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Starvin wrote:I will be contacting my state rep to introduce legislation that would require that one must teach the TX class before the Utah class or hold a valid TX CHL before taking the Utah class.

Please reconsider this plan, unless your state rep. already votes "anti-gun" anyway. Otherwise, it will have cause him/her significant problems.

This issue is better handled in the market place, on gun boards, and on an instructor-to-instructor basis. I have posted my concerns about the "Utah problem" several times I am considering asking Texas-based Utah CFP Instructors to meet in person and/or by teleconference to discuss the growing concern in Austin and among Texas CHL Instructors and how we can address this issue on a professional basis without government intervention. We should try to police ourselves before asking the Texas Legislature to do so.

Chas.

chuckybrown wrote:Charles, if you do teach the class, add my name to the list. I have my Texas CHL, and want the Utah CFP for reciprocity reasons.

CB

Please send me an email. That's how I'm keeping up with people who are interested.

Chas.

Okay folks, here is my issue with Utah licenses. I'm a Utah instructor but I haven't done any classes in a good while. The issue of Texas residents getting a Utah CFP instead of a Texas CHL has caused quite an uproar in Austin and it's going to get worse. There are at least two Utah instructors who are aggressively marketing the Utah CFP as a cheaper and easier way to carry a gun in Texas. This advertising is precisely what has a number of folks in Austin upset.

I've only taught a few Utah classes and to my knowledge every one of my students had a Texas CHL and wanted the Utah CFP to get reciprocity with other states. I have had quite a few requests to do another Utah CFP class and I have not scheduled one for the above-listed reasons. However, if there is enough interest, I will schedule a class in Friendswood, but only for people who have a Texas CHL. I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but I'm not about to have my name mentioned in the Capitol as one of the people causing the "Utah problem."

I'll post a separate thread to gauge interest.

Thanks,
Chas.