If you've traveled to California in recent years, you know that, despite the state's obvious woes (though San Francisco is, hopefully, turning things around), nonresidents can't legally carry a firearm for self-defense. The situation is only marginally easier for residents. Given the state's other restrictions on even nonlethal self-defense tools, that's left visitors with a choice between abiding by rules seemingly crafted to favor criminal predators or ignoring the law and doing what needs to be done. But that may be changing now that a federal judge has ordered that out-of-state members of several gun rights organizations suing California over its gun laws must be allowed to apply for concealed carry licenses.
California's Legal Gauntlet, Now More Widely Available
"Together with the Second Amendment Foundation, Gun Owners of America, and Gun Owners of California, we sued Attorney General Bonta to force him to recognize the right to carry of nonresidents as part of our lawsuit in CRPA vs. LASD," the California Rifle & Pistol Association announced. "While the Judge ruled against us for the time being in our argument that California must honor CCW [concealed carry weapon] permits issued by other states (known as 'reciprocity'), she did agree that California must at least allow residents of other states to apply for a California CCW permit."
