Basura Blanca
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So national reciprocity makes it harder for me to carry in California than I have it now?
On April 20th (?) you can put it to the test since that's when out of state permit applications will open up to members of several named pro-2A groups.
What a certain person here doesn't get, is that the state's reaction to Bruen was to lessen the usefulness of a CA ccw permit by way of declaring everything connected to the surface of the planet as a "sensitive area" (i.e no carry allowed). Bruen reined in the counties in the state which were historically no-issue-no-matter-what, in spite of the state being generally may-issue. Of the three major metro areas, San Diego, where I live, has vacillated over the decades from ok issuance, to spotty issuance, to fairly good issuance prior to Bruen. After the failed Peruta lawsuit, our then sheriff surprisingly took a hands off approach and things really began to open up. So-called "good cause" wasn't a major hurdle like it was in LA or up north where issuance was practically zero. After Bruen, things picked up even more, so much so that permit issuance is about a year wait time and that's in a department that is friendly to CCW. The reason LASD is being sued for the same thing is because they've intentionally made the process long and arduous.
But none of that matters to anyone now since SB2 was let stand (and now with Antonyuk getting the same treatment at scotus just the other day), so even if you do have a permit, the patchwork of legal carry areas is difficult to navigate. Literally. And CADOJ just sent out the memo I posted to reinforce to LE that they want to bust people for it. Does that mean Bruen was bad? No. Of course not. It was a necessary step in the process. Does it mean national reciprocity is bad? Again, no. But it means a permit holder from anywhere won't enjoy the same level of practical carry as their home state, because California has dug in its heels to derail this in any way they can.
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