This is how slave states like California prevent poor and working people from exercising their civil rights.
If you want to legally carry in CA, you need to spend several hundred dollars on a 16 hour safety course, another few hundred on the permit fees and background investigations, and whatever it costs you to take enough time off work to do the interviews and training. For me, it was around $2,000 to get my CA CCW, including the time off work. Then another few hundred every 2 years for the renewal, which required me to reapply for the permit with a new fee, pay for another background check, and again take the same safety course I took 2 years before.