California’s SB 2 — Part 2, No CCW Training For You!
California’s SB 2 doesn’t only restrict licensed conceal carry from just about everywhere outside your home, it makes it more difficult for you to obtain a concealed carry permit in the first place. Despite the fact the entire purpose of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen case was to eliminate the subjective and arbitrary “may issue” rules which allowed local officials to deny licenses because the person didn’t have sufficient “just cause”, an unsurmountable and unpublished standard for the public to achieve. The anti-gun states are now resorting to other barriers to keep people from getting licenses.
California’s requirements and prices for getting a concealed carry license have always been higher because they want to make it as difficult, time consuming and expensive as possible to eliminate as many people as they can. Those who can afford it, the more wealthy and influential citizens of the state, have never had an issue getting a license. But then, those are the same people who have close personal relations with the issuing authority.
The new, stricter requirements include ALL the following minimum criteria:
· The course shall be no less than 16 hours in length.
· The course shall include instruction on firearm safety, firearm handling, shooting technique, safe storage, legal methods to transport firearms and securing firearms in vehicles, laws governing where permitholders may carry firearms, laws regarding the permissible use of a firearm, and laws regarding the permissible use of lethal force in self-defense.
· The course shall include a component, no less than one hour in length, on mental health and mental health resources.
· Except for the component on mental health and mental health resources, the course shall be taught and supervised by firearms instructors certified by the Department of Justice pursuant to Section 31635, or in a manner to be prescribed by regulation.
· The course shall require students to pass a written examination to demonstrate their understanding of the covered topics.
· The course shall include live-fire shooting exercises on a firing range and shall include a demonstration by the applicant of safe handling of, and shooting proficiency with, each firearm that the applicant is applying to be licensed to carry.
· A licensing authority shall establish, and make available to the public, the standards it uses when issuing licenses with regards to the required live-fire shooting exercises, including, but not limited to, a minimum number of rounds to be fired and minimum passing scores from specified firing distances.
· The licensing authority may require a community college course certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, up to a maximum of 24 hours, but only if required uniformly of all license applicants without exception.
· For license renewal applicants, the course of training may be any course acceptable to the licensing authority, shall be no less than eight hours, and shall satisfy the requirements of paragraphs (2) to (6), inclusive, of subdivision (a). No course of training shall be required for any person certified by the licensing authority as a trainer for purposes of this section, in order for that person to renew a license issued pursuant to this chapter.
· The applicant shall not be required to pay for any training courses prior to the initial determination of whether the applicant is a disqualified person.
But wait, there’s MORE! California decided to dramatically DECREASE the number of instructors authorized to provided conceal carry firearm training by coming up with a new, highly restrictive list of who can be a State CCW DOJ Certified Instructor. The state has now excluded NRA certified instructors who by some counts provide about 95% of the conceal carry firearms training in the state. As of January 1, 2024, the ONLY instructors authorized to provide this training are those certified by:
· Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, Department of Consumer Affairs, State of California-Firearm Training Instructor
· Federal Government, Certified Rangemaster or Firearm Instructor
· Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Firearm Instructor Training Program or Rangemaster
· United States Military, Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) as marksmanship or firearms instructor
· Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), State of California-Firearm Instructor or Rangemaster
· Authorization from a State of California accredited school to teach a firearm training course.
AND their certification training must be within six months. Because, you know the State of California wants to make sure the instructors are current in order to be safe.
AND in typical California fashion, this new regulation was announced as an EMERGENCY REGULATION just before the holidays meaning there would only be a tiny public comment period before it becomes law on January 1, 2024. Was this an emergency? Of course not. But by putting it out as an emergency just before it is scheduled to go into effect, it makes it impossible for effective legal challenges to be presented and for those impacted to make the necessary accommodations to continue to offer certified conceal carry courses.
The result will be a massive backlog of people attempting to get into the very few classes around the state offered by the new state certified instructors. This will delay applicants from getting the state mandated training they must have to get their concealed carry license and drive prices up even higher.
Current instructors who do not possess the proper certifications will now be scrambling to get into the very few classes available for non-law enforcement and military members, causing significant delays for them being able to offer concealed carry firearms training again.
Has concealed carry firearm training ever been shown to be deficient or a safety issue in the State of California? Of course not. But the ever-increasing requirements have always been used as a means of making it more expensive and more time consuming, thus further eliminating those who would otherwise be able to obtain the rare and highly coveted conceal carry license in California.
Again, I will point out that California wants to eliminate private citizens carrying firearms for personal protection in the state. By doing so, Californian’s become 100% dependent on the State of California for their protection. When the state has a complete monopoly on your safety, it can dictate whatever measures of control it wants, and you will have no other option but to comply and pay whatever they want for it.
This law will be appealed, and portions undoubtedly will be held up, but it will be in litigation for years. It will be heard and appealed numerous times, being held up until the makeup of the United States Supreme Court changes.
Let’s also keep in mind YOU are paying for both sides of all of this. Your (unlimited) tax dollars and your donations to Second Amendment groups will be fighting it out, and only the lawyers will be happy.
The ONLY way to keep more gun control laws from being passed is to STOP electing people who will not protect our natural, constitutionally protected rights.
Bob
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