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Depends on the County. I think in the majority of counties it is relatively easy, but in the counties that people mostly live, not so much. San Francisco and LA
by SllX 8y ago
Depends on the County. I think in the majority of counties it is relatively easy, but in the counties that people mostly live, not so much. San Francisco and LA County in particular make it nearly impossible.
- wahern 8y agoIt's effectively up to sheriff of the county wherein the applicant resides. The sheriff in San Francisco County wouldn't grant a permit if your life depended on it, not unless you're rich or famous. IIRC the sheriff in at least one rural county granted them as a matter of course out of principle, as if to spite the SF sheriff. As you say, in general rural sheriffs grant them much more liberally than urban sheriffs. It helps if you know the sheriff or can be vouched for by someone the sheriff is familiar with. I imagine that in rural counties many middle-aged adults are only 1 or 2 degrees separated from the sheriff, anyhow, which suggests that rural and urban sheriffs are more alike then you'd think, especially if you exclude the two extremes; but the vast majority of people in urban areas will be too far removed from the sheriff's social circle. California's county-devolved permitting policies probably aren't quite as unequal and arbitrary as they superficially seem.