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windplex wrote:Chas, Thank you for clarifying. So outside the home it is all grey.

This is a great example why I like doing live seminars. We can discuss the Penal Code, case law, then we can discuss the real world.

Oh well, only so many hours in a day . . . :?

Regards,
Chas.

PS: Windplex, I'm not being critical at all. There are just some topics I'd rather not cover on the Internet for all the world to see.

windplex wrote:Did Texas pass the law/amendmentment, like Florida's, that one is not legally required to run first before shooting in self defense? Brian

No, Texas has not passed a Florida-style Castle Doctrine. I expect it will be a hot topic during the 2007 Texas Legislative Session. Texas is a "modified duty to retreat" state. There is no duty to retreat in your home. Outside your home, you have to retreat before using deadly force if a reasonable person would have do so under the circumstances and you can retreat safely, i.e. without increasing the danger to you. I'm at a loss to imagine how I could flee from someone without exposing my back to incoming fire or a knife, but I guess such circumstances may occur from time to time.

Chas.

You can get a Texas CHL as a non-resident, regardless of your home state. No longer do you have to live in a State that doesn't issue CHL's. That was an asinine requirement that has been removed from the Texas CHL statute during the 2005 Texas Legislative Session.

There are several CHL instructors on the forum, so I'm sure you'll get the information you need.

Welcome to TexasCHLforum,
Chas.


P.S.: The Texas Legislature Online Codes and Statutes database has not been updated to show all of the revisions from the 2005 Legislative Session, so here is the exact language from HB225 that passed and became effective on 9/1/05:

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 411.173(a), Government Code, as amended by Chapters 255 and 752, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, is reenacted and amended to read as follows: (a) The department by rule shall establish a procedure for a person who meets the eligibility requirements of this subchapter other than the residency requirement established by Section 411.172(a)(1) to obtain a license under this subchapter if the person is a legal resident of another state or if the person relocates to this state with the intent to establish residency in this state. The procedure must include payment of a fee in an amount sufficient to recover the average cost to the department of obtaining a criminal history record check and investigation on a nonresident applicant. A license issued in accordance with the procedure established under this subsection: (1) remains in effect until the license expires under Section 411.183; and (2) may be renewed under Section 411.185

[I'm moving this to another Section.]