Here’s an interesting press release from the San Diego County Sheriff Department. The Sheriff, William Gore, is up for re-election in a few months. The release is decidedly ambiguous as to the Ninth Circuit’s recent decision, but having worked in bureaucracies, that’s to be expected. No one wants to be seen as making a decision, or telegraphing future policy until there has been time to consider all the possibilities . . .
The chairwoman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors says she’s just fine with the Ninth Circuit decision. From the LA Times:
Dianne Jacob, chairwoman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, said her initial reaction was positive.”I have no problem with law-abiding citizens carrying concealed weapons in the name of self-defense,” Jacob said.
It’s clear that Sheriff Gore is anticipating a large run-up in CCW applications, a positive development. With Sheriff Gore facing the voters again soon, he needs to hear from his constituents.
According to the Sheriff’s CCW license applications page,
We will continue with existing procedures and all CCW applications will be handled by appointment only.
That won’t make it easy to process a flood of applications . And there doesn’t seem to be anywhere to register comments about the process on the San Diego County Sheriff Department’s facebook page.
I found this email for Sheriff Gore:
I sent an email and have not received an error message, so it may be a good one. I called the Sheriff’s office and obtained the phone number of the public affairs office:
(858) 974-2184
I called but no one picked up, and while I waited for several rings, I did not get an answering machine. They will not be open until Tuesday, 18 February.
Here’s the email that I sent to Sheriff Gore:
Sheriff Gore,
Thank you for your service. I would like to offer a campaign contribution, but I wish to be sure of your commitment to upholding the second amendment of the Constitution.
The issue seems quite simple. The best way for you to show your support of the second amendment is to not appeal the recent Ninth Circuit ruling in Peruta v County of San Diego.
I look forward to seeing that no appeal has been made, and the ruling is allowed to stand.
While I’m sure that Sheriff Gore is studying the implications of the ruling, it doesn’t hurt to remind him of the strong level of support that exists for the Constitution and the Second Amendment in California.
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This is the perfect gun for wilderness carry in Canada. It meets the legal minimum barrel length and the lighter weight and compact size are easier to carry. Long guns are simply not practical for most forestry jobs such as tree planting, logging,surveying etc. where your hands are full of tools or equipment. A lot of times a loud bang is all that is needed to scare bears away but .44 mag is considered the minimum in Grizzly country.
If there was ever a letter meant to discourage applying for a CCW this is it.
I care in as much as I generally carry a very low opinion of my fellow man so when one of their television gods shares an opinion I suffer images of zombie herds falling in line to not just down some celeb endorsed gutter water or fill their homes with reality star designed garbage or adopt the political position they were told to and repeating it to their dullard friends, family and coworkers.
Some solace comes from knowing most wont bother to ever make it to the polls.
So yea I care. Or at least I react with a sigh and a cringe.
They will influence the same people who listen to them for the choice of a political candidate: low information voters. People who can’t be bothered to watch an actual news report to find out what is going on with the world and who get all their news from E! or TMZ.
The only upside to this is that they are also not willing (most of the time) to stand up for their “beliefs” and call, write or visit their representatives.
Of course, they still get to vote…..
A celebrity’s opinion is about as two dimensional, petty, and insignificant as many of the people who post comments on this site. A celebrity’s stance on guns holds about as much weight with me as some of the ignorant hateful babble of some of the posters here, not a f’ing bit.
yes i care what they say about gun rights. not because i think what they say is all that important, but because they are influential. a person who doesn’t care one way or another about guns would probably lean to the anti gun side of an argument if their idol was anti gun.
also if a celebrity speaks anti gun, then when it comes time for a tax write-off, their wallets will spend anti gun money.
Isn’t Sean Penn a big gun guy? If I was a friend of Charlie Sheen, I know I’d want to be armed.
damn that’s only 100 a month I’d call that way low. 100 a week should be the minimum, I think.
No wonder they are such bad shoots.
Does the 70 k ” employees” include the Coast Guard (who do NOT belong in DHS, btw)?
It pains me to say this, but our department shoots and trains with about 1,200 rounds / year per officer. I shoot more on my own, ’cause I like guns.
Additionally:
http://www.examiner.com/article/courant-demands-on-gun-enforcement-present-dilemma-for-state
““But the bottom line is that the state must try to enforce the law,” The Courant concluded, calling on the state to use the “background check database” to identify who has not obeyed, and to go and get them.”
Dangerous precedent there…..
The original Mac10 was 45ACP, not 9mm.
I’m in the Air Force and I am aircrew, so I carry an M9 on a fairly regular basis. We get to shoot 90 rounds of 9mm (frangible) at the range every other year to keep current. I got an email a while back saying due to lack of funding and ammo, they were going to let people go non-current unless they were deploying soon.
I haven’t touched an M4/M16 since basic training 10 years ago.
Now I see why, all the ammo is going to all the other federal departments.
finally an awesome weapon i can afford to feed more than once a month.
Anyone who thinks the DESPP can go off of transfer records and start arresting people is displaying a simple ignorance of the law.
Prior to 4/4/13, CT only tracked secondary transfers of handguns. So if you bought a long gun at a dealer, then sold it to bob, and bob sold it to stan, and stan sold it to Sue, the state has no idea where it is. All they know is that you bought it originally.
if you are ever questioned about who you sold it to and you SHUT THE F$#K UP about it. Then everybody wins. Remember, you don’t have to talk to the police.
Because they only track sales to and from licensees, the state has bad data. And they know it. It is not actionable data they could use for an arrest. They could certainly start asking questions based on transfer data, but if the first buyer refuses to cooperate, the cops are dead in the water.
Even now, despite the fact that all in-state transfers must be recorded with the state, there are still holes in the system. If you sell a firearm out of state, the DESPP will not know you sold it, it will remain “registered” to you after the sale. This doesn’t create anywhere near the inaccuracy there used to be befoe 4/4/13, but it helps.
Well, once von Daniken was discredited, he was replaced by Al Gore and global warming. . .
So was it really a lamp? Or is this just an elaborate cover story for the notorious international arms smuggler Francois Croissant AKA Nick Leghorn?
Very Clever François! Disguising a gun, as a lamp, in a gun case. You have foiled us yet again!
Gun grabbers oppose the bill because they never make mistakes….well, ceptin trusting armed criminals with their lives.