Lost CCW "id" vs. TN driver's license: temp. basis.

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Changing clothes somewhere allowed me to misplace the plastic baggy with the ID.

The chances of needing to produce the CCW "ID" are so small that as a back-up, it can probably be verified by an LEO checking a database for the TN driver's license.

Wouldn't the tracing of the license normally work as a temporary back-up?

UpDate**** finally found the license, and see no reason to be concerned if it ever happens again.
 
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Glad you found it, but even though your idea sounds feasible, I would hesitate to tempt fate on it.
 
...The chances of needing to produce the CCW "ID" are so small that as a back-up, it can probably be verified by an LEO checking a database for the TN driver's license.

Wouldn't the tracing of the license normally work as a temporary back-up?......

I don't think I'd want to count on it.

  • Depending on exactly how the law is written/applied by the courts, merely not having the permit with you when armed might be the violation.

  • And it could depend on the LEO. Cops usually have some discretion to let a minor matter slide. But if you have the bad luck to draw an officer who it antagonistic to private citizens being armed or is otherwise not a flexible or forgiving sort, things might not work out too well.
 
Some states will allow a phone picture of your license in lieu of the real thing.

Arkansas:

(e) Acceptable electronic format for an electronic copy of the concealed
handgun carry license constitutes an electronic image produced on the
person’s own cellular phone or other such portable electronic device that
displays all the information on a concealed handgun license as clearly as an
original concealed handgun license.

It would be trivially easy to fake a picture, but since whether you have a CHCL comes back when they run your ID anyway, I guess they figure it doesn't matter... at which point, why bother to carry the card or picture of it at all? But we're talking law, not reasonableness...

If Tennessee permit it, a picture on your phone could be a fall-back for a lost or misplaced license.
 
Part of the Tennessee statute 39-17-1351 reads as follows.

(n) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (n)(2), a permit issued pursuant to this section shall be good for eight (8) years and shall entitle the permit holder to carry any handgun or handguns that the permit holder legally owns or possesses. The permit holder shall have the permit in the holder's immediate possession at all times when carrying a handgun and shall display the permit on demand of a law enforcement office

I read this as if you have a handgun on you that you must have your permit on you as well. Glad you found your permit.
 
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