Calif. Gunnies: FREE DATA, PLACE YOUR ORDERS -=NOW=-! :)

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Jim March

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Attention California RKBA activists:

I'm spending next weekend in LA, at the offices of the NRA's lawyer in California, Chuck Michel.

In his offices are three solid filing cabinet drawers of data on CCW permit issuance, statewide, something over 10,000 pages. Gathered via Freedom Of Information Act query, they cover the stated policies of every Sheriff and about 150 police departments - and the total records of CCW issuance for every permitholder, going back five years. There's a couple of "holdout" cities but the more critical Sheriffs are mostly complete.

I'm going to hand-sift through this stuff, looking for "evidence of illegality or equal protection violations". I'm not going to be alone; Dennis Kennedy, an Orange County CCW instructor and expert on the SoCal law enforcement scene as it applies to CCW is in on this too...he's going to be spending a few hours several days during the week, plus all day Saturday. I'll pull Saturday plus Sunday. He's going to concentrate on SoCal jurisdictions, I'll focus on NorCal, we'll meet in the middle somewhere :).

What we're going to get for each jurisdiction is:

* Stated policy memos, especially the type they're required to produce under AB2022 effective 1/1/99, a partial permit reform law.

* "Obvious evidence of cronyism in issuance", mostly cases where a permitholder's "good cause" is clearly pathetic.

* Any evidence of illegal cross-jurisdictional agreements, or clues as to what another department is up to.

* A list of EVERY current permitholder's name, city of residence.

This will all be in electronic form.

WHO WANTS THEIR COPY?

:)

What we want to do is distribute these files to local activists who will investigate the "cronyism" links suggested by the data. Run the full list of names past the Sheriff's campaign contributors and the contributors to other politicians if possible. Wherever possible, investigate "what made these people special enough to score a permit", especially in the tight urban jurisdictions.

I've already done a preliminary report of this type for Contra Costa County, you can see it here: http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw (Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or greater required.)

I need to know who's interested in producing similar works for their local areas, using what Dennis and I can feed you. We'll also provide Email support as you dig, help with writing/editing if you want, whatever is necessary.

I need to know who's interested, ASAP. Because if I've got a choice between going through, say, San Mateo county and it's cities versus Santa Clara County and I know there's somebody in SC who's dyin' for this stuff, guess which one I start with? And there's no guarantee we'll finish the whole state. So by dropping me EMail, you make sure the counties with the most interest get top priority :).

Now, what happens to the finished reports?

They go on my site for download to anyone...and after the November elections, they go to the legislature as part of the NRA's overall report on CCW in California and why it needs fixing PRONTO. We also try to get the media to pay attention. And people in each area can use the local file to prove to a lawyer that there's equal protection violations and/or illegality up the yingyang worth suing over; along with the formal legal opinion on CCW already published on my site and the Guillory and Salute case law, getting a lawyer and a lawsuit together is dead simple. Once you get to where you're about to sue, you'll need a full paper copy of your jurisdiction's total FOIA response and that's fine, it'll be shipped to you. But for all the preliminaries, the "condensed reports" will be all you need.

So who wants to seriously strike back at these bastards?

:)

Jim March
Equal Rights for CCW Home Page http://www.ninehundred.com/~equalccw
 
I do, I do...SLO county please.

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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
 
You bet :).

Understand: I'm handing out the "raw data files" in private EMail. Once the "full reports" are created by or with the aid of local activists, we'll create two versions: one with names edited out for web display, and one with names intact for giving to legicritters.

This was my EMail response to a guy I've known for years as a solid RKBA activist, and who managed to legitimately score a permit:

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Which brings up a good point: we are keeping people's names, and *ESPECIALLY* their legitimate "good cause statements" utterly private. Go look at my "Contra Costa Cronies Roster" file for examples.

In cases where the "good cause" is obviously reasonable, we're not even digging further. There's such cases in Contra Costa County but they're not in the "Cronies Roster". Even bad Sheriffs and Chiefs sometimes give out
"legit permits" - we don't have to prove EVERY permit by a given top cop is bogus to have a strong equal protection case.

OK?

I had to clue Chuck in on this point: he wanted to scan all 10,000+ pages and "stick it on the net for all to see". I explained that a smaller selection of each would be easier to electronically manage and wouldn't piss off or expose to risk thousands of "legit" permitholders.

Upshot: myself, Dennis Kennedy and a third volunteer name of Gene Dreher, an NRA Member's Council officer in SoCal will be pouring through the "raw data" and will have access to your full file (with street addy, phone number, SSN and a few other bits edited out by the cops if they did it right) - and Chuck and his staff, but nobody else. And it ain't gettin' spread anywhere else, ESPECIALLY not the internet!

Sound good?
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So if any legit CA permitholders are reading this, relax :).

Last thing: it occured to somebody in another forum that records of revoked permits could yield some interesting data too, answering questions like "are elite permitholders screwing up in large number?" or "are incoming top cops randomly dumping the permits of supporters of the last regime?".

Jim
 
I surely hope that Chuck Michel, and any person involved on the pro-Constitution side, has EVERY WORD in his/her records backed up and hidden in a safe place.

Afterall, this is a war to the finish, and it would not be at all surprising for Michel and others such as he, to find their offices and homes burned down and every record in them destroyed.

I lived in L.A. for 35 years, and fought this battle. I know the enemy will stop at nothing to win.

Best of luck to you guys and gals. Watch your six.

FWIW
 
How about posting a copy of Dianne Feinstein's CCW permit (with the appropriate fields Blanked out of course) so we can post it on the Million mom site and Hand gun control et. al. sites to expose the hypocrisy of the anti gun types. Or any other ANTI types with CCWs in CA.
 
Wouldn't work. Fineswine has stated publicly she "needs" her permit to protect herself from us.

To an anti, no explanation is necessary. To us, no explanation will do.
 
There's a LOT of interest in Santa Clara :). Moreso than any other county so far. That being the case, you'll all get whatever is in there plus each other's EMail addys, you can either coordinate efforts, go solo, form different groups, whatever :).

Coordination will have benefits though. One guy or team can go through permitholder campaign contributions to the Sheriff, another can focus on state legicritters, yet another on Board of Supes, etc.

Santa Cruz, check. I think I know of somebody else there too. That'll be an interesting one...

San Fran is another place with MAJOR interest :).

Jim
 
Some bad news: DiFi hasn't held a *California* CCW for many a moon...near as we can tell, SFPD shredded the records eons ago.

She's now suspected of being in the "Deputy US Marshal" program offered to Fed legislators, the Supremes and others that allows WashDC and nationwide carry.

But there's no proof on paper, so far.

Jim
 
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