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The Department of Justice has put Glendale, California, on a hard deadline. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon gave the city until November 4 to halt first-time concealed-carry fees of about $2,000 and renewal charges of about $1,300. If Glendale keeps collecting those sums, the Trump Justice Department has warned it will file a federal civil-rights lawsuit.
The theory of the case is constitutional, not clerical. The DOJ is framing Glendale’s permit charges as an unconstitutional barrier to carry. Concealed carry is the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms. A city that attaches a four-figure price to a first license and another four-figure price to remain licensed is rationing that liberty by income. Washington is prepared to take that injury to federal court.
Glendale is charging about $2,000 for a first-time concealed-carry permit and about $1,300 for a renewal. Those are the amounts Dhillon told the city to halt. The warning converts a local fee schedule into a civil-rights confrontation. Glendale can drop the charges by November 4, or it can defend them before a federal judge.
This is the Constitution sitting above a municipal ordinance. Local governments do not hold a veto over the Second Amendment, and they do not hold a pricing power that makes the right unusable for ordinary people. A civil-rights lawsuit is how the United States enforces that ranking when a city refuses. Glendale’s fee table does not outrank the Bill of Rights.
Harmeet Dhillon put the city on notice for the Department of Justice. The Trump DOJ is not waiting on Sacramento. It is telling one California city that a $2,000 first-time carry fee and a $1,300 renewal will be met with a federal complaint if they are not withdrawn. Officials in Glendale now have a date certain.
Federal litigation would put that fee schedule in front of a court that answers to the Constitution, not to a city budget. The Department of Justice has already named the harm: an unconstitutional barrier to carry. Glendale can end the dispute before a complaint is filed by stopping the charges. If it does not, the next move is a lawsuit.
November 4 is the line. Halt the first-time fees. Halt the renewal fees. Fail to do that, and the Department of Justice has said it will sue. Carry is a right secured by the Constitution, not a product a city may meter. Oaths run to that Constitution, and Glendale’s clock is running against the oath.
References
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-warns-it-will-sue-california-city-over-2000-carry-permit-fees-6110304
- https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/10/29/trump-doj-to-glendale-ca-lawsuit-coming-if-city-doesnt-immediately-halt-2000-concealed-carry-license-fees/
- https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2026/10/29/california-city-on-the-clock-after-doj-warns-of-lawsuit-over-carry-license-fees-n1234305
- https://townhall.com/news/jeff-charles/2026/10/29/this-city-wants-to-charge-2000-to-carry-a-firearm-harmeet-dhillon-just-put-them-on-notice-n2685531
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