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OCCCWS

Every law abiding resident in California has the right to defend themselves at home. We believe that right should not end when you step out your front door.

The fifty-eight county sheriffs and numerous chiefs of police in California control the issuance of Licenses to Carry Concealed Weapons (CCW). These licenses are often issued in arbitrary and capricious schemes which favor the wealthy, famous, or well connected. If you are a local politician, or a movie star, or a wealthy businessman, you have a much better chance of getting a CCW license than do auto mechanics, single mothers, realtors, and countless other ordinary law abiding citizens.

After decades of political favoritism, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department began issuing to ordinary law-abiding citizens in 1998, giving residents a reasonable chance of obtaining a CCW license. Recently, with the appointment of a new Sheriff, this trend is likely to be reversed. It appears that our new Sheriff will be willing to grant CCW licenses to judges, prosecutors, and other ‘special classes’, but that ordinary law abiding residents of Orange County will again be left unable to defend themselves adequately once they leave their homes. 

On June 26th, 2008, the Supreme Court ruling in the Heller case stated unequivocally that the Second Amendment guarantees an ‘individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation’. Despite this ruling, Sheriff Hutchens has stated that the Second Amendment has ‘nothing to do with CCW’ – a position that flies in the face of reason. Her words hint at nothing less than a desire to disarm the ordinary law abiding residents of Orange County.

OCCCWS was formed to fight this unfortunate turn of events. OCCCWS will do so with every legal means available to us, and in so doing will further the cause of fair CCW issuance throughout California.

OCCCWS is an Orange County Political Action Committee.

OCCCWS
2973 Harbor Boulevard
Suite 247
Costa Mesa CA 92626-3912