The presumption of travelling if you meet the aforementioned 5 criteria was only passed in 2005. The three county rule or overnight trip was the rule of thumb before that, but there was apparently no legal definition. That was changed by the recent law. Basically, if you can legally possess the weapon and are in a private vehicle you are presumed to be travelling.Skipper5 wrote:tx....our CHL instructor...DallasPD - could be Dept. policy or just his feeling- defines "traveling" (he said really quite subjective) as " usually going through three counties" e.g. Dallas > Tyler, etc. Some counties in TX are as large as three smaller ones .....so kinda the equilivent distance.
Under his 'Range" intrepretation...if you were going to carry to the range...and are not a CHL....then have the gun in a range bag or secured in the trunk, loaded or not. If stopped, just inform the officer immediately of the weapon's location and your intentions of enroute to the range.
So if you took the CHL course before the law was changed (2005), your instructor may have been giving you what was the generally accepted rule at that time. In my understanding it no longer applies.