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Bullwhip wrote:

dicion wrote:

Bullwhip wrote:

Pawpaw wrote:Federal law allows an exemption if the school zone is in the same state that issued your CHL. Your Utah license won't qualify for a school zone in Texas.

It says "if the individual possessing the firearm is licensed to do so by the State in which the school zone is located". It don't say "issued by". If a Utah license doesn't make you licensed to carry in Texas, then you're UCW to start with. But it does count, that's why it's legal to carry with a Utah or Florida license. Texas says you're licensed to carry in Texas if you have a Utah license, so the GFSZA doesn't matter.

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Read the above underlined portion a few times. The key word is 'by'

You have to be licensed by the state in which the school zone is in.

With a Texas CHL, you are licensed by the state of Texas.
With a Utah CFP, you are licensed by the stare of Utah.

Reciprocity doesn't mean you're licensed by the state of Texas. You are still Licensed by Utah, Texas just recognizes that license.

I think it does. License means permission, not a piece of plastic.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Hoi Polloi wrote:Because the Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act requires the state to background check and license you in order to allow you within 1,000 feet of any public, private, or parochial school. Try going through life without coming within a school zone.

Good point. I wonder how Arizona, Alaska, and Vermont manage that little item.