CA has mopped themselves into a box. Up until 2012, they allowed unloaded open carry, but their shall-issue scheme for ccw is issued by local jurisdictions at the descretion of sheriff’s and police chiefs. In much of CA, it is hard to impossible to get a ccw. So, in 2012 after banning most unloaded open carry and very restrictive ccw, they left much of the state in a position where NO bearing of arms is possible.