Texas Handgun License Takes Big Jump in Applications
Austin, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- The first notable spike in the number of CHL applicants followed 911. Terrorism such as that could never happen here “our world” but it has and it may again.
Whether the recent giant jump in LTC applicants is due to recent acts of terrorism, press-hype during the 2015 session, or due to personal protection awareness, it’s causing chaos within DPS-Regulatory.
Today’s DPS Regulatory Division cranks out our handgun license, plus the protection industry’s professional licenses, drivers’ licenses, and even oversees the safety inspection of Texas vehicles.
The current 139% increase in LTC applications has DPS scrambling to work extra shifts and bringing in temps. If your license needs to be renewed please don’t wait until the last minute. If you’re an instructor please see your applicants have all the understanding they need to complete the process and get their license. A partial package slows down the log-jammed process.
Applicants have complained that they “gave their instructor money”; not understanding they had only paid for the class, still needed to get fingerprints, needed to pay the state for the license itself plus complete the DPS process on line.
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If you have a problem and something is seriously wrong, I’m glad to help.
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Keep the Faith,
Alice Tripp
Texas State Rifle Association
Legislative Director
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Good schools provide a check list of state requirements, capture fingerprints, have students complete all the paperwork and even address and seal the envelopes during class. As a cautionary note, elderly applicants risk rejection of their fingerprints and a good school will know when prints are unacceptable. I’ve been printed several times in the military and a number of other times for various brokers’ licenses. Computer services now are used to print applicants in large volume industries such as real estate. Because I’m pretty old, when the real estate commission added a fingerprint requirement, I had to be reprinted four… Read more »
DNA is NOT the way to go. This is the most intrusive of all Govt programs. Please, let’s not have anyone bring up the red herring of “well, if you haven’t done anything wrong….” etc. If you haven’t done anything wrong why not let the Govt search your house anytime they so desire? If you want to step up the ID process (and the cost) just do an iris scan of everyone. Personally, we should be abolishing permits altogether. The theory that we need permission from the State in order to exercise an inherent right has long passed.
The purpose and effects of DNA and iris scans are the same. The purpose of identification is to prevent illegal aliens, criminals, youths, mental defectives, et al., from being licensed. If the iris scan is less intrusive and equally as effective as DNA, that would make it the obvious choice. And my last sentence, “…teaching the gun grabbers to read…” was intended to remove licensing as an intrusive nuisance. That still leaves us with the need to prevent illegal aliens, criminals, youths, mental defectives, et al., from legally obtaining firearms. Positive identification wouldn’t prevent illegal acquisition and the major effect… Read more »
Vann, I think that you are right about the theory that we need permission from the State to carry is long passed. And here in Texas the whole license to carry program is costing a fortune; taking too long; and everyone carries anyway. So why not save a whole lot of effort and taxpayer dollars; drop the pretense that about licensing and go to Constitutional carry.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s just become clearer to me that leftist forces in this nation have absolutely no interest in nuts and felons. They’re interested in the lawful working citizens they need to be dependent on them. Felons and the entitlement class already are dependent on them but they desperately need to “control” the normal, everyday, middle class workers who actually earn money. By the way, that’s us. And that’s the money they use to create the dependency that keeps them in power. Proof came spilling out in 2013 during heated debate over a bipartisan bill proposed by Senators… Read more »