LAPD Asks To Cancel Citizens' Concealed Weapons Permits
LAPPL News Watch
March 29, 2019
The Los Angeles Police Department has moved to cancel most of the few remaining concealed weapons permits in civilian hands, according to new filings in a decades-old legal case.
Chief Michel Moore said in a sworn declaration he did not believe a group of people who obtained so-called CCWs as the result of a 1994 lawsuit were still entitled to the permits, because it was unlikely the individuals still faced extraordinary physical danger to their lives.
"I do not believe the continued wholesale allowance for each to possess a CCW license based on circumstances that may have existed 24 years ago is in the best interest of the public," Moore said.
Permits to carry a concealed firearm are allowed under California law but it’s up to local police chiefs and sheriffs to decide if an applicant has a valid reason to obtain one.
3 comments:
I remember at one time, more than a few years ago, there was ONE CCW permit in all of L.A. It was issued to the new Chief of Police from out of state who had not passed his California POST certificate before being hired.
When Baca was Sheriff I heard a lot of celebrities had CCW permits. Cha-Ching!
S.O. and P. D. were very much different. Getting a permit from the S. O. was not that hard as long as you donated big to the Sheriff's re-election campaign. The city, not so much. Also, as you say, celebrities got special consideration as usual.
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