My grandfather had at least two pistols on him on any trip out of town. I'm guessing that's the license he had considering he was 82nd (later 101st) Airborne and then head of an AP (Air Force MP) outfit.
You don't need a CHL to have a firearm with you while traveling in Texas.
Wikipedia explains it well: "Gov. Perry also signed H.B. 1815 after passage by the 2007 Legislature, a bill that allows any Texas resident to carry a concealed handgun in the resident's motor vehicle without a CHL or other permit.
The bill revised Chapter 46, Section 2 of the Penal Code to state that it is in fact not "Unlawful Carry of a Weapon", as defined by the statute, for a person to carry a handgun while in a motor vehicle they own or control, or to carry while heading directly from the person's home to that car.
However, lawful carry while in a vehicle requires these three critical qualifiers:
(1) the weapon must not be in plain sight (in Texas law, "plain sight" and "concealed" are mutually exclusive opposing terms);
(2) the carrier cannot be involved in criminal activities, other than Class C traffic misdemeanors; and
(3) the carrier cannot be a member of a criminal gang."
Please don't use cryptic acronyms. Not everybody's from Texas.