Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
by flubert on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:06PM
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>Open carry licenses do exist, and you can get them, from the Sheriff of a County with population under 200,000;
It looks like the 30 California counties with population of less than 200,000 have a combined land area of 73,063 square miles, while the 27 counties with populations over 200,000 have a combined land area of 83,022 square miles. So about 47% of the state is composed of counties with a population less than 200,000.
Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
by dragonwriter on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:36PM
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There's either an error in one of the counts or a county left out somewhere in there, because California has 58, not 57, counties, but it probably doesn't change the percentage of land area much either way.
Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
by flubert on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:54PM
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Good catch. I apparently was off by one in counting the over 200,000 population counties, but there are actually 28 counties in my spreadsheet, so the area should be correct (but someone might want to double check anyway).
Open carry licenses do exist, and you can get them, from the Sheriff of a County with population under 200,000; see Penal Code section 26150(b)(2).
> and open carry is illegal in California under California Penal Code Section 26350
26350 applies to unloaded firearms, and there are a whole slew of exceptions to it in sections 26361-26391, including, most critically, an exception for anyone permitted to openly carry a loaded firearm on the same circumstances (Section 26362) Which includes, naturally, people with open carry permits as described above. (see Section 26010)
Rather than linking each individual section mentioned above, I'll just link the Table of Contents for Division 5 of Title 4 of Part 6 the Penal Code, which covers all of them.
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayexpande...