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barres wrote:Welcome to the forum, Cofmatt. Are you the person I pointed over here from the Sig Forum?

txinvestigator wrote:

Cofmatt wrote:

txinvestigator wrote:

Cofmatt wrote:

txinvestigator wrote:

Cofmatt wrote:I am a 22 year old male, I work full-time and am going back to school full time in January.. When I was 19 years old I was arrested for Class C Misdemeanor assault and ended up on deferred adjudication for it. I do not want to go into any details about this arrest because I feel that it was wrong and that I should not have been taken to jail. I am just worried that if I spend my money applying for the permit that this will prevent me from getting it and I would much rather spend that money on ammo. I am a responsible gun owner so please do not judge me, I just need advice on how I should get my CHL.

Unless you were charged with family violence then you are fine.

I was just worried because section 42 talks about assault and the DPS website says that deferred adjudication is still a conviction?

Section 42 of what? If you are referring to the penal code, assault is not in Chapter 42.

If you were convicted of disorderly conduct within the last 5 years, including deferred, then you are ineligible. However, you wrote that you took deferred on Class C assault, not disorderly conduct.

Can you clarify?

I recall reading that under that section it talks about assault too. Originally I was charged with obscene display or some other disorderly conduct charge but it was dropped(The police were trying to get me on anything they could and wrote me up for using profane language)

Nope, Different animals. so you were originally charged with Disorderly Conduct, profane language, and the charges were dropped? How did you end up with an assault? Did the court actually modify the charge rather than drop it?

Regardless, if your actual conviction is Assault, class c, deferred, you are good to go for the CHL.

wo5m wrote:

Cofmatt wrote:I am a 22 year old male, I work full-time and am going back to school full time in January.. When I was 19 years old I was arrested for Class C Misdemeanor assault and ended up on deferred adjudication for it. I do not want to go into any details about this arrest because I feel that it was wrong and that I should not have been taken to jail. I am just worried that if I spend my money applying for the permit that this will prevent me from getting it and I would much rather spend that money on ammo. I am a responsible gun owner so please do not judge me, I just need advice on how I should get my CHL.

If it’s truly a class C (same as traffic ticket) then you should be fine. However, ifs it’s a class B or C you have to wait until your 24 assuming the court date (not the arrest) occurred when you 19.

Question for others:
I don’t know the Texas penal code very well, but isn’t unusual to go to jail for a Class C? Isn’t disorder conduct a Class B?

txinvestigator wrote:

Cofmatt wrote:

txinvestigator wrote:

Cofmatt wrote:I am a 22 year old male, I work full-time and am going back to school full time in January.. When I was 19 years old I was arrested for Class C Misdemeanor assault and ended up on deferred adjudication for it. I do not want to go into any details about this arrest because I feel that it was wrong and that I should not have been taken to jail. I am just worried that if I spend my money applying for the permit that this will prevent me from getting it and I would much rather spend that money on ammo. I am a responsible gun owner so please do not judge me, I just need advice on how I should get my CHL.

Unless you were charged with family violence then you are fine.

I was just worried because section 42 talks about assault and the DPS website says that deferred adjudication is still a conviction?

Section 42 of what? If you are referring to the penal code, assault is not in Chapter 42.

If you were convicted of disorderly conduct within the last 5 years, including deferred, then you are ineligible. However, you wrote that you took deferred on Class C assault, not disorderly conduct.

Can you clarify?

txinvestigator wrote:

Cofmatt wrote:I am a 22 year old male, I work full-time and am going back to school full time in January.. When I was 19 years old I was arrested for Class C Misdemeanor assault and ended up on deferred adjudication for it. I do not want to go into any details about this arrest because I feel that it was wrong and that I should not have been taken to jail. I am just worried that if I spend my money applying for the permit that this will prevent me from getting it and I would much rather spend that money on ammo. I am a responsible gun owner so please do not judge me, I just need advice on how I should get my CHL.

Unless you were charged with family violence then you are fine.