Posted on 12/22/2023 8:24:22 AM PST by DogByte6RER
To Whom It May Concern;
The California Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed “emergency regulations” regarding the issuance of concealed carry weapons (CCW) licenses smack of complete political hypocrisy and demagoguery, as well as political retaliation against Californians who may disagree with the current policies and leadership within the California State government.
The California DOJ’s “emergency regulations” conspicuously leave out a large number of certified firearms instructors, who are affiliated with such gun groups as the National Rifle Association (NRA), the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA), among others. Most, if not all, of these firearms instructors have excellent records in safely and competently instructing and qualifying firearm owners in the safe and legal use of their personal weapons.
The NRA even provides training and support to Law Enforcement, our Armed Forces, and to private security stretching back over sixty years. Despite these long and mutually beneficial relationships between military/law enforcement and such private firearms groups, the California DOJ and others within State government seem to harbor an animosity and bias towards these law-abiding private gun associations.
Adding insult to injury, the California DOJ, along with other State government leaders, has been on a totally misguided mission of releasing dangerous and career criminals from state prisons. This only further endangers the safety and security of law abiding Californians while also necessitating the purchase and use of legal firearms by more and more state residents. A growing number of Californians are compelled to obtain firearms precisely because the California DOJ does such an abysmal job of prosecuting and incarcerating dangerous criminals.
Your agency should be on a very short leash and under lots of public and political scrutiny as the California DOJ irresponsibly released the private information of countless numbers of Californians’ firearms records. This incompetent and unconscionable data breach by your agency really means that you have little to no credibility in properly managing any program that deals with law-abiding Californians exercising their Second Amendment rights.
Lastly, as elected and/or appointed state officials, you have sworn an oath to uphold and defend our U.S. Constitution as well as our California Constitution. It is high time that you begin to show deference and respect for all Californians’ Constitutional rights, in particular the Second Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled in the landmark New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. vs. Bruen case decision that was decided in June 2022. The California DOJ is obligated to faithfully follow the Bruen decision.
In the meantime, stop behaving like commissars and for once respect and uphold the Constitutional liberties of all Californians, including the right to keep and bear arms in accordance with our Bill of Rights. It’s time for you to scrap these proposed “emergency regulations” and draft a new set that are more inclusive of trained and certified instructors and that allow Californians to constitutionally exercise their Second Amendment freedoms as recognized in the recent Bruen decision.
California DOJ, you must faithfully adhere to our U.S. Constitution; learn it … live it … love it.
Sincerely,
Rick Reiss Temecula, California
Comments submitted via e-mil on December 15, 2023 to:
So, just what are these new emergency regulations?
“So, just what are these new emergency regulations?”
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ccwl-finding-of-emergency.pdf
Looks like they’re regurgitating much of what the court just told them was illegal. IMHO this is flagrant contempt of a Federal Court order.
sorry California- but there is NO “emergency regulation” cited in the second amendment- You can’t take a right and turn it into a earned merit based system-
[[Looks like they’re regurgitating much of what the court just told them was illegal]]
NY did too when the courts slapped hocvhul down for her unconstitutional edicts- the court proclaimed that she can’t set conditions to a right, making folks earn a right- basically- (they worded it differently-)
Concealed means concealed.
Yes, they can. CaCaLAnd has been under the boot of commie trash for years, especially since they “elected” enough non-conservatives to the legislature that they have a super majority and don’t need to discuss anything.
This is exactly how Newsom will rule the US when he is installed into the WHouse in 2025. By fiat.
CaCaLand will only respond to force. Just like the progressive bullies that now run everything.
“This incompetent and unconscionable data breach...”
Not incompetent at all. They know what they’re doing.
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