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Tue Sep 30, 2025, 03:55 PM Sep 2025

DOJ lawsuit alleges Los Angeles sheriff processes concealed carry licenses too slowly

Source: ABC News/AP

September 30, 2025, 11:39 AM


LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday, alleging it violated the Constitution by moving too slowly to process gun licenses for people who want to carry concealed weapons. The sheriff's department's “unreasonable delays" in granting licenses violates California residents' Second Amendment right to bear arms outside the home, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court.

“The Second Amendment protects the fundamental constitutional right of law-abiding citizens to bear arms,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. “Los Angeles County may not like that right, but the Constitution does not allow them to infringe upon it.

Messages were sent to the sheriff's department seeking comment. The lawsuit comes after the DOJ began analyzing concealed-carry permit applications in the county starting last March.

“Almost two months after receiving notice of the Division’s investigation, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department provided data and documents that revealed only two approvals from over 8,000 applications, and that the Sheriff’s Department set out interviews to approve licenses as far as two years after receiving the completed application,” the DOJ statement said.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/justice-department-lawsuit-alleges-los-angeles-sheriff-processes-126083711





This, along with Keystone Kash essentially handing out ghost guns, tells you all you need to know.
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DOJ lawsuit alleges Los Angeles sheriff processes concealed carry licenses too slowly (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP
There's a legal time limit? C_U_L8R Sep 2025 #1
Get those danged guns out there ! People need to be shootin' other people ASAP ! nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2025 #2

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