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This is truly a birthday worth celebrating. And I'll add my big "THANK YOU" to Charles for making it possible. The wealth of information and the insight of many different forum members makes coming here and reading every day worth the time investment.

I suspect that other families are like mine with the impact of the forum going far beyond just the person like me who does the reading and posting. My wife now reads it for herself and her ideas about CC have changed markedly. I often share information that I see with our extended family and with a wide circle of friends. I think it is important to get accurate information about guns and the 2nd Amendment into our society and the practice of expecting links to source material here means that the information is available to be shared.

An additional side benefit for me was seeing how a forum should be run. The combination of the consistent contributors and the moderators seem to keep the discussions lively but civil. Some of the RV forums where I used to spend my time were not that way at all and I very much appreciate the change.

It is a shame that only 12K out of the 600K Texas CHLs have found the value here. Of course, there is no telling how many "lurkers" there are who are not registered.