DC, AB1040 isn't any major news.
It started life as a "shall-issue for judges and reserve cops" system and has been gutted down to making the training standards good for four years.
Either way, it's really not a big deal. With or without it in either form, it doesn't allow new fees or harsher training than what AB2022 already specifies (and it's fairly reasonable). It doesn't make the issuing authorities exempt from obeying the existing issuance laws, it doesn't invalidate Salute vs. Pitchess, and they still have to obey "equal protection" principles.
Now, it bears monitoring in case anybody tacks anything really nasty onto it but as is, it's a yawn.
There's another bill entirely that would make holders of restraining orders eligible for a "shall issue" permit, and that's got a strong chance at passage. There's another bill that would make concealed carry sans permit a felony if you're not in "otherwise lawful possession" of the gun in question, which is bad in that it's an incremental loss but...it would only kick in for certain in "stolen gun cases" so...it really wouldn't affect any of us if we pack pieces we legally own.
All of these bear monitoring but at present, they're not "total toxin" and worth freaking out over.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say I'm GLAD the shall-issue for judges and certain cops is gone from AB1040. Why? Because with these people not declared "special classes of citizen by the legislature", other areas of law say that unequal treatment is illegal. And *that* in turn is what I'm trying to use as a prybar to blow this whole sucky system wide open.
Jim March