Alameda County Sheriffs Threatened With Lawsuit for Slow, Invasive Concealed Carry Permitting

he Alameda County Sheriff’s Department is facing criticism over its issuing of concealed carry weapon (CCW) permits, with the California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) sending a pre-litigation letter.

In addition to delays, complaints range from constitutional violations to invasive obstructions that cross not only California law but also a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, according to Attorney Konstadinos T. Moros, who represents the CRPA.

“Other than the rare elites who were already getting permits from Alameda before, we don’t know anybody who has been issued a permit in Alameda,” he said. “We haven’t received word that they are issuing permits, and further, they are placing all sorts of unreasonable requirements on applicants.”

Those requirements include asking whether an applicant has a home security system or cameras at their residence, where applicants intend to carry, and proof of income.

“That’s an invasion of privacy and it’s a barrier to keep people from applying in a country where six-year-olds shoot their teachers,” said California attorney Rex Parris, who is also mayor of Lancaster.

In his Sept. 16 letter to Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez, Moros references N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which emphatically decided that the state of New York’s proper-cause requirement for obtaining an unrestricted license to carry a concealed firearm violates the Fourteenth Amendment…. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times)