depends on which county you live in. Out side of the urban areas they are easy to get.
In sacramento county, the old joke was, you had to be giving the sheriff a BJ to get one.
The few he did give out, half of them turned out to be graft/ illegal. Now there is a new sheriff that said he was going to start giving them out... the 1st thing he did... out of the 6 legal non leo CCWs in the county, 3 came up for renewal... they were denied.
Good old diane feinstein, has had one for well over 30 years, from san fransico county no less.