C.D. "Chuck" Michel heads the law firm of Michel & Associates, PC, the largest law firm practicing firearm and related law West of the Mississippi. Michel & Associates, a professional corporation, was formerlyTrutanich-Michel, LLP until Chuck's law partner, Carmen Trutanich, was elected City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles in May 2009.

Chuck is pleased to offer www.CalGunLaws.com as a public service to California citizens who choose to own a gun for sport, hunting, or to defend themselves and their families.

Mr. Michel has been lead counsel in more than 50 jury trials. He has represented a number of clients in high-profile cases that garnered significant state and national media attention. He has appeared as a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association of America, the California Rifle and Pistol Association and other associations, and for individual clients on dozens of television and radio interviews and in hundreds of newspaper articles. He has also published several articles and editorials in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily Journal and several other state and national newspapers. Mr. Michel is also a Professor at Chapman University School of Law.

Michel & Associates' lawyer advocates know the ins, the outs, and the history of California's gun laws. We know where to find answers when the often convoluted laws do not provide one. We know the state and local requirements. We know state and local gun control politics and politicians. And we know the folks administering the laws.

Our clients include the National Rifle Association, the California Rifle & Pistol Association, law enforcement agencies, gun shows, shooting ranges, gun importers, manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and owners. For years we have been helping our clients achieve their unique goals.

Civil litigation. Lobbying. Regulatory compliance advice. Criminal defense. Whether challenging the constitutionality of a law, advocating to stop or change one, or simply determining the most cost effective way to comply with one, we have been there.

As former California Attorney General Dan Lungren once noted, changes in the California political landscape and new legislation make the California firearm regulatory scheme as complex as the California's byzantine environmental and tax laws. California state statutes regulating firearm manufacture, distribution, sale, and possession now number over 700. That is not including local ordinances, administrative regulations, and executive agency formal and informal policies and letter rulings. And the politicians are not backing off.