City of Milpitas

[BCA142]

Has anyone applied with the Milpitas PD? I found their information online. Reading over their process I find a disturbing requirement. They want the applicant to turn over their firearms they want included on the permit, to their armorer, so they can be inspected. It doesn?t say how long they will keep these but I would not feel comfortable handing over my firearms to any unknown person. Have any other agencies required this of their applicants.

[Djantlive]

Never heard of that. Most IA inspect the pistols during qualification but none I know of keep them.

[Snoopy47]

Yikes...............

My city process simply inspects them at qualification

Anything to present a new hurdle I suppose.

I have to provide three letters of character reference, which depending on your circle of friends can be quite a challenging request. Then you have to get them to write the letters, then you have to get them signed in ink, then you have to collect them.

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We can argue back and forth about the reasonability of such things, but if you can grease the wheels painlessly and just jump through the hoop then I'd recommend doing it.

Of course, surrendering firearms to be returned at some unknown period in the future I'd lawyer up and make sure you have a rock solid chain of custody and ownership of those firearms. Purchase receipts, DROS documents, photos, photos during the hand off, all the paperwork the PD gives you, etc.......

The funny thing is................... the liability aspect they are trying to protect themselves against with malfunctioning CCW firearms they approved is going to be FAR LESS than the liability they are going to get hemmed up with in a mishap with inventory control.

If that's what they are worried about, they could required the CCW use only OEM configured weapons with zero modifications. Then any change is on the CCW holder and the PD is released from that liability and at worst it's placed in the lap of the manufactures.