Californians - CCW Hearing Jan 12

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Right-to-Carry Bill Scheduled to be Heard Next Week!
Please Contact the Members of the Assembly Public Safety Committee Today!
Assembly Bill 357 is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Committee on Public Safety on Tuesday, January 12.

AB357, sponsored by Assembly Member Steve Knight (R-36), would create a “shall issue” concealed handgun permit system in California. Under current law, an applicant must show cause as to why they should be issued a permit to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense. AB357 would remove that stipulation and require sheriffs to issue the license if all other mandated criteria are satisfied.

Please contact the members of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety TODAY and respectfully urge them to support AB357. Contact information can be found below.

Assembly Member Jose Solorio (D-69) - Chair
(916) 319-2069
[email protected]

Assembly Member Curt Hagman (R-60) - Vice Chair
(916) 319-2060
[email protected]

Assembly Member Warren T. Furutani (D-55)
(916) 319-2055
[email protected]

Assembly Member Danny D. Gilmore (R-30)
(916) 319-2030
[email protected]

Assembly Member Jerry Hill (D-19)
(916) 319-2019
[email protected]

Assembly Member Fiona Ma (D-12)
(916) 319-2012
[email protected]

Assembly Member Nancy Skinner (D-14)
(916) 319-2014
[email protected]

 

[Bratastic007]

Good luck guys. I have a feeling you'll need it.

 

[sipowicz]

It most likely won't happen but it's good to e-mail anyway and remind them of how many responsible gun owners there are in their state.

 

[Ted Sheckler]

Good luck from NY.

 

[SSN]

Lots of luck from a native Californian who moved to the freedom of Texas too many years ago to ever go back.

 

[DCWilson]

I'd like to think this law has a chance of going somewhere, but the partisan alignment in Sacramento will keep almost all Democrats from supporting anything a Republican brings forward.

I know Jose Solorio, but I doubt I can persuade to him to see the wisdom of a completely unbiased CCW system in California. We have sheriffs up north who will issue a permit to anybody who can fog a mirror, and other LE chiefs in the most populous southern counties who sit at the decision end of a politicized review process whose approvals and denials are hard to understand and reconcile with one another. A rigorous and fair shall-issue system would block some of the iffier CCW permits from the hinterlands, and guarantee issuance to fully qualified and checked-out applicants in areas of greater population.

Solorio went the wrong way on the ammunition law that the governor signed last year, and I really don't expect him to take the sensible side on this one. But he's not a doctrinaire liberal and has pretty good anti-gang credentials. His position will depend on whether sheriffs and police chiefs he knows and respects tell him that shall-issue will work. If they tell him it's a bad idea, he'll go along with them and oppose the legislation. Won't matter to him what I or other shall-issue advocates might say.

 

[Mickey D]

Letters sent. Can't hurt.

 

[Greenbeanie67]

Wow! Good luck to all in California! Hope you will finally get to
join the Union, and have your rights restored.

 

[Wheelgunner840]

RI is a "May issue" state, and I don't see it changing anytime soon unless we replace all the liberals in the legislature.

So Cali, how did the vote go?


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