Frohickey, that's my thought on this. I think license fees should be increased to somewhere between $500 and $1000, with the money going either exclusively to sheriffs' depts (if they support it it will pass) or to the general fund or to someone's pet project. Whatever. I know that's a rip off but it would be better than what we have now.
CA has a pop of about 35mil. In most shall-issue states, about 1% to 2% of the pop gets permits. Assume permits in CA are expensive and people here are not enthusiastic about carrying when/if it goes shall issue. So we would have about 350,000 people packing if CA went shall-issue (as opposed to 40,000 licenses today). If permits went for $1000 (yes, expensive) that would add $350 million to the state budget! That is NOT trivial! That's not a small number!
Once we have a bill we can improve it over the years.
I would just like to see some bills start getting introduced, maybe once a year someone should introduce it.
One MAJOR problem we have here in CA is that the Public Safety Committee is controled by socialists (really) and it kills everything like this in committee, so we don't even get to force our reps to take a position on it.
THAT'S WHY THE COUNTY SHERIFFS' ELECTIONS ARE SO IMPORTANT! Talk to the candidates, find their position on CCW, tell your friends about it, and VOTE! If more sheriffs started issuing this whole thing would be a lot easier.