The Future of CHL

[srothstein]

Whom do you show it to day to day?

Not day to day, but the biggest threat in having the CHL coded on the DL is your boss. A DL is proper ID with a SSA card for your new hire paperwork to prove you can work in this state. My current employer required everyone to show their DL anyway as part of the new hire processing. If we encoded the CHL on the DL, I would almost guarantee that HR departments would be able to understand it rather quickly.

[TLynnHughes]

Whom do you show it to day to day?

Not day to day, but the biggest threat in having the CHL coded on the DL is your boss. A DL is proper ID with a SSA card for your new hire paperwork to prove you can work in this state. My current employer required everyone to show their DL anyway as part of the new hire processing. If we encoded the CHL on the DL, I would almost guarantee that HR departments would be able to understand it rather quickly.

Exactly! And most HR departments take a photocopy of your DL for your personnel file.

If you get a speeding ticket and opt to do the Defensive Driving course, you have to submit a copy of your driver's license to them. I had to take a copy of my license for the loan paperwork to buy my house (every house, actually). Every time a copy is made, more people know I might be carrying. I'm in the process of getting a port security card, which, while not specifically requiring a dl, that is surely the most accepted form of id.

T.

[sjfcontrol]

All good points regarding whom you show your ID to. I might add that (not that it's affected me in some time) but for the younger among us, they have to show ID to buy beer, liquor & cigarettes.

[03Lightningrocks]

I think the posters speaking of the issues with the DL are correct. My company also requires a DL on file for hiring. If you were a CHL holder you would get extra points from me...LOL...but I don't know that it would work that way for many employers.

[Bart]

Definitely get rid of the requirement to carry the card. Off duty cops are exempt even if they're not carrying their peace officer license, so we should also be exempt even if we're not carrying our license. We might get arrested until they sort things out (just like an undercover cop, especially feds) but it shouldn't be a criminal offense.

[RiverCity.45]

If I were Texas' Gun God, I would require stricter range qualification. Everybody in my class "cheated" on the range. I'll bet everybody everywhere "cheats." How? Because we all used the largest most accurate least recoil most reliable semi-autos we could get our respective hands around. Knowing that in the worst case of carrying in the summer wearing nothing but a Speedo everyone will opt for a mousegun, I would require qualification with a mousegun. I can pass the test with one, as I regularly shoot mine at 25 yards. I believe that if you aren't proficient with what you may be drawing worst case, you got no binness carrying.

Heh. I don't own a mousegun, don't carry anything smaller than a .45. I qualified with what I carry.

[MadMonkey]

I qualified with a Springfield XD in .40... first time I had ever shot one

A week before that, I practiced with a USP in .40.

Prior to that, I hadn't shot in about 3 years My brother and I both shot 249 on the qualification though, not horrible but not great