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JP171 wrote:seniors I can see, most of them live on fixed income, however police officers judges lawyers and the baliff(LEO) should NOT most HPD officers make as much if not more than I do all attorneys make more and baliffs are LEO's too so yep they make more, so no they get no break on the cost. my only benefit to my CHL is that I don't pay for it, just for the class just like my Hunting/Fishing License the state gives it to me free. I do agree that its an expensive thing to get a CHL and should be less expensive but unlike a drivers license there isn't a way to subsidise the CHL thru traffic tickets

Heck, what benefit does a LEO even get from a CHL? They can carry more places than the rest of us

I know one worthwhile legislative goal that's been bandied about is reducing the onerous $140 application fee (one of the highest in the country). A discussion elsewhere here about donating funds to help teachers get their CHLs made me think:

we discount the state CHL fee for military and the indigent. If we don't get a universal fee reduction accomplished in 2013, why not at least try for a reduced CHL fee to our K-12 teachers? Regardless of whether we can get some type of campus carry passed, it would still chip away at the resistance to defending our schools, and teachers/administrators/staff at K-12 schools who do get their CHLs would swell the ranks of people predisposed to lobby for ending gun free zones.