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Santa Clara, CA, sheriff busted for "pay to play" gun permit issuance
Story here. From what I've heard, that's not an uncommon practice with California's "may issue" carry permit system. "Good cause" for carrying somehow correlates with making political contributions to the sheriff.
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...Oh, it goes way deeper than just CCW permits. Sheriffs Posses have been a lucrative area of political money and support . Join the posse and get a reserve deputies badge. The CCW comes with it. Anti gun Sheriffs seem to be especially fond of that approach. Diane Feinstein had a CCW for a .25 auto as Major of S.F.
.....if you give CCW's to Newspaper Editors, you don't get stories like this....
New York City's Sullivan Act of 1911 was perhaps the first "pay to play" law benefiting Tammany Hall. Only, recently NYPD pistol licensing bureau was caught selling licenses. Nassau County on LI is reported to have issued less than two dozen fully carry licenses because only the connected can show "good cause". (Same in NYC. Ironic that an ill tempered, belligerent like Robert deNiro has a NYPD "full carry" license.)
In some upstate counties judges will issue "full carry" licenses on request, in other counties the judge will issue virtually none.
Absurdity is an upstate "full carry" license is valid in all 57 counties except NYC (five counties) yet if stopped administratively restricted ("target and hunting"; there is no such restriction in NYS Code) licenses from other counties may or may not be respected as "full carry" depending on the LEO involved.
It is made deliberately arbitrary to present an implied threat of legal challenges.
Abuse of power is fundamental to gun control efforts; and should be offered more frequently as a reason against empowering licensing officers to judge "need".
Pay to play is fundamental to ALL government, city, state, and federal.
In that respect, carry permits are no different than building permits, business licenses, use taxes, or any other fee. Sometimes it is an outright bribe, and sometimes it is a campaign donation. At best it is paying every legal fee they can find, simply to justify the existence of the inspector and agency.
Whatever it's called, it's still men with guns demanding you pay the "vig".
...'Ceptin, this is Woman with gunz and a CCW pen for the buying. When a right becomes a privelege, of course it costs money. Every privelege costs something, some behavioral change or money cost.
When a right is turned into a privilege, a result is government corruption. This wouldn't happen if California just followed the Constitution.