CHL renewal question

[Seburiel]

Venus Pax asked a really good question in the Poll: Why have you not gotten your CHL yet?

I'm curious about renewals:
Since DPS handles this, why can't a person just show up at a local DPS office with renewal class paperwork, take a picture, pay $10 (like the driver's license renewal), and leave?
Why is getting a renewal such a production? It doesn't seem that they would need to run a criminal history check again. Wouldn't they know about it if a CHL holder committed a felony after receiving the first license?
Just curious on this.

It's a good question, but I'm not sure it'll get the attention that it deserves in the poll forum, so, I've reposted it here, because, frankly, I'm curious about it, too.
(ATTN Mods, if this was inappropriate, please delete this, Venus, I hope I haven't stepped on your toes reposting this)

[txinvestigator]

100 replies and 11k views is not enough attention?

[seamusTX]

The renew process is set by law -- GC §411.185.

The law is what it is because that is what the legislature passed and the governor signed in 1995. It took years of negotiation.

It probaby does make sense to repeat the background check, if it is going to be required at all. It is possible for someone to be indicted or convicted in, say, Hawaii after they got a Texas CHL.

I think it may also be required by whatever federal law lets you buy weapons without a NICS when you have a CHL.

- Jim

[Seburiel]

100 replies and 11k views is not enough attention?

perhaps I didn't make it clear - I wasn't posting the subject of the poll, but a question that Venus had *in* the poll's message forum. It didn't seem that her question had as many responses as you would indicate.


http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... 1&start=90

[kw5kw]

Venus Pax asked a really good question in the Poll: Why have you not gotten your CHL yet?

I'm curious about renewals:
Since DPS handles this, why can't a person just show up at a local DPS office with renewal class paperwork, take a picture, pay $10 (like the driver's license renewal), and leave?
Why is getting a renewal such a production? It doesn't seem that they would need to run a criminal history check again. Wouldn't they know about it if a CHL holder committed a felony after receiving the first license?
Just curious on this.

It's a good question, but I'm not sure it'll get the attention that it deserves in the poll forum, so, I've reposted it here, because, frankly, I'm curious about it, too.
(ATTN Mods, if this was inappropriate, please delete this, Venus, I hope I haven't stepped on your toes reposting this)

It seems to me that it's not a complete background check on the renewals, but, a check just to make sure that nothing has changed in the previous 4 (or 5) years and that you're still the person that you were then.

A Computerized Criminal History check, for example, would not show if you've paid your taxes, if you'd defaulted on a student loan, or been to a mental hospital. All of which would be disqualifiers for the renewal.

The check isn't as through as the original, it just covers the previous 4 (or 5) years since your last renewal.

[carlson1]

http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... 1&start=90