Another year and more CCW progress in CA. On Jan 1st, a new sheriff took office in
Riverside Co who campaigned on accepting merely "self defense" as a sufficient Good Cause requirement. That moved Riverside Co from light green to dark green on the CA CCW GC map.
In
Sonoma Co, 1 of the 9 SF Bay Area counties, new sheriff Mark Essick has said he'll liberalize CCW issuance like neighboring counties, so that moves Sonoma Co from light red to light green.
Yolo Co, that island of light red in a sea of green in NorCal, has said he'll maintain current policy but wants to hear from the community to decide, so it remains light red for now.
San Luis Obispo reverts back to yellow from light green due to the sheriff requiring city applicants to go through their city's PD first. Plus, they, like Napa Co SO, have always been on the border between light green and yellow, so while this is a change in color, it's not really a change in practice.
ETA: In
Los Angeles Co, new sheriff Alex Villenueve promised to issue more CCWs, but not accept "self defense" as sufficient Good Cause, so we conservatively changed it to light red from dark red.
All in all, slow, steady progress with no real losses. There are fewer and fewer non-green counties. Hopefully, by 2019 Dec 31 we'll break 120,000 CCWers in the state for another record.
So, until SCOTUS declares we have a Right to Bear Arms (openly? concealed? either?), we, behind the enemy lines in CA, continue the fight, county-by-county.