Reply #138: The only sense in which Texas' CCW law is more "lax" than NY's [View All]

[slackmaster]

Is that you don't have to convince some bureaucrat that you have a "legitimate need" in order to qualify for a permit. The licensing procedure is a lot more stringent.

Texas requires a 10-15 hour training course for an initial application and a 4-hour refresher course for a renewal.

New York has no training requirement.

Texas requires two recent color passport photos, two sets of fingerprints taken by a law enforcement agency employee, a copy of your Texas driver license or identification card, and notification of completion form (TR 100) from a DPS-authorized handgun course.

Documentation requirements vary from county to county in New York, but statewide there is no photo requirement and it looks like they take only one set of fingerprints.

See http://www.packing.org/states.jsp for more information.

BTW I notice MrBenchley still hasn't presented any evidence to support his claim that smokeless gun powders used in Europe contain taggants like those used in commercial high explosives.

I wonder why that is...