In a country with the Second Amendment in place (one of the few countries on earth in which the citizens are allowed to exercise the right to own a firearm), it’s appalling that there are places that get away with requiring you to apply for and get a permit to be able to exercise those Second Amendment rights.
Absolutely unconscionable.
Yet here we are with several states and municipalities thinking that they have the right to prevent people, especially non-criminals, from being able to own a gun or, at least, being able to delay that ownership.
How can you tell where people didn’t actually learn civics in school? They vote for politicians that think that they’re above the Constitution. You know, by taking away gun rights.
Trump’s Department of Justice is finally stepping in about one of those local governments now, though. Michael Clements writes,
The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for allegedly denying residents’ Second Amendment rights through an inordinately long concealed weapons permit application process.
The lawsuit, filed by the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, comes on the heels of a DOJ investigation and a partially successful lawsuit filed by the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA).
In the lawsuit filed on Sept. 30, the DOJ accuses Sheriff Robert Luna of overseeing a system designed to deny citizens’ Second Amendment rights.
“Between January 2024 and March 2025, Defendants received 3,982 applications for new concealed carry licenses,“ the lawsuit states. ”Of these, they approved exactly two—a mere 0.05 percent approval rate that cannot be explained by legitimate disqualifying factors alone.
“This is not bureaucratic inefficiency; it is systematic obstruction of constitutional rights.”
Exactly two out of nearly four thousand permit applications were approved.
That is simply outrageous (and I’d like to know what those two people did to actually get those permits or who they had connections to).
There is absolutely no justification for withholding all of those gun permits.
If the court system does its job, the DOJ should crush LA County’s “defense” in this suit, and I look forward to hearing that.
