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Just walked out to the mailbox



Postmarked 10/12/2011, mailed from 78752
Plastic in hand, one very happy phat Eskimo!!

I've never checked the mail so many times in such a short period of time, didnt realize that I wanted this little piece of plastic so much.

Congrats to all who got their plastic recently- it's so funny how happy getting that little card can make you. And how impatient you can get waiting on it

Background Check : Completed
Concealed Handgun License : Manufacturing Pending

First update: Background Check :Under review

Checking into the waiting room, or rather I've been here a while and finally see the light at the end of the tunnel:

long short story:
1995- moved to Texas from the West Coast, really surprised about all the politicking on CHL, I figured that if we had it on the left coast, why didn't Texas already have it? My dad Carried legally in Oregon, and Washington reciprocated when he came up to visit me. We all knew how stupid California was, that is why we all left. I was amused and didn't consider pursuing CHL in Texas at the time, I was about a year too young to apply at the time and I was moving back to Seattle in about 2 years, figured that I'd survive till I got 'home'. Then I married a Texan and made my temporary move to Texas more permanent.

Took a while to convince wife that me having a firearm was OK, and needed. Stranger knocking on our door at 2am the week we brought first baby home from the hospital took care of that immediately. Took a few more years for the wife to be comfortable with me wanting to have the gun with me at all times.

shorter story:
2009 took class, never sent in the huge packet to the state.
10/7/2010 Won a CHL Class Certificate at fundraiser dinner/auction for an inner city ministry my wife and I really like and support. (had a mini bidding war with a buddy who was looking to get his CHL too. 'why not, this is for charity' we said)
3/22/11 Applied Online
4/1/11 Fingerprints Submitted
(tried for a long time to schedule the class but never received a response...made decision to pursue the class from someone else, kinda wish I hadn't 'won' the certificate)
9/25/11 CHL Class (with buddy who bid against me, guess he really won. I think he owes me lunch or something now )
9/26/11 Paperwork Mailed off