txinvestigator
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OK, but you used the term in your diatribe over lousy CHL instructors and students who seemed not to know the law. That, my friend is akin to the pot calling the kettle black.To give you an idea of the preponderance of the misconception of felony=federal, I polled my lab of graduate and PhD level engineers and all concurred that if you committed a felony, you had broken a federal crime.
I never said it was not pertinent. You insisted that it was part of the Texas laws, and instructors were "supopsed" to teach it. That is just not true. You then maligned instructors who did not teach it the way you "thought" is should be taught. The fact is federal laws are not covered in the CHL curriculum nor are instructors required or encouraged to teach it.Would it not now seem obvious that touching on some of the federal aspects of carrying concealed are very pertinent in the CHL class?
That is quite understandable. Now you see that it is easy to forget or even blur what you were taught, and has nothing to do with "instructors who suck". Unless you are saying now that you think about it, your instructor sucked.My instructor covered some of these topics and I either didn't understand or have blurred the technically specific details that we are now debating.
From the post on this forum in September of this year that seemed to settle most of the debate, 39CFR232.1 is where post office carry is most nearly define. It would seem to be a fitful criticism of CHL instructors that fail to speak about this most - seemingly - confusing of topics. Mine settled it by telling us not to carry past the metal detectors into the counter area, that seems pretty fair to me.
Again, Instructors are not taught federal laws nor how they apply to CHLers. It is not a course topic. Unless the CHL instructor has specific training regarding those federal laws he might or might not be giving the proper information. As you have pointed out, it is a debated topic on most gun forums.
And I have never been to a post office with metal detectors. Don't know where you have seen that, either. Fair is not necessarily the law or proper.
The bottom line is you spoke out of school and attacked a bunch of people (instructors) without knowing the facts. More than that, you were just flat wrong.