Abbreviations commonly used in this forum

[Librarian]

IA -- Issuing Agency

SO -- Sheriff's Office

PD -- Police Department

CCW -- Carry Concealed Weapon

LTC -- License To Carry

PC -- Penal Code

AFS -- Automated Firearms System, DOJ's database of guns and gun owners

"going G" or "declaring G" - Penal Code allows cities to make an agreement with the county Sheriff that all LTC apps for a city will be handled by the County; before the renumbering of the Penal Code for 2012, that was listed as 12050(g); it is now 26155(c).

[fizux]

Here are some more - please feel free to edit, redact, recycle, incorporate and delete entire post, et cetera, as appropriate.

SOL = Statute Of Limitations
vSI = Virtual Shall-Issue

This one doesn't get a lot of use. It mostly refers to elected Sheriffs who have policies that are quite lenient in some aspect of issuing; I think Sacramento is a good example. // Librarian

[Librarian]

See also the sticky in General Guns, http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...ad.php?t=78606

[Edgy01]

And SB can be San Bernardino county or Santa Barbara county. Don't use SB because not everyone is in San Bernardino.

[Paladin]

And SB can be San Bernardino county or Santa Barbara county. Don't use SB because not everyone is in San Bernardino.

You forgot San Benito County.

OC: depending upon context can mean Orange County, Open Carry or Oleoresin Capsicum (the active ingredient in pepper spray)

CA9: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals of the federal judiciary

SD: depending upon context, can mean San Diego County, the City of San Diego, or self-defense