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California’s Carry Restrictions Crumble—Judge Sides with Gun Rights
AmmoLand ^ | August 27, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 09/01/2025 6:23:12 AM PDT by marktwain

On July 1, 2025, United States District Court Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo granted summary judgment to Firearms Policy Coalition members to obtain California Concealed Carry Permits. Judge Bencivengo ordered the Plaintiffs and Defendant to submit proposed orders within 30 days. From the order

For the above reasons, the Court grants Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment as to their facial challenge pursuant to the Second/Fourteenth Amendment and denies the request for relief pursuant to the Privileges and Immunities Clause. The parties are ORDERED to meet and confer and submit a proposed order for an injunction consistent with this order within 30 days. 

It is SO ORDERED.

The California Attorney General submitted a proposal requiring applicants to attest, under oath, that they intend to spend time in a California jurisdiction within the next 12 months. The proposal includes four pages of explicit instructions about how non-residents can apply and what laws they must observe.

The plaintiffs submitted an order that says California licensing authorities are permanently enjoined from enforcing Penal Code sections 26150(a)(3) and 26155(a)(3). Judge Bencivengo chose the Firearms Policy Coalition’s order. Here it is:

Defendant Attorney General Rob Bonta; Defendant’s officers, agents, servants, employees, and attorneys; and any other persons who are in active concert or participation with Defendant, are hereby permanently enjoined from enforcing California Penal Code sections 26150(a)(3) and 26155(a)(3) as to CCW applications submitted by Plaintiff Firearms Policy Coalition’s members who are not residents of California, including the named Individual Plaintiffs.

The order took effect on August 21, 2025.

California vests the issuing of concealed carry permits with sheriffs and police chiefs. The issuance of permits varies enormously between jurisdictions. Thirty years ago, sheriffs and police chiefs could issue permits to anyone they chose.

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The title is a bit misleading. The court has ordered California to all non-residents to apply for California concealed carry permits.
1 posted on 09/01/2025 6:23:12 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

“all non-residents” should be “allow non-residents”


2 posted on 09/01/2025 6:24:09 AM PDT by marktwain
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The problem we have in any Dem jurisdiction is that Dems do not believe in the right of armed self defense, and will prosecute you and destroy you with lawfare for exercising it.


3 posted on 09/01/2025 6:26:48 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: marktwain
The Crime Prevention Research Center estimates the cost of obtaining a California permit was over $1000 for the initial permit, and over $600 for renewal, in 2023.

Ouch!

4 posted on 09/01/2025 6:30:40 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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