Moments ago, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 2 (Portantino), a bill designed to make CCW's more difficult to obtain and virtually impossible to actually put in practice. As we noted in our recent alerts about the bill, CRPA has already pushed back on this vindictive legislative response to the Bruen decision.
The new law tries an end run around Bruen by synthesizing a new approach to the now explicitly unconstitutional "good cause" requirement. It also declares huge swaths of the state as "sensitive places" where concealed carry would be outlawed, an approach called out directly by the Bruen majority opinion. The net effect is what anti-2A lawmakers intend: disarm the lawful.
