San Francisco Residents Seeking Concealed-Carry Permits Endure Long Waits, Fear Scorn

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From the WSJ.

San Francisco Residents Seeking Concealed-Carry Permits Endure Long Waits, Fear Scorn
Applications have risen since Supreme Court ruling on gun rights

By Zusha Elinson Photographs by Amy Osborne for The Wall Street Journal
March 10, 2023 9:00 am ET

SAN FRANCISCO—A San Francisco electrician hides his gun case in a backpack and his ammunition in a toolbox when he loads up his van for a day at the shooting range some 20 miles outside the city.

Though he shares many of the liberal values of his neighbors—“I am an equality-loving pronoun-checking, hippie, San Francisco guy”—he conceals his status as a gun owner, worried that they would ostracize him if they knew.

The 42-year-old is one of 285 residents seeking a permit to carry concealed weapons in public in a city that has long had some of the tightest firearm restrictions in the country.

The San Franciscans who want to carry guns include software engineers, accountants, middle managers and firearms instructors. They fall along the entire political spectrum, but many have at least one thing in common: They don’t want to be identified because they are worried about judgment from their neighbors or employers.

Their names are discoverable under public records law with some exceptions, according to legal experts.

Cities such as San Francisco that routinely denied such permits have received a flood of applications since the Supreme Court ruled for the first time last summer that the Second Amendment protects Americans’ right to carry guns outside the home for self-defense. In the past, authorities here said they received fewer than 20 applications a year.

Democratic leaders in states such as New York and California have sought to pass measures to blunt the effects of the ruling by imposing more thorough background investigations or training requirements for those seeking to carry concealed weapons in public. But a judge put most of the New York law on hold in October, and California’s failed to pass the state legislature.

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[EFK]

They should feel scorn for choosing to live in San Francisco at this point, or the entire state of CA for that matter, let alone anything else.

[bogey1]

That's a shame.

[JenniferG]

Clean your shoes of human feces before getting in the truck.