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Pozo woman gets no (GUN)LOVE from DMV

July 12, 2011

A Pozo woman is taking aim at the California Department of Motor Vehicles after officials denied her request for a personalized license plate that would say GUNLOVE.

Elizabeth Beeman, a card-carrying member of the NRA, learned of the DMV’s decision in a letter, dated June 16, 2011, from A. Correa, Manager of the Special Processing Unit in Sacramento.

In the letter, Correa denied Beeman’s request, citing the California Vehicle Code, Section 5105: “The department may refuse any combination of letters and numbers that may be considered offensive, which could be misleading, or in conflict with any existing license plate series issued.”

The irony, according to Beeman, is that the DMV originally issued her license plates with GUNLOVE back in 1992 without incident. She had the plates for several years and no one complained. Beeman eventually removed the GUNLOVE plates, but recently decided to put them back on her car.

Her first stop was the Paso Robles DMV office. “Everyone was very friendly and supportive,” said Beeman. “I had a choice of paying about $450 for a new sticker  since the plates were expired, or I could save money and start the process over. That’s what I chose to do.”

Beeman, whose father has long been a respected California manufacturer of air rifles,  said she was shocked and dismayed when Correa’s letter arrived, especially since she had already owned GUNLOVE plates for years. Equally frustrating is the fact that she has been unable to reach Correa by phone to get an explanation.

A spot check of the DMV web site Monday night confirms that GUNLOVE is not available, though plates reading GUNHATE, A55ORGY, FOURPLAY, and EATMEOK were approved online for application.

“I’ve been around guns since I was a kid. I’m an excellent shot. There is nothing wrong with being fond of guns.” said Beeman, who intends to contact both state Senator Sam Blakeslee and state Assemblyman Katcho Achadjian to solicit their support in obtaining the desired plates.

“This is about political correctness getting out of hand,” Beeman said. “What the heck happened to freedom of speech?”


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Should’a paid the $450. Extortion is the key in CA!


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I can assure you if she had paid $450, there would have been no issue.

It would have been just a matter of updating.

When they started a new application, they fell under the whim of whoever is now in power.


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The DMV is very random regarding what plates they pick and which ones they don’t. I had one denied years ago. I picked another one that said the same thing just spelled differently (spelled phonetically) and they let me have it. I feel it depends on whoever’s desk your plate app. falls on.


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As I mentioned when I called into the Dave Congalton Show when Elizabeth was on, this is NOT a Second Amendment issue, it is a First Amendment issue, period. I am not a big fan of guns, I’m sure most who read here understand that; I can even find it a little sad that someone professes that they “love guns”, but it really boils down to freedom and self expression. Ms. Beeman should definitely be able to have her personalized plates and if she cannot get any help from the Paso Robles DMV office, she really should consider contacting the ACLU about her First Amendment rights being trampled. I’m sure that the NRA and all other gun rights advocacy groups would line up to help her in her fight, but I really think that the ACLU should be her second step if she cannot get help at her local DMV office.


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She should run this one up the flag pole and if she finds it was one person’s arbitrary decision, make that person back it up and challenge it in court.


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“…plates reading GUNHATE, A55ORGY, FOURPLAY, and EATMEOK were approved online for application.”


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Those plates were approved but GUNLOVE wasnt? What the he11 is wrong with this picture?


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Yet another quasi-anonymous (hiding behind bureaucracy) public “servant” establishing his/her fiefdom via scoring limp-noodle political points with a minority opinion.


Great. I’m sure this “administrator” has a nice paycheck every couple weeks and looks forward to stable retirement…


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Funny… years ago, while a college student in Westwood… so it was a while ago… a certain Brentwood resident would drive by in her Rolls Royce with the plate: RRGASM .


With so few folks with personalized plates, I am surprised the the DMV would have such an issue… sounds political, unfortunately.


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So what is politically, morally or socially incorrect about owning guns. Our country exists because of civilian ownership of weapons. Remember well that the British were after the stash of weapons held by civilians in April of 1775 when they marched on Lexington and Concord and the citizens of massachusetts protected them, fired the shot heard round the world and the rest as they say is America.


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That’s efficiency for you. Pay $450 for a sticker or pay $49 for new plates. I guess prison labor is cheaper than ordering stickers from China. :)


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