CleverNickname wrote:In addition to permitless carry for anyone over 21, West Virginia's new law also allows 18-20 year-olds to get a provisional carry license. I wish we'd do the same and have separate licenses for 18-20 year-olds here in Texas. There's a number of states which don't recognize any Texas LTC's because of the fact that Texas will issue licenses to military and veterans under 21. We can't control other state's carry laws, but we could could split the LTC into a >21 LTC and a "provisional" <21 LTC, which would give those other states the ability to recognize one type of license (or both). Continue to treat both types the same in every other way, under Texas law. From what I can tell, we'd gain WA, NV and MN by doing this.
The legislature should work on increasing the acceptance of our LTC in other states, particularly ones that are close to accepting ours or don't allow for a non-resident permit to be applied for online or via mail.