{"id":85168,"date":"2022-09-01T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85168"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:16:38","slug":"85168","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85168","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

California moved swiftly to limit concealed weapons after Supreme Court ruling. That plan backfired<\/a><\/p>\n

When the U.S. Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to concealed-carry gun laws that limit firearms in public places, California officials vowed to swiftly respond and enact new restrictions.<\/p>\n

But a measure to tighten the state\u2019s rules for concealed weapons failed in the state Capitol early Thursday morning, a shocking outcome for a plan championed by Democratic legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SB918 by state Sen. Anthony Portantino, D-La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge (Los Angeles County), would have added a slew of new regulations and background check requirements for gun owners to obtain permits. It also sought to greatly expand the list of public places where guns cannot be carried, including bars, parks, casinos, sports arenas, libraries, churches and gyms.<\/p>\n

Ironically, part of what spelled defeat for the measure was the rush by legislators to enact it quickly in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in June.<\/p>\n

Because Portantino added an emergency clause to the bill \u2014 so it would take effect immediately upon Newsom\u2019s signature \u2014 it needed a two-thirds majority to pass. The measure fell just two votes short on the last night of legislators\u2019 session, on a 52-23 vote in the state Assembly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Portantino and Democratic leaders, including state Attorney General Rob Bonta, worked feverishly throughout the night to try to whip the necessary votes. The bill faltered just after midnight.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court struck down a New York law requiring gun owners to show they have \u201cproper cause\u201d to get a permit to carry a handgun outside of their home. In other words, the state could not require applicants to demonstrate that they need a gun for self-defense.<\/p>\n

The decision in the landmark case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, was widely interpreted as striking down similarly restrictive laws in California and a half-dozen other states.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s conservative majority held, in an opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas, that states can require handgun owners to get a permit to carry in public as long as they use objective requirements to decide whether to issue a permit. Thomas also suggested that the government can still prohibit guns in \u201csensitive places\u201d like schools and government buildings.<\/p>\n

SB918 attempted to take those two openings and adapt California\u2019s law to be as restrictive as possible while complying with the letter of the ruling. Portantino said the state needed to act, in the wake of recent mass shootings across the country, to prevent more violence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need fewer guns on our streets, not more,\u201d he said in a statement earlier this summer. \u201cCalifornia will not wait to see the consequences of these trends and will act now to protect the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

In California, concealed-weapon licenses are generally available in the state\u2019s most rural counties, those with a population of fewer than 200,000 people. But such licenses have historically been difficult to obtain in metropolitan areas, and cities and counties can create their own restrictions and set fee amounts.<\/p>\n

Portantino\u2019s bill was opposed by gun-rights groups, including the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of California, which said the bill would create onerous hurdles for permit applicants and defines \u201csensitive places\u201d so broadly that it would contradict the court\u2019s narrow intent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very apparent that this bill is an attempt to pre-empt the expected ruling from the United States Supreme Court,\u201d Gun Owners of California said in a statement. \u201cBy your definition the legislature can designate any public place as sensitive.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California moved swiftly to limit concealed weapons after Supreme Court ruling. That plan backfired When the U.S. Supreme Court took a sledgehammer to concealed-carry gun laws that limit firearms in public places, California officials vowed to swiftly respond and enact new restrictions. But a measure to tighten the state\u2019s rules for concealed weapons failed in … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85169,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85168\/revisions\/85169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}