Just Rrnewed my Texas CCC license. What a change over past renewals!! I got a letter from Texas DPS saying that I could renew over the internet. Texas has a long list of licenses that can be renewed on line, CCW is one of them (the only other one I remember from the list is Court Reporter). They will use my previously submitted picture and fingerprints, if they are usable (they were in this case). There's apparently been a change in the law so that if you've renewed twice before (I've renewed thrice), you only have to take the refresher course and range session every 10 years. They take your credit card over the internet for the fee: $35 for me, a senior; $75 for your young sprouts. The process was a lot simpler than a lot of thigs I've tried over the internet. Got my new license in three weeks; it will be good until I'm 84. Congratulations to Texas Department of Public Safety; somebody up there has been thinking this thing through.

In some states they would be doing all they can to make it HARDER to keep guns rather than easier.

I renewed mine last year. Good for 4 years, 50 bucks. Had to get photographed & finger printed again. No range time needed.

It seems that, little by little, more and more states are relaxing CCW renewal requirements, such as "refresher" training, "requalifications", resubmittals of fingerprint cards, and so forth, assumably in recognition of the overwhelming evidence that CCW holders are not troublemakers, conflict instigators, habitual criminals, etc., and if they haven't done something that would have been grounds for revoking their permits, there's no point in hassling them about renewing them. Better yet, here in one of the holdout "free states", "we don't need no stinkin' permits" to exercise our 2A rights.

Same experience for me. $35 plus an additional $2 on-line filing fee. Had the new license in less than a month.