How hard is it to get a CHL?

Different states have different laws and requirements for CHL license. Call your local police department and ask what are the requirements for the license.

If your state requires classes then in most cases the class will cover what your states laws are on the use of deadly force. They also sometimes go over the parts of different guns and cleaning them along with possibly some accuracy shooting

TEXAS CONCEALED HANDGUN LAWS GC §411.172. 3***

ELIGIBILITY

(a) A person is eligible for a license to carry a concealed handgun

if the person:

(1) is a legal resident of this state for the six-month period

preceding the date of application under this subchapter or is otherwise

eligible for a license under Section 411.173(a);

(2) is at least 21 years of age;

(3) has not been convicted of a felony;

(4) is not charged with the commission of a Class A or Class B

misdemeanor or an offense under Section 42.01, Penal Code, or of a

felony under an information or indictment;

(5) is not a fugitive from justice for a felony or a Class A or Class

B misdemeanor;

(6) is not a chemically dependent person;

(7) is not incapable of exercising sound judgment with respect to

the proper use and storage of a handgun;

(8) has not, in the five years preceding the date of application, been

convicted of a Class A or Class B misdemeanor or an offense under

Section 42.01, Penal Code;

(9) is fully qualified under applicable federal and state law to

purchase a handgun;

(10) has not been finally determined to be delinquent in making a

child support payment administered or collected by the attorney

general;

(11) has not been finally determined to be delinquent in the

payment of a tax or other money collected by the comptroller, the tax

collector of a political subdivision of the state, or any agency or subdivision

of the state;

(12) has not been finally determined to be in default on a loan

made under Chapter 57, Education Code;

(13) is not currently restricted under a court protective order or

subject to a restraining order affecting the spousal relationship, other

than a restraining order solely affecting property interests;

(14) has not, in the 10 years preceding the date of application,

been adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct violating a

penal law of the grade of felony; and

(15) has not made any material misrepresentation, or failed to

disclose any material fact, in an application submitted pursuant to

Section 411.174 or in a request for application submitted pursuant to

Section 411.175.

(b) For the purposes of this section, an offense under the laws of

this state, another state, or the United States is:

(1) a felony if the offense, at the time of a person's application for

a license to carry a concealed handgun:

(A) is designated by a law of this state as a felony;

(B) contains all the elements of an offense designated by a law

of this state as a felony; or

(C) is punishable by confinement for one year or more in a

penitentiary ; and

(2) a Class A misdemeanor if the offense is not a felony and

confinement in a jail other than a state jail felony facility is affixed as a

possible punishment.

(c) An individual who has been convicted two times within

the10-year period preceding the date on which the person applies for

a license of an offense of the grade of Class B misdemeanor or greater

that involves the use of alcohol or a controlled substance as a statutory

element of the offense is a chemically dependent person for

purposes of this section and is not qualified to receive a license under

this subchapter. This subsection does not preclude the disqualification

of an individual for being a chemically dependent person if other

evidence exists to show that the person is a chemically dependent

person.

(d) For purposes of Subsection (a)(7), a person is incapable of

exercising sound judgment with respect to the proper use and storage

of a handgun if the person:

(1) has been diagnosed by a licensed physician as suffering from

a psychiatric disorder or condition that causes or is likely to cause

substantial impairment in judgment, mood, perception, impulse

control, or intellectual ability;

(2) suffers from a psychiatric disorder or condition described by

Subdivision (1) that:

(A) is in remission but is reasonably likely to redevelop at a

future time; or

(B) requires continuous medical treatment to avoid redevelopment;

(3) has been diagnosed by a licensed physician or declared by a

court to be incompetent to manage the person's own affairs; or

(4) has entered in a criminal proceeding a plea of not guilty by

reason of insanity.

(e) The following constitutes evidence that a person has a psychiatric

disorder or condition described by Subsection (d)(1):

(1) involuntary psychiatric hospitalization in the preceding

five-year period;

(2) psychiatric hospitalization in the preceding two-year period;

(3) inpatient or residential substance abuse treatment in the

preceding five-year period;

(4) diagnosis in the preceding five-year period by a licensed

physician that the person is dependent on alcohol, a controlled

substance, or a similar substance; or

(5) diagnosis at any time by a licensed physician that the person

suffers or has suffered from a psychiatric disorder or condition

consisting of or relating to:

(A) schizophrenia or delusi