Alright- allow me to outline it step by step;
Step 1) The Mulford Act, after forty years of institutionalized 2A oppression has made carry of a exposed sidearm an anachronism in the state of California. In it appears subsection (e) which most police assume supercedes any 4th amendment protections. The opening overture is to introduce limited exersizes of open carry where it remains a legal activity and to endure the violations of these intrusions.
Step 2) With the repetition of this activity in such numbers and frequency, the authorities encountering open carriers in their various jurisdictions are educated- either by the open carry advocates or the legal departments of the agencies who come into contact with open carriers, who recognize that overstepping their authority represents a significant risk of litigation. This limits the action police take when contacting open carry advocates to specific perameters. (Ideally, only taking the amount of time to conduct a 12031(e) inspection, nothing more.)
Let me interject something after step 2 that many people may not be aware of, many of the senior LE officers, especially the chiefs who are more politician than police officer, are very much in lock step with the liberal/democratic legislature. Which makes sense the police want more power to secure their budgets and numbers, the legislature passes laws that help them and take away from our citizens rights, as example unloaded open carry laws from 1967. We all know this law is unconstitutional, but it was passed during a time when FEAR, and communist infiltrators drove the masses and nobody would dare object. So know we have 40+ years of a law that never should have been but the next generation just accepts it as it is on face value because its for the "safety of the community" which is BS.
In Kalifornista, the legislature is in lock step with many if not all of the judges. So you have a 3 ring circus each helping the other out, to grab power and control, and maintain power and control. How do I know this, Because at gatherings where ALL 3 members from this circus show up and sit together and shake hands and carry on quiet conversations its obvious that there is a very definite power conserving structure at work. No lower level California judge is going to upset the apple cart and go against the political climate that LE, Judges, and the Legislature thrive under.
This is why there is no one Panacea case that is going to change everything, we all wish it would, realistically it will never get by the 3 ring circus of power. Just look at how Heller and Macdonald got butchered by antigun groups and democrats over the phrase "in the home".
This is also why, each year the CA legislature will continue to bring forth anti gun bills because:
1) the outgoing, termed out Representative (Democrat) is the one tasked with bringing the bill so it doesnt hurt their current political career, and in a few years they can sneak back into government somewhere else. (watch for Saldana to come back)
2) the Liberals/Dems hold a majority of votes in the capitol, so the odds are good that anything written in crayon on paper will pass.
3) A pro gun bill will meet with partisan failure, no Dem will ever vote for it especially against party lines.
4) passing an anti gun bill doesnt harm any Dem/liberal... the ammunition band last year was ruled unconstitutional, and what did they do write the same bill again this year just change a few words around.
5) all they need is 1 Psycho to go on a shooting rampage and they get all the free press and publicity to make their "We have to do something" campaign a shot in the arm and the fearful masses support them.
What we need is to work harder to get pro 2A legislators in office, and keep anti gunners out. We have to engage and inform all those people who are asleep and wake them up and get them to vote Pro 2A. We need to use the internet more effectively and recruit more people to the cause, get better organized, start winning hearts and minds. Talk to more people, teach them, get them angry and scared about whats happening.
The media is a powerful manipulator of people and it works on fear and drama. The anti-gunners know this and use it effectively to scare people into accepting the idea of "just a few more rights sacrificed for feeling safe". We need to start using media and literally scare people into waking up and realizing that the only responsibility for their own safety is themselves. .