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If your leave and earning statement (LES) continues to show your Texas home address - then you should have no problem as long as your other identification remains in concurrence with the original Texas address. It is temporary duty (TDY) station until a permanent change of duty station is issued (PCS). But if you change your driver license or vehicle registration to KY, that effectively is a change of address out of state as far as Texas is concerned and the TXCHL will not be valid (IMHO). If you are getting PCS - then your LES will change and you are out of luck. You have to be a resident of KY six months before applying for their concealed carry permit. Of course, a move within TX still requires a 30 day window to change your address so there really is no extended window to carry a TX CHL and produce a KY DL.

In KY, a citizen can have a loaded weapon in the glovebox (narrowly defined) without having a concealed permit/license.

KRS 527.020 - "A deadly weapon shall not be deemed concealed on or about the person if it is located in a glove compartment, regularly installed in a motor vehicle by its manufacturer regardless of whether said compartment is locked, unlocked, or does not have a locking mechanism."

Similar to the Federal statute - the KY definition of "glovebox" does not include a center console whether lockable or not.

A bunch of my bug-eating kinfolk still live in western KY. I really like to visit up there - but am real glad IH 30 points back to Texas.