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oldshooter wrote:Particularly if you bought with a credit/debit card or a check, the DL number is used to help identify you for credit check purposes. The LTC ID card is technically sufficient both to legally identify you and to waive the BGC requirement, but it can't be used to check your credit or verify your check.

Why not? The only unique info I can find on the DL is: the class of driver, Issue date, expiration date, driving restrictions, donor status and the DPS audit number. I can't imagine that any of those things are used to verify my credit. Even my picture and signature are the same.

An LTC has both a license number and the associated Texas ID or DL number on it. The reason to present both is because no one would forge the LTC with a bad LTC number (this is good enough to forgo the NICS call), but they might forge the part with the DL# on it (this part is much more suspect). By having the customer present both, the store is able to catch those folks that are cutting open their LTC to alter the DL# in their LTC. It happens more often than one might think. LTCers conviction rates notwithstanding. It is always better safe than sorry.

Would it cost someone a sale to me? Doubtful. Would it make me think twice about looking for other vendors? Without question. This isn't a "they shouldn't do that to me" issue. For me this is a "are they engaging their brain/problem solvers" issue. If the vendor can't decide if the DL# on my LTC is valid, I darn sure don't want you breaking open the guts of one of my firearms.

Does the form ask if the FFL visually saw the actual DL/ID, or just that they verified and recorded the correct DL#? If it is the latter, the law has been met by information on the LTC. If not, what other portions of the LTC are equally as invalid?