51% lookup now available online @ TABC website!

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51% lookup now available online @ TABC website!

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A big thank you to Carolyn Beck, Director of Communications and Governmental Relations, at the TABC office in Austin. She was incredibly responsive, and sincerely interested in making changes to their website to better serve our community. It was a great experience working with her over the past month or so.

So... if you'd like to figure out (before heading out for the evening) if your destination is 51% posted or not, you no longer have to call and query the staff at the establishment in question. Go to:

http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And click the link, 'Public Inquiry'

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In the resulting webpage, click the first link, 'Verify the status and other information...'

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Now fill in as much of the next form as you think is needed. I was impressed that as little as the 'trade name', street name (not the entire street address, even) and city were required to get the record I was looking for.

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And finally, the results! I highlighted in yellow the new field they've added to this page. RED means it's a 51% business, 'BLUE' means you're good to carry.

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Thank you :tiphat:
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This is GREAT! This link should be in a sticky somewhere on the site. . .
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This is great. Thanks to Robert for pushing it. Russell from Texas3006.com could use it to help determine the status of a number of 51% signs that are currently reported as "maybes" regarding validity.
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ScottDLS wrote:Russell from Texas3006.com could use it to help determine the status of a number of 51% signs that are currently reported as "maybes" regarding validity.
Ah, good point - and the new Android TexasCHL app could link to the lookup page as well.
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That's awesome! Thanks so much for taking the initiative to get this done. And credit to TABC for listening too.
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:hurry: :hurry: :hurry: :thewave

Awesome!! Thanks for chasing this kudos to both you and the TABC folks!!
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I would prefer if it said Sign instead of Gun Sign but that's a great improvement to have the information online, and I applaud Carolyn Beck for excellent customer service and salute RHenriksen for getting the ball rolling.
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Thanks to those involved to make this happen. That is great.
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Outstanding!

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Would it be appropriate to post Ms. Beck email address? If so, please do so that those of that want to can thanks her personally.

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Hm... I don't know, exactly, but hopefully since she's a public employee this isn't confidential information!

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Thank you sent.
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This is great! A huge thanks to the TABC and everyone who worked with them to get this feature put in!
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