Reply #3: Actually, it's not out of the woods quite yet.. [View All]

[X_Digger]

It has to go back to the assembly for concurrence because the senate made amendments.

This is the same thing that happened last year, the clock ran out.

Many pro-2nd amendment supporters are ambivalent over this measure. California is only one of eight states that severely limit a citizen's ability to obtain a concealed carry license. In previous court cases, the courts have said that such restrictions aren't an infringement because citizens could just choose to carry openly*. If this passes, expect another suit along previous lines-- which could open up the concealed carry licensing requirements.

So the end result of an open carry ban could be more people carrying concealed.






* The ban on loaded open carry came as a result of then-Governor Ronald Reagan signing the Mulford Act in 1967 in response to the Black Panthers.