton County all this time could have sped things up much.

Where do you originate from and what brought you to Texas?

Congrats on the CHL!

Would you care to explain your username? Are you an IT person?