One of the more positive moves from the Trump administration on gun rights has been Attorney General Pam Bondi’s announcement that the Department of Justice was investigating the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department over their extensive delays in issuing concealed carry permits.
For a long time, issuing authorities could take as long as they wanted and, unless the state intervened in some way, they could get away with it. Sure, Bruen said that was unacceptable, but pretty much everyone acted like it wasn’t a real right at stake, so who cared?
Well, Bondi took the right move, and the sheriff’s department can’t be particularly thrilled.
It seems the news for them gets even worse.
The U.S. Justice Department’s Special Litigation Section describes itself merely as one of several sections working within the Civil Rights Division.
In truth, they are much more than that.
The Special Litigation Section was created to protect people in several areas, including those in jails or prisons, individuals with disabilities, confined youth and “people who interact with state or local police or sheriffs’ departments.”
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert G. Luna, who became the department’s 34th Sheriff just 17 months ago, has more than 17,000 staffers, sworn and non-sworn. Luna became sheriff after a 36-year career at the Long Beach Police Department, where he served as Chief of Police. However, should the Special Litigation Section get the case, there is absolutely nothing he can do to prevent them from determining whether his staff were, as Bondi described in her press release, “engaging in a pattern or practice of depriving ordinary, law-abiding Californians of their Second Amendment rights.”
Sheriff Luna may try to slow the federal investigators’ progress and keep them from finding and reporting the truth, which would be futile. What Bondi didn’t say is that the Special Litigation Section has never lost a case—not a single one.
Uh oh.
Sucks to be Luna, doesn’t it?
Now, this doesn’t mean that the investigation is a slam dunk at this point. It’s entirely possible that they’ll look into things and decide that Luna did the best he could with what he had. I’m doubtful, but I have to at least acknowledge the possibility.
But if they don’t reach that conclusion, it sounds like these folks will roll in and absolutely destroy the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office.
This is a DOJ entity known for getting its ducks in a row and absolutely making sure their case is air-tight.
It’s kind of nice to see the DOJ actually care about the right to keep and bear arms for a change.
I’ve had concerns about Bondi. To be fair, I still have concerns, especially since I still haven’t seen that report on unconstitutional gun laws she was supposed to have turned in weeks ago. Maybe it’s sitting on a desk somewhere or something, but we haven’t seen it and that’s concerning.
But we have seen more pro-gun moves from Bondi in the first couple of months in office than I really thought we’d see in the first year. It probably says a lot about my low expectations, if we’re being honest, but I have to give props where they’re due.
Here, Bondi’s not just investigating the LASD, but using the big dogs to do it, though in hindsight, it really is the appropriate entity to do so.
Now, we need to see them drop the hammer and then find someone else doing the same stupid, unconstitutional garbage and make it clear that the days of the DOJ looking the other way as our rights get trampled on are over.
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