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The approved application is valid for 30 days. There is a 10-day waiting period for the delivery of any firearm. The buyer must pick up the firearm within 30 days of the original submission of paperwork (if approved), or he or she will have to have a dealer resubmit the paperwork and another 10-day waiting period starts.
On August 25, 2014, the California's 10-day waiting period for gun purchases was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California which found that "the 10-day waiting periods of Penal Code [sections 26815(a) and 27540(a)] violate the Second Amendment" as applied to members of certain classifications ...
Gun rights advocates are challenging California's 10-day waiting period for gun buyers, saying it is not legally justifiable after the Supreme Court's Bruen decision.
It also imposed a five-day waiting period on purchases until the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) was implemented in 1998. Introduced by U.S. representative Chuck Schumer of New York, the Brady Act was a landmark legislative enactment during the Clinton administration. The act was appended to the end of Section 922 of ...
Jul. 22—A federal judge on Monday refused to grant a temporary restraining order to bar enforcement of a new seven-day waiting period for purchasing firearms in New Mexico. U.S. District Judge ...
Jan. 9—CONCORD — Donna Morin of Hooksett told lawmakers that a proposed three-day waiting period to purchase any firearm would have stopped her 21-year-old son from buying one and then, 30 ...
A waiting period is the period of time between when an action is requested or mandated and when it occurs. [1]In the United States, the term is commonly used in reference to gun control, abortion and marriage licences, as some U.S. states require a person to wait for a set number of days after buying or reserving a firearm from a dealer before actually taking possession of it, a woman waiting ...
House Bill 129, which would put a seven-day waiting period on gun sales in New Mexico, passed the Senate on a 23-18 vote Saturday evening, with four Democrats joining the Republicans to oppose it.