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Doug.38PR

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Three or four years ago when I bought my first handgun, long before I got my CHL, I ask a dealer some questions about CHL. He told me all about how you can't carry in courthouses, schools, airports. How you can't carry while drinking. How you can't have any past criminal record.....and then he told me that when you see a wreck on the road then you are required to stop and aid otherwise it is a crime.

I told him that you are legally required to stop anyway, to say nothing of being morally obligated. He replied "yes but if you have a CHL, it's an even worse offense because the idea is that if a police officer is not around to aid and control the situation, you are supposed to step in. It's kinda like you are the next level below a police officer." :confused: :rolleyes:

A year or two later when I called to schedule a class with my CHL instructor I repeated what this guy told me over the phone (he happened to work in the same store as the CHL instructor) and the CHL instructor, of course, told me that that was absolutely UNTRUE that I don't come anywhere near the level of a police officer.

Never forget that. What is the most absurd thing anyone has ever told you about CHL?
 
Someone once told me that when I qualify, I am only qualified to CCW with the weapon I tested on, and that information (make model serial#) was logged at the state level with my permit.

Found out that was bull-puckey. At least in AZ.
 
In Texas if you qualify with a revolver, you can not carry a semi- auto pistol. If you qualify with a semi-auto you can carry either. Some in my class couldn afford a semi-auto, so the instructor agreed to let me furnish the other students with a semi-auto pistol just for the class.:D Everybody qualified
 
In Texas if you qualify with a revolver, you can not carry a semi- auto pistol. If you qualify with a semi-auto you can carry either.
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As stiff as a DA snubby revolver's trigger is, I wish it were the other way around. Otherwise you can get a glock26 shooter confidently packing a sp101 but when he pulls the trigger puts his rounds 3 feet to the left because he hasn't qualified with such a beefy trigger.

DA to SA isn't a big deal, but SA to DA is huge and can drastically effect aim, IMO.
 
Someone (who didn't know I was an NRA Personal Protection instructor - and knew better) once told me that he didn't want to get his CHL because then he'd have to give the fed.gov the serial numbers of all his guns and allow the ATF to do a spot-search of his home at any time.
 
Some times living In Indiana sucks

But this is one time its great!!
Fill out the paperwork,,, wait 2 weeks for a local officials and they only check your records in the county. Then to the state and 2 weeks you can carry.
That’s IT!
Must be one reason the Brady bunch gave Indiana a -D for gun control.
But I really think we can do better and we will get that -F next year.
Brady bunch bite my ,,,,,:D
 
"you cant carry glocks in ohio because you can just pull it out and pull the trigger and its the most powerfull handgun you can get.......other guns you have to pull them out and do something to be able to fire"
yes this is exactly what they said. as you can tell they dident know anything about firearms or the law you can guss what kind of person this was (gangbanger wanabe)
 
I got my first gun at a place called Anthony Arms in Pompano Beach. All the guys who ran the courses were off-duty cops.

All 4 I was involved with lectured endlessly about the permit and what it meant. They all carried this book (forget the title) that's sold in most gun shops that's all about Florida gun law. They referred to it.

When they were specific, they were always dead accurate. But most of the time we were given a notion of a situation we might be in and told that the answer to what we could and could not do was in the four-page handout containing Florida firearms law. We were advised to read it at least four times.

A lot of the advice they gave was geared toward avoiding having to use the gun.
 
Kinda off topic, but in TN you are only required to call 911 even if you are a doc/ems, but once you stop you legally have a duty to act.
 
In Tx, about the coming up on a wreck scenario: Only the DRIVERS of INVOLVED VEHICLES are required to stop. If you're not the above, you can legally drive around the wreck, and keep going. I'm not saying, of course, that is what you SHOULD do.
 
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