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[thebronze]

Second Amendment Rights Are Reaffirmed After Sacramento County Sheriff's Office Changes Carry License Policies Say Gun Rights Organizations
Case Continues Against Yolo County to Secure Right to Self-Defense


Bellevue, WA and San Carlos, CA (October 25, 2010) - The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and the Calguns Foundation have dismissed their case against Sacramento County, California and its Sheriff, John McGinness, after the Sheriff modified his handgun carry permitting policy. Law-abiding Sacramento County residents may now successfully apply for permits to carry handguns by asserting self-defense as a basis for carry permit issuance. A one-year residency requirement has been eliminated, as has policy language that tied self-defense to arbitrary geographic factors.

While Sacramento County has changed its policies, other counties still fail to recognize that self-defense is a legally sufficient reason for issuance of a handgun carry permit. The litigation will continue against Yolo County and its Sheriff, Ed Prieto, on behalf of SAF, Calguns, and Davis resident Adam Richards. Additionally, this past March, Calguns supporter Brett Stewart unsuccessfully asserted self-defense as a basis for seeking a carrying license from Sheriff Prieto . The Sheriff’s written policy states that “self protection and protection of family (without credible threats of violence)” are insufficient reasons to exercise Second Amendment rights. Mr. Stewart will seek to join the litigation as a plaintiff in this case, now styled Richards v. Prieto.

“We are very happy to have been able to work with Sheriff McGinness to assist Sacramento County in revising their policies and practices,” said Gene Hoffman, Chairman of the Calguns Foundation. “Over the past year, more than 30 of our law abiding members and supporters have received licenses to carry firearms with ‘good cause’ statements that are simple variations of self-defense. Even though the Sheriff is retiring at the end of the year, both candidates to replace Sheriff McGinness have publicly stated their support for Second Amendment rights and that they consider self-defense a compelling reason for issuance of gun carry permit.”

“The Second Amendment Foundation will continue working with the Calguns Foundation and keep funding attorney Alan Gura’s lawsuits in California until everyone’s firearms civil rights are fully protected,” added SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “Together, we will see many more legal victories.”

For those who wish to apply for a CCW permit, the Calguns Foundation maintains an informational portal to assist applicants in all 58 California counties as part of its recently announced Carry Licensing Compliance and Sunshine Initiative. The Sacramento County page has details on the actual procedure and successful good cause statements and is available at http://bit.ly/CGFSacCarry

Sheriff Turkey-Neck: "We'll be having an announcement on that soon. We're going to win that."

Sorry, John, capitulating and settling a lawsuit is not winning.

Toldja! Sheriff Turkey-Neck is a bald-faced liar.

[Kingsman]

I hope LA county is next

[Flintlock Tom]

This part

A one-year residency requirement has been eliminated

raises a question for me.
What's the new residency requirement?

[wildhawker]

This part

raises a question for me.
What's the new residency requirement?

If you reside in Sacto, go apply.

[Gray Peterson]

Did you get your one million dollar insurance policy yet? Oh wait, that's my county.

You in San Mateo or Alameda, Citizen 14?

[jcardona1]

Can somebody shed some light on on the good cause statement? There's a page for it in the application, but the memo from the Sheriff says this should be on a seperate page (memo dated in '09).

Also, the CGF information page says we choose one and use it as our statement. Is it as simple as this one sentence? Or do we write a paragraph? Essay? Thesis? Documentary?

Known Accepted Good Cause Statements:

Choose one as appropriate:

•I wish to carry a firearm for self defense and the defense of my family.
•I wish to carry a firearm for self defense.

[thebronze]

Can somebody shed some light on on the good cause statement? There's a page for it in the application, but the memo from the Sheriff says this should be on a seperate page (memo dated in '09).

Also, the CGF information page says we choose one and use it as our statement. Is it as simple as this one sentence? Or do we write a paragraph? Essay? Thesis? Documentary?

Don't make it harder than it is. RTFQ/FTFD.

[jcardona1]

Hmm, I think I found my answer. So now my question is, do I still include this on a seperate page? Seems rather silly when it's just one sentence:

5. What do I write on my Sacramento app for good cause?

There are two good cause statements on the calgunsfoundation.org Sacramento page (linked handily in the OP...) that we know have been issued against. Just use the one sentence. Please don't over think it.

-Gene

[wildhawker]

Hmm, I think I found my answer. So now my question is, do I still include this on a seperate page? Seems rather silly when it's just one sentence:

Sacto doesn't like the Good Cause statement on a document which we can request via public records. They think the "other" page is exempt, and they are incorrect.

Just use the one sentence please. It's really not difficult and you should not create problems where none exist.

[jcardona1]

Sacto doesn't like the Good Cause statement on a document which we can request via public records. They think the "other" page is exempt, and they are incorrect.

Just use the one sentence please. It's really not difficult and you should not create problems where none exist.

Thanks, just wanted to make sure I had the correct information before I submit this. The answers to these things are scattered throught countless posts/threads so it's hard to keep up with everything that is discussed as I don't spend a ton of time here.

[wildhawker]

That's why you can just go to one place for all your carry news: www.gotcarry.org (also linked by www.calgunsfoundation.org/carry and www.gotccw.org)

[tiko]

I got my appointment today, for 2-3-11

[thebronze]

I got my appointment today, for 2-3-11

Holy sh*t!

[Markus]

any idea on when they are going to do orange county?

[dantodd]

any idea on when they are going to do orange county?

This is a good place to start.