2026年8月13日 晚上9:55 协调世界时 / 路透社
作者：乔纳森·斯坦普尔
2026年8月13日 晚上9:55 协调世界时 更新于2小时前
8月13日（路透社）——洛杉矶县警长办公室同意加快对携带隐蔽武器申请者的许可审批，以此了结美国政府起诉其系统性、违宪剥夺加州民众第二修正案权利的诉讼。
美国司法部提起的这起诉讼的和解协议已于周四在洛杉矶联邦法院提交，尚需法官批准。警长办公室在达成和解时并未承认存在不当行为。
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尽管共和党籍总统唐纳德·特朗普的政府时常与民主党执政的加州官员产生分歧，但去年9月提起的这场诉讼更多聚焦于官僚体制问题，而非政策分歧。
洛杉矶官员被指控侵犯公民持枪权，他们通常需要耗时九个月审核许可申请，有时甚至需要两年多时间才能约谈申请人。
根据起诉状，2024年1月至2025年3月期间，警长办公室共收到3982份新隐蔽携带武器许可申请，但仅批准了两份。
司法部表示，洛杉矶方面此后已“大幅”缩短了等待时间，目前符合相关州级时限要求，包括在90天内启动审核流程。
周四达成的和解协议要求该县继续遵守这些时限要求，并维持一套符合2022年美国最高法院标志性判例纽约州步枪与手枪协会诉布鲁恩案的许可制度，该判例扩大了美国人在公共场所携带武器的权利。
该判决指出，“许可申请审批过程中漫长的等待时间”可能构成违宪。
警长办公室及其律师均未立即回应置评请求。
领导司法部民权司的哈米特·迪隆在一份声明中表示：“警长已经意识到了这一问题，并投入了大量额外资源，包括新的审批软件和更多人手，以大幅缩短等待时间。”
2025年，洛杉矶县人口约为970万。
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Los Angeles to speed up gun licensing process to settle US government lawsuit
2026-08-13 9:55 PM UTC / Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel
August 13, 2026 9:55 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
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Aug 13 (Reuters) – The Los Angeles County sheriff’s department agreed to speed up licensing for people who want to carry concealed weapons, to settle a U.S. government lawsuit accusing it of systematically and unconstitutionally denying Californians’ Second Amendment rights.
A settlement of the U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit, opens new tab was filed on Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, and requires a judge’s approval. The sheriff did not admit wrongdoing in agreeing to settle.
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While Republican President Donald Trump’s administration is regularly at odds with officials in Democratic-led California, its lawsuit last September focused more on bureaucracy issues than policy differences.
Los Angeles officials were accused of violating citizens’ right to bear arms by typically waiting nine months to review license applications, and sometimes more than two years to interview applicants.
According to the complaint, the sheriff received 3,982 applications for new concealed carry licenses between January 2024 and March 2025 but approved just two.
The Justice Department said Los Angeles has since “drastically” reduced wait times and now meets applicable state deadlines, including that reviews begin within 90 days.
Thursday’s settlement requires the county to continue meeting those deadlines and maintain a licensing regime consistent with New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court landmark that expanded Americans’ rights to arm themselves in public.
That decision said “lengthy wait times in processing license applications” could prove unconstitutional.
Neither the sheriff’s department nor its lawyers immediately responded to requests for comment.
“The sheriff acknowledged the problem and devoted substantial additional resources, including new processing software and additional personnel, to cutting waiting times dramatically,” Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division, said in a statement.
Los Angeles County had about 9.7 million people in 2025.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Matthew Lewis
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