Actually the legal experts on gun rights in CA seem to be looking at this as a good thing. I don't have the full background, as all the legalese here is incredibly confusing. The gist of it is that apparently during one of the last fights for "shall issue" a judge brought up the point that any Californian can carry a firearm OC unloaded, and if they needed to protect themselves, they simply had to load it, so there was no need for shall issue.
Now that unloaded OC has been banned, my understanding is that the progressives may have shot themselves in the foot, because they just banned their previous "out" on shall issue. I'll have to hop over to Calguns and see what the lawyers there are saying. On the face of it though, between this and national reciprocity (if it passes) there is a very strong case for CA shall issue.
That's my understanding on the Unloaded OC, most felt it was better that CA put themselves in a legal corner, than whatever good the few OC activists around CA were doing.
However, I'm trying to find the status on some other very bad anti-gun bills Brown either signed, or allowed to passively pass, such as
ammunition registration. Never mind. I guess he vetoed it, and what may-issue CCW there is in CA, it got a little reform I guess, perhaps removing some cronyism.
However, the other two bills, now all long-guns require registration starting in 2014, and DROS background fees can be given directly to the DOJ, (presumably the money was given for hunting or shooting range support before?) Are not good.