It's still pretty simple if you ask me.
1. Go to a gun shop that has a gun you want to buy
2. Take an easy written test on safe gun handling and pass with 75% or higher. It's literally just common sense questions, almost nobody fails it. You only need to take it once.
3. The dealer files paperwork and tells you to come back in 10 days. The state does a background check to make sure you aren't a convicted felon or anything stupid like that.
4. After 10 days you come back to the store and pick up the gun.
Also good to note: California is on the
far lower end of firearm death rates in the country.