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llwatson wrote:

txinvestigator wrote: Our initial classes are filling up faster than ever. We limit to 20 students, and classes are ful well over a week in advance. My 3 night initial class is also filling up each month.

TX - I have noticed this too and wondered if it was happening everywhere. I do 2 new classes a month and, since January, I have been booked up to a month in advance with a waiting list.

I really thought the "traveling law", as reported, would cause a decrease in new students, but I haven't found that many new students are even aware of it!

What do you think is the cause for the sudden increase in applicants? And, FWIW, I think this is also the cause for more fingerprints coming back from Austin and more applicants being delayed in getting their licenses.

I think it is 3-fold, the evacuees (refugees are people who flee a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution, per Merriam-Webster) and 2) the unusually warm weather this winter.

I think 3) is people concered with the potential for terrorism here in the US.

The traveling presumption only applies to private motor vehicle carry.

It does not seem to me that many people are even aware of the presumption. I am the training director at a gun range, and we see 40+ CHL students a week.

Regarding the percentage of renewals; Our initial classes are filling up faster than ever. We limit to 20 students, and classes are ful well over a week in advance. My 3 night initial class is also filling up each month.

The renewal classes are not quite full each week. However, that does not account for people who take the renewal elsewhere, or people who took the initial elsewhere and renew with us.

My general observation is that many people are getting new CHL's, and a high percentage are renewing.