Texas should not honor Virginia’s online gun permits

[SecularMotion]

In Texas, if you want to get a license to carry a concealed handgun, you can.

If you take a 10-hour course with a qualified instructor that includes an hour of range time. If you absorb state laws on when and where you may carry. If you learn about the safe handling of a weapon, especially around children. If you score a 70 on a 50-question written test and a 70 on a 50-shot test from three distances.

Do all this, pass a federal background check, and in the eyes of Texas, you may carry legally in our state. This newspaper generally supports concealed carry, and one reason is that Texas law makes sure an applicant understands the rights and responsibilities that come with it.

What no Texan should want is to have someone around who is armed but has no clear concept of Texas law or how to handle a gun. And that’s what could happen more often if Texans sign up for nonresident permits from Virginia, which allows permitting entirely online.

http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20120921-editorial-texas-should-not-honor-virginias-online-gun-permits.ece

[ileus]

1. Crap...I didn't get to do it online.

[Eleanors38]

2. Think, OP: Vermont...(your eyes are getting heavy) Ver-moonntt...(your getting sleepy)...nt

[Clames]

3. So much ignorance...

...and so little battery life left on my laptop so I'll do my best for now.

This not only increases gun danger for everyone, it cuts the legs from under Texas law.

Bullshit and bullshit. Anybody who actually reads the laws (obvious the author of the article and the OP didn't) knows that they are beholden to the laws of whatever state they are carrying in regardless of where their permit came from.

Considering Texas honors permits from nearly 30 other states and some where it is just as easy to get a non-resident permit it would be hypocritical for Texas just to single out Virginia. Much pearl clutching over nothing it seems.

[Remmah2]

4. I don't trust online Virgins either.

[PavePusher]

5. Who the hell wants a virgin?

They never know what they're doing...

[GreenStormCloud]

6. Please show where this has actually caused any problems in Texas.

Last edited Wed Sep 26, 2012, 12:59 PM - Edit history (1)

What you posted was an anti-gun opinion piece. It contained no statistics to prove that a problem existed. It only proved that an online, out-of-state, VA permit is easy to get.

[safeinOhio]

17. Is it easy enough for a Texan who fails

that states CCW class or test can get one of those online?

[GreenStormCloud]

18. I don't know. I don't trust Dallas Morning News on guns.

They were against the CHL program before it became law. Their editorial position is consistently for greater gun control, never for relaxing any gun laws.

[oneshooter]

7. So this means that you agree with the Texas program for issuing CHL's?

[oneshooter]

14. By your lack of an answer I will concider that a "yes".

Thank you for that vote of confidence.

[rDigital]

8. PA doesn't require any training at all. $20 and you too can carry in Pennsylvania. nt

[trouble.smith]

10. The problem with that is that PA and OH can not have reciprocity because of PA's minimal standards

Of course I can still get an out of state permit for PA and travel about in your state with a CCW but the same courtesy isn't extended to PA residents by the Ohio AG. I was going to go to Philadelphia for Vacation this summer but chose not too because I won't vacation in a state that doesn't let me carry. I may get the out of state permit but I doubt it. I'll probably just go somewhere else again, that's easier.

[trouble.smith]

9. The 10-12 hour class with range time is what I consider "reasonable firearms legislation"

It's the same way here in Ohio. I have no problem with this restriction and I carry every day.

[virginia mountainman]

11. I travel to Ohio for work..

Ohio also honors my Virginia permit...... As does PA.....

[rl6214]

12. Glad to hear you approve of my Texas Concealed Handgun permit.

[X_Digger]

13. Texas shouldn't honor Virginia driver's licenses or marriage licenses, either!

*snort*

[S_B_Jackson]

15. Since Virginia honors my Texas CHL, it just seems unneighborly

to no recognize and honor theirs. Texas' laws concerning legal concealed carry are fairly straight-forward, and are readily available at the TX Dept of Public Safety website, as well as at www.handgunlaw.us. Compliance isn't difficult.

[ileus]

16. Virginia prides itself in being progressive...

This just goes to show how progressive we are.