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surprise_i'm_armed wrote:My understanding regarding airports is that you can carry there, but
not inside the security perimeter through which travelers must pass.

Yes, that was my understanding, too. However, we were informed that if you have a LEO encounter anywhere on airport property, you can pretty much expect to have your CHL rights violated (and possibly other rights too). I'd be REALLY CAREFUL at the airport.

OK...here's the list of "Never Carry Sites" and "You Can Decide Sites" as written on the blackboard of my CHL class. In case it matters, this was before the '09 changes were published.

Never Carry:
Bars - 51% and consumed
Federal - post office, etc.
Schools - events, transportation, bldgs.
Jails
Courts
Airports
Racetracks - Horse and dog
Professional Sporting Events
Anywhere while intoxicated
1000' Near an execution
Anywhere a 30.06 is posted

You Can Decide:
Churches/Temples
Hospitals
Nursing Homes
Amusement Parks
Government Entity Meetings
Lower Colorado River Authority
State Parks and Monuments
Local Public Transportation
Most Federal Parks
Privately Owned Banks

Thank you. Actually, my instructor gave us a list of "gray areas". I should post them here and find out if he was right (I'm guessing he wasn't).

When I took my CHL class early this year, my instructor told us that churches, synagogues, and places of religious worship were "gray areas" where we needed to use our judgement. Even though the handbook we were using (from August 2008) listed these places as non-carry, we were instructed to put astericks by PC 46.035 subsections 4, 5, and 6 because the laws were being changed (supposedly).

But I have now looked in the 2009 release of the handbook, and PC 46.035 subsection 6 reads the same as it did before, regarding churches.

So is there something I'm missing? Is it legal to carry concealed with a CHL to church?