California – -(AmmoLand.com)-On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta posted the names and addresses of concealed-carry permit holders on the California Department of Justice website.
In a press release, Bonta claimed the move was to “improve transparency and information sharing for firearms-related data and includes broad enhancements to the platform to help the public access data on firearms in California, including information about the issuance of Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) permits and Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVROs).”
He also claimed it will help promote “gun violence” research, and foster “trust between law enforcement and the communities we serve.”
Make No Mistake, This Was 100% BS.
Bonta’s move was clearly retaliation for the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, which affirmed the right to bear arms outside the home.
Bonta’s true intent was to put Californians on notice that if they want to exercise this right, they will pay a price, and the price will be their privacy, safety, and security.
You see, Bonta has created a handy reference guide for burglars, home invaders, and other criminals. Now, they’ve got a searchable database of firearm owners and homes where guns are kept. Guns have always been the third most sought-after item by burglars, after prescription meds and cash.
What’s not included in Bonta’s press release, tweets or media interviews is the chilling effect this will have on the Second Amendment in the Golden State. Anyone who wants to carry a defensive firearm must now risk a complete loss of their privacy and the increased likelihood they and their family will be targeted by criminals.
I’m sure California’s booming gun-ban industry, which likely played a significant role in developing this idea, has already made plans on how to use the database to its advantage. Look for massive doxing, which will include false red-flag complaints, cyber-crimes, and other online harassment.
At one time California led the nation in online data security….
The California Database Security Breach Notification Act (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.29), which became effective in 2003, requires “any person or company conducting business in California that owns, licenses, or stores certain types of computerized personal information to disclose any breach of the security of the system by notifying California residents whose information was or is reasonably believed to have been, accessed by an unauthorized person.”
I wonder if California Attorney General will notify the state’s CCW permit holders that their data has been breached.
I’m guessing he won’t.
Terrorism isn’t terrorism if the government does it. It’s law enforcement.
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Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
It’s time to give California back to the Mexican government since they don’t believe in freedom or the constitution.
Bonta is just like his predecessor Becerra. Let’s publish all politicians and bureaucrats addresses for the same sake.
Post any and ALL info on Mr. Bonta, his family, job, phone number, address, etc. online (or just fliers left randomly). Time to finally deal with these arrogant, crime committing ASSHOLES !!!!!
The California branch of the NRA, the GOA, the 2nd Amendment Foundation and everyone else should publish the names and address and phone numbers and work and school address of this guy and ALL his family, including his parents, cousins, aunts/uncles, EVERYONE. Public info. Get it published out there. And then do it again. What a P.O.S. And don’t bother to tell me it’s dirty politics….because it IS! And we need to do the same. If this happened in my state…I’d be doing it on every public social media I could find.
Try locating the same info for members of the CA legislature, you can’t. They block that info by law because they don’t want you to know it, they block public records that way for privacy.
I wonder how many state, local and federal politicians, and their bodyguards, had their information scrubbed from the list before it was published? I’m almost willing to bet that there isn’t any liberals on the list, while they probably left the conservatives on the list.
As a side note, if you move away from Cali to any other state because you are fed up with stupid crap like this, please do not bring said stupid crap like this with you when you vote in the new state.
Just sayin’