Gun rights groups are locked in a battle here in CA to eliminate the "good cause" clause from our CCW laws and turn CA into a "shall issue" state versus a "may issue". In CA a CCW can be issued by either a County Sheriff or Chief of Police, and their criteria can vary widely.
Many county don't recognize "self defense" as a valid "good cause", and as such, people were systematically locked out from getting a CCW unless you could figure out the kind of "good cause" that was acceptable by the LE agency you were applying to.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently made a landmark decision on a suit filled against the Sheriff in San Diego county that and struck down the "good cause" requirement stating that "the right to bear arms includes the right to carry an operable arm outside the home for the lawful purpose of self-defense."
While the Sheriff in San Diego is not going to file an appeal, the court's decision was too much for our beloved AG (Kamala Harris) to choke down, so her office is going file a legally dubious appeal... and all of this will likely end up in the CA Supreme Court. It will be great day for Californian's should the CA Supreme Court uphold the 9th Circuit Court decision... if CA can be turned into a "Shall Issue", there's much hope for the rest of the states... an maybe, just maybe a national CCW permit? Sigh... I can dream can't I ???
Years ago, we had a Police Chief (Eugene "Larry" Byrd) in the small rural town of Isleton, located in Sacramento County go "rogue" and was issuing CCW's as they should be... but under pressure from the heavy hand of the Sac County Sheriff's Office in concert with the Sac County AG office , he was shut down.
Hopefully the Chief in Detroit isn't subject to the same trial by media that Chief Byrd received here when he bucked the system.
