From unlikely places.
(1) Fresno County, Calif.’s sheriff, a woman, is going to start issuing CCW permits more often. CA’s CCW law is “may issue,” meaning that county sheriffs can accept or deny permits arbitrarily, up to a point. What this means is that it’s all but impossible for a qualified individual to get one in LA County, but all but guaranteed to get one in most rural counties. Sheriff Margaret Mims is going to push Fresno County from harder to easier.
(2) Maine’s Attorney General, and one of two of the state’s Congressman, both Democrats, plus both of its RINO U.S. Senators, are asking SCOTUS to apply the Heller decision to states and localities. I approve of what they’re doing, but they didn’t need to ask — Antonin Scalia’s majority decision in Heller didn’t use the excuse that D.C. was wrong b/c it was a Federal territory, which I worried that SCOTUS would do to weasel out of a big precedent-making decision. Those four politicians should be leaning on any recalcitrant areas within their own state/district to comply. I suppose what they want are for SCOTUS to put cities like Chicago and New York under consent decrees, in order to make them comply, instead of their pretending to comply for outward consumption, but dicking around so much that they’re really not complying.
