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NCIC is administered and run by the alphabet soup on the East Coast. TCIC (Tx DPS) is specifically where this stuff is logged, and at the local level in whatever county you were in. This is often shared with the alphabet soups, but only if you are deemed to be dangerous and a known criminal. Evey traffic stop is logged, regardless.. Date, time, place, and any and every detail about that stop. LEOs are required to log the info in their MDT before they even get out of the vehicle, or at least notify dispatch of the same. The vehicle plate information is cross referenced against the DL database and the officer has that info before he/she approaches the driver. Any known drug history, better yet, anything for that matter where the name has a hit in the database from any time period. Listen to the DPS radio chatter..

Wise up people, a database is being built and the excuse is safety.

Probable cause is a justification for anything now it seems. We have 4-legged judges on leashes that are used to justify warrantless searches. As someone who works in IT and knows relatives that work in law enforcement IT, I speak from experience that anytime a request is run for any number, DL, insurance, weapon serial number, it is logged permanently into a database. That database is then used when any future contact is made with the individual, and can easily be mined by authorities in the future. Well, not can be, but will be. Once the serial number is ran, it is logged forever in the database. You are now forever connected with that weapon.

As far as the LEO knowing if you are a CHL holder or not during a traffic stop, the dispatcher informs the LEO of the plate owner of the vehicle has a CHL. 9 times out of 10 it is the same person as the driver. So they know before even exiting their vehicle.

Easy solution is to put a plastic sticker of similar color on the gun covering the serial number. I have not found anything in TX statutes that prohibits covering the serial number. No more plain sight.