CA: Orange County Sheriff sued over carry permits

[ClydeFrog]

Orange County CA sheriff?...

Im not quite sure but isn't the Orange County CA sheriff under a indightment or convicted in a major scandal?
Sheriff Corona?
Is that political mess slowing down the CC process?

 

[sigcurious]

Carona hasn't been sheriff for years now. This suit was filed well after he was replaced and is directed at the current sheriff's issuing practices.

 

[ClydeFrog]

Fed time....

I checked online, he's now a convicted felon in a BoP location in CO.
He had a promising career too. Just like Bernard Kerik of the NYPD.

 

[Jim March]

I told Ed Worley of the California NRA in 2002 that Carona was trouble...that corrption in permit issuance was still going on. He didn't listen.

 

[press1280]

I thought Carona basically issued to everyone?

 

[Jim March]

Nope. He ran two different CCW processes:

* Normal folk got one of a bank of upper-rank staffers, who varied from "True Blue NRA" to "Sarah Brady Zombie Clone". Your odds were a total crapshoot depending on which one you got.

* "Special people" who paid big money (well over a grand per the initial federal indictment) got to go straight to Carona. This group included some actual Las Vegas mobsters.

 

[HarrySchell]

The trading of CCW's for campaign money or other favors has occurred in quite a number of CA districts.

Carona ended up to be another politician with his hand out, for he had something to sell.

That is the root failure of may-issue. It ignores human nature. By definition, preference is given to the connected and wealthy.