Part of my story of getting into guns is my growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, the land of unicorns and rainbows, where alcohol flows freely but legal guns do not. San Francisco forced the last gun store, High Bridge Arms, out of business in 2015.
San Francisco has also long been a de-facto no issue jurisdiction for concealed carry permits in may issue California.
In the chapter on concealed carry in my forthcoming book, Gun Curious, I reprise my 2013 story of going to the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office to inquire about getting a permit in the heart of its no issue era. The story I tell is now firmly part of the history of concealed carry laws.
Chris Cheng recently reported that he received a concealed carry permit issued by San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto. Cheng is already well-known in the gun community for winning Season 4 of Top Shot and advocating for gun rights and inclusivity (I wrote about him here in 2013). He’s now added to his resume as a pathbreaker.
I will be interested to see who else follows in his footsteps.
Gun Culture 2.0 
I’m glad to see he succeeded. It stinks that it’s only good for two years.
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Incrementalism works. First get a significant number of permits into people’s hands, both “normies” and elites. Then, when the inconvenience to both in constantly having to renew becomes apparent and complained about, particularly given an _elected_ Sheriff is involved, the process can be improved.
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Among its many abuses and usurpations, SB 2 simultaneously doubled the training hours required for a CCW, while expanding licensing requirements for CCW instructors that in one fell swoop decertified 90% of them.
Fortunately, the part of SB 2 that essentially declared every public space in CA a gun-free zone, was stayed.
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Yeah, you know they’re going to comply with the law in as minimal and difficult way as possible.
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Wow. He and the other one should get together some time.
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