IIRC California was at some point as open and permissive about guns as, well, pretty much every other state west of the Missisipi. Then a decidedly unpopular section of the population (read 'those of African descend') went assembling in peaceful protest about certain rights they rightly had but were denied. While carrying their guns.
Didn't take long for the laws to change to being rather restrictive.
Didn't take long for the laws to change to being rather restrictive.