The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department settled a lawsuit over “excessive delays” for issuing concealed carry firearm permits to residents, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday.
The DOJ sued the LASD in September 2025, alleging that the department had denied citizens their Second Amendment right to bear arms “not through outright refusal, but through a deliberate pattern of unconscionable delay that renders this constitutional right meaningless in practice.” The settlement between the DOJ and LASD will speed up the process for residents seeking to obtain concealed carry permits, and it also requires the sheriff’s department to post data publicly about how long the different stages of the concealed carry permit process have taken.
