I'm a lil' nosy here ; did he have a concealed carry permit, and maybe if he left of his own volition, or someone kidnapped him-- they knew about his gun and took it with them ?
Omo.
I hold a concealed permit and have taught courses on self defense for women that covers basic CCW laws. Getting a permit in California is more difficult than most states
and I have heard students say some counties around Los Angeles and the Bay Area are taking up to a year. The time it takes and the requirements vary state by state - for example, I held a CCW in Indiana where I used to live and though I had to pass a full background check, fingerprints and all, but there was no training requirement and due to their not being a lot of applications it was processed in a matter of weeks. In Illinois, there was training required and the process took months.
California Senate Bill 2 (SB2) went into effect Jan 1, 2024 and made drastic changes to the process of applying for a CCW license in California. The “good moral character” requirement is no longer in the law.
However, it was replaced by another subjective standard: “reasonably likely to be a danger.” Issuing agencies will conduct more thorough background checks. This includes reference checks and a review of publicly available information (think social media accounts). Penal Code section 26202
California Code, PEN 26202. has a list of factors that will make a person ineligible to receive a CCW license. These prohibiting factors include being the subject of a restraining order, being convicted of specified crimes during certain time periods, and abusing controlled substances. (Info in the CA DOJ website:
Regulations: Carry Concealed Weapons Licenses
The CCW license are not issued by the STATE but may be issued by a sheriff of a county, or the police chief or other head of a municipal police department of any county or city. (California Pen. Code, §§ 26150, 26155, 26170) and said law enforcement agencies reserve almost exclusive authority to issue or deny California CCW licenses. The courts will not overturn their decision to deny someone a permit
unless the decision is “arbitrary, capricious, or entirely lacking in evidentiary support.”
So, at age21, I'd say it's unlikely he has a CCW as he'd have to be 21 before he could even apply and given his conviction in Santa Clara County, his background check would be thorough and likely time consuming, given the number of applications the state is processing. 
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