Why did you have to take a class to get a Florida License? Was it show competency with a firearm?tomtexan wrote:And to any and all that are going to take any class to get a Florida license just to bypass the Texas requirements. I did the very same thing. The advertisement looked so appealing. No shoot, 4 hours only class. I have known about Texas CHL being available since it became reality in 1995. I was not actually eligible until 2000. I kept putting it off for the next 12 years. And finally I saw the ad in the paper for the Florida license. I thought, hey, why not? It's just too easy. So, I went and took the class and a month later I had the Florida license. After I got it, I got to thinking that this just doesn't feel right. What if I get pulled over by the law and display a Texas driver license and a Florida handgun license? That might raise some eyebrows. Long story short, I took the Texas class the very next month and got the Texas license a short time later.
So the lesson learned here was, if you get the Florida license so you can bypass the long and strict Texas requirements, you won't feel good about it in the long run. At least that is the way it worked for me.
I have had a Florida License for a while now and all I had to do was fill out the application and send them a copy of my DD214.
The Florida license is legal in Texas.