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anygunanywhere wrote:

03Lightningrocks wrote:One post from this guy talking like he lives a life of petty crime, temper control issues and even total disrespect for laws and law enforcement. Then poof... disappears like the wind and we keep the thread going as if these troll threads are to be taken seriously.

Think it will make three pages?

AGAW

Gold3n wrote:Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum and was hoping to get some information to clear a few things up. First of all I don't have a CHL. I never bothered trying to get one because it's highly unlikely that I would qualify. I've gotten myself into quite a bit of trouble in the past and there's not much I can do now to change that. The worst thing probably holding me back from getting a CHL is an Aggravated Assault with a Deadly weapon charge I received when I was 16. I was charged as a juvenile and agreed to 1 year probation with a lesser charge of assault. When I turned 18, I received a class C misdemeanor theft charge and then a misdemeanor evading arrest charge in my mid teens. I'm 34 now and haven't been in any legal trouble for about 7 years or so. I was wondering if it will ever be possible for me to qualify or most likely not due to the assault charge?

Anyways, if I can't get a CHL then I will need to know how to legally carry a firearm in Texas without a CHL. Would a CHL class help with understanding the laws to carry without a CHL since I probably won't be able to get the license? I realized most of my life I might have carried illegally in certain situations because I don't have a license to do so. I've been carrying guns on my person and in my vehicles since I was 18. This weapons law actually concerns me a lot because I can't afford to get into any more legal troubles or worse. I usually don't carry my gun into stores or onto peoples property without there consent but there has been a few times that I wasn't sure if I was breaking the law or not.

For example having a loaded gun on my person in a holster while outside of my vehicle pumping gas. I never bring it into the store and if I need to go into the store I un-holster my weapon and put it under the driver seat or glove compartment. Sometimes I get lazy and just lay a towel over it sitting on my passenger seat. Usually when I'm driving it's in my holster or stuffed between the crevice of the driver seat and center console for fast access. Of course if I get pulled over by police the gun goes into the glove compartment with the quickness before I even stop. Always concealed when it needs to be. Then again sometimes when I'm driving my truck I have rifles and sometimes a shotgun laying visible in my backseat. I'm about 99% sure that's legal though because if not I would have been arrested by now. Actually remembering the time I got pulled over and had an AK47 and a 30_06 rifle laying in my backseat. Officer said, "Jesus Christ boy! what the heck are you doing?" lol

Well anyways that is my routine for carrying inside my vehicle and clearing my weapon from sight if pulled over by police for any reason. I definitely don't want to make any law enforcement concerned for his or her well being or worse get shot because they notice I have a firearm. So it always goes into the glove box in that situation. Which is sometimes tricky because I drive a manual sports car now.

Other than that I have consent to carry my weapon to my business location inside and around. This I also researched and believe is legal?

So basically I'm not confident that I'm following the law 100% when I carry daily. Any advise that could help please let me know. I'm actually considering spending the money for the CHL class even though I won't apply to get the license.