(a) The applicant carries around large sums of cash as part of their job; or
(b) The applicant has been subjected to serious, credible threats of violent attack that law enforcement feels it can’t adequately protect against.

As a practical matter, the only people who meet the “good cause” requirement under criterion (b) are celebrities and the politically-connected.

Welcome to may-issue California.

No reply expected…

The recently published policy differs only slightly from the official policy under Carona, yet Carona allowed the non-business-related frequent transport of valuable goods (guns) to be a cause worthy of issuance. OC has not been “shall issue” for a long time.

At the moment though; the Carona scandal is still news, and since the media seems to think Carona was handing out CCWs like candy at a parade, I suspect most of these public releases are meant to make her public role in the story as positive as possible while the mostly anti-ccw media is still interested. I expect (or hope) that after the media loses interest, there will be a small release that publicly states that Carona did not abuse the CCW system as much as was assumed. Orange county is, for the most part, pro-ccw and Hutchens knows she will not be reelected if she changes the CCW status quo (favoritism excluded, of course :)) Orange county is one of the very few heavily populated california counties that actually issued CCWs, and losing it would be quite a loss.

The only wild card is that she came out of retirement to accept this appointment, and it is not known if she will even seek reelection. If she doesn’t care about reelection, all bets are off.

I’ll reserve my judgment for after I start seeing reports of revocations and rejections. Only last week did she reopen processing for the reportedly 2 foot high stack of CCW apps.

“Citizens rights are such a pain. Since you can’t be omniscient on who should be granted permission to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights, why worry about their 1st Amendment rights, either? I think you should just ignore the whole Constitution, as it will make your job so much easier. Citizens and their pesky rights! Who do they think they are… Law enforcement? We should all be considered criminals until we can prove our innocence and ‘worthiness’ to you? Don’t bother with a reply. Your ignorance of the Constitution and blatant disrespect of honest American citizens disgusts me.”

Hopefully, her employment will not last long. Power corrupts…

Thanks for playing.

Obviously it hasn’t been updated to reflect the new Sheriff.

If only we had incorporation….

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