The DPS issues ID's to LTC holders. If it has not expired then it's still valid. I'm just wondering if a private sale would be the same as the gun show, that is, if the buyer is a LTC holder then you do not have to bother with background check.

Not exactly true. DPS is slow to collect ID from folks that are no longer permitted to have an LTC. That's why they created a means & methods for FFL licensees to check validity.

For your reading pleasure...

https://www.dps.texas.gov/news/dps-...ms-licensees-verify-validity-ltc-permits

I'm confused, say a person buys a gun from an individual, no paperwork, and ten years later or two weeks later they sale the gun to another individual, how would ATF searching sales records discover anything other than maybe the original purchaser and then the trail would go cold? This is another one of those nonsense regulations which will only apply to law abiding citizens and FFL Holders will make a ton of money, I'm thinking the price of transfers just went way up.

This really doesn't surprise me after watching people who ran to purchase AR15s on a weekly or daily basis, then turned around and sold them for an inflated price taking advantage of the big ban scare...

Appears Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Utah have just filed a lawsuit to stop this policy change...

Yep. Here’s the press conference….