Many Many years ago
I tried to apply for my CCW in San Bernardino County
The regulation book was almost as thick as a ream of paper.
Among the regulation requirements was a year of pre law classes
and you had to supply a list of all of your neighbors names and addresses in a 6 block radius around your home so that the Sheriffs could interview every single one of them about you.
They estimated that it would take you 2 years in the best case.
At the end of the book it said that they could revoke the CCW at any time for no reason.
I threw the book in the trash.
I do not know how it is now.
Rules like that are designed to permit them to give carry permits to elites (the super wealthy, celebrities, bankers, government officials, judges, elected office holders, etc.), and deny them to all others. These laws leave lots of room for arbitrariness in application.
