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CRPA Bylaws

Administrator — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:12:16 +0000

It can be tough to find an online copy of the bylaws for the California Rifle & Pistol association. Here is a link to a copy of the bylaws – the markups show changes proposed by Gene Hoffman, which were rejected without comment by the board of the CRPA.
If anyone’s got a clean copy of the bylaws, I’m happy to host it here.

California Rifle & Pistol Association

Administrator — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:06:24 +0000

Sometimes it’s tough to find information about the California Rifle & Pistol Association. I got copies of their recent tax filings from Guidestar and the CA Attorney General’s webpage and am making them available here so they can be found easily, and eventually OCR’d and indexed by search engines. Enjoy!

CRPA 2009 Form 990
CRPA 2008 Form 990
CRPA 2007 Form 990
CRPA 2006 Form 990
CRPA 2005 Form 990
CRPA 2004 Form 990
CRPA 2003 Form 990

CRPA Foundation 2010 Form 990
CRPA Foundation 2009 Form 990
CRPA Foundation 2008 Form 990

Concealed carry permits and homicide rates

Greg Broiles — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:05:36 +0000

Just to see if there’s an easy parallel to the More Guns Less Crime argument, I decided to compare the concealed carry permit issue rate to homicide rates. I found the California Dept of Justice’s page of homicide statistics per county per year. Turns out the five counties with the worst homicide rates in 2003 were:

Sierra .0286%
Inyo .0109%
Los Angeles .0107%
Mendocino .0102%
Alameda .0095%

and nine counties tied for the best, with no homicides in 2003:

Alpine
Amador
Colusa
Del Norte
Lassen
Marin
Mariposa
Modoc

There were two big surprises for me in those lists – that Sierra County turned out to have the worst rate, and that Marin County had no homicides in 2003. Looking at both counties over the longer time periods shown in the CA DOJ statistics, it looks like both entries are statistical outliers.

Sierra County only had two homicides during years 1994-2003; one in 1999 and one in 2003. If that one homicide in Sierra County in 2003 hadn’t happened, Sierra County would move from the county with the worst rate to tied for the best rate.

Marin County’s mean homicides per year during the years 1994-2003 was 2.7.

When the CA DOJ calculates homicide rates, they exclude counties with populations below 100,000 because they believe the statistics are misleading in that context. See Appendix I.

Concealed Carry Permits in California, per capita by county

Greg Broiles — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 07:31:37 +0000

I happened to notice that the California Dept of Justice’s Firearms Division has placed online a report listing, by county, the number of concealed handgun permits issued during the period 1990-2003. I thought it would be interesting to compare the issue rates by population – so I found some census population estimates by county, and combined the data sets, to get the per capital CHL’s issued in California. Turns out there’s some pretty big variation – between 3.5 percent of the population (Modoc County, for example) to .0013 percent (San Francisco County).

The five counties with the most CHL’s per capita were:

Modoc 3.5893%
Sierra 3.3409%
Trinity 3.1167%
Alpine 2.8950%
Amador 2.2939%

The five counties with the fewest CHL’s per capita were:

San Francisco .0013%
Santa Clara .0112%
Alameda .0139%
Los Angeles .0141%
Santa Cruz .0175%

Here are the county-by-county numbers for 2003, in descending order by ratio of CHL’s to residents. Also, here’s the data as a CSV file if you want to look at it yourself.