can someone explain the california 10 day handgun wait to me?
 

i called my FFL guy. i asked him (kinda timidly actually) , "am i all clear?"

he said he found out on the very first day that i was a certified law abiding citizen.

what?!! then what are the other 9 days for?

i get the new hardware on saturday! i also think my brother got me some SWAT approved goodies..my grapevine is very loose lipped..shhh. i dont tell my mom anything.

It is for making the process difficult thus disuading you from starting the process...

They figure if you still want to kill the SOB after 10 days, might as well do it.

serious? this seems like a viable explaination. no "passionate" gun purchases.

"Cooling off" period.

I think the rationale is to let tempers cool - no "Hey Joe" moments - getting mad, going to the gun store, and blowing her away that day. Secondarily to allow time for background checking, perhaps the checks used to take longer.

I'm not convinced the waiting period has much benefit. Then again, I'm also not able to think of any time I actually needed to have a handgun within 10 days or else. So basically I don't care (or didn't when I lived in CA).

I always looked at it as giving you the time to adequately stalk your intended victim, get very clear about his/her habits and better plan the exact right time/place to take them out, how and where to dispose of the body and make your getaway to Mexico.

Great idea!

Yeah, wouldn't want to do anything rash.

+1
They're trying to mitigate the, "Hold my beer! I'm gonna buy me a gun and shoot that b***h" scenario.

Not without sending this thread straight to PARF!

BTW, I could walk into big 5 sporting goods and buy a 12 gauge shotgun and walk out with it 2 minutes later and blow a big hole in sumbudy, so the cool off thing is just a BS excuse for the anti-gun lobby.
They're the guys over there, on the left.

Normally TX is 10-15 minute wait while they check.

My last FFL transfer the guy tells me it got flagged and to call in a few days.

If they don't hear back in 5 then I can come get it.

He said it can happen when you have a common name or it may have been that I was not born state side.

If you have a CHL, there is no check...

Gives you a little time to plan?:D

They already did the check to give CHL.

This totally makes sense, because nobody ever used anything but a handgun to commit murder

The the Islamic terrorist in Santa Barbara that drove around in an SUV running people down...

They wana keep the school kids in Stockton safe.

Oh Tabdullah, the desert sun of Vegas has addled your mind. That guy in Stockton bought all his stuff in Oregon.

That 10 day waiting period has eliminated any criminals purchasing guns too.

Ahhh the people at the McDonalds in San Diego?

I thought you were talking about the guy who shot up the school in Stockton, because you said school kids in Stockton, my mistake.

The guy who killed 2 dozen in the SD McD's massacre was a welder who was despondent because he was turned down for a job. Friend of mine was the guy who turned him down.

I'm OK with the 10 day wait.....On your first gun. Now on your second gun it's just goofy.

He didn't like Mondays.
no wait, that was a girl shooting kids at an elementary school in san Diego. Sumthin in the water?

The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna go to school today
She’s gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be show-ow-ow-ow-own?

Tell me why
I don’t like Mondays
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The Telex machine is kept so clean
And it types to a waiting world
And mother feels so shocked
Father’s world is rocked
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain’t that peachy keen
Now that ain’t so neat to admit defeat
They can see no reasons
'Cuz there are no reasons
What reasons do you need?
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I don’t like Mondays
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The whole day down, down, down, shoot it all down

And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with the toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die
And then the bullhorn crackles
And the captain tackles
(With the problems of the how's and why's)
And he can see no reasons
'Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die, die?
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10 day waiting period for all firearms purchases in CA, not just handguns.

Frequently Asked Questions - Public - Bureau of Firearms - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General

But as said before, it's pointless after you already own a gun. But, how would they verify you're already a gun owner without registering every gun purchased and making that registration available to all FFLs in the state?

I guess that would make the waiting period the lesser of two evils.

Didn't he use an AR-15? I thought that was the reason for the 10 round magazine.

I would buy the "Coolong Off" thing if it was only for your first gun. If you aready own a gun, what logic is there to make you wait before buying another?

And this would almost be amusing, if it wasn't so stupid: I have a C&R FFL. I can order a rifle from any number of distributors and have it shipped directly to my house. But if I went to buy the same rifle at Big 5, I would have to wait 10 days.

Haven't y'all seen the Simpsons episode where Homer wants a gun and is informed that he has to wait however many days:

"Ooh, but I'm mad now!"

I love that line......

I had an English guy visiting me about 5 years ago. I took him out to the range and he fired a gun for the first time. I then took him to a local sporting goods store. We looked over a bunch of things. He asked how hard it was to buy one? I put down a credit card and proceeded to purchase one. Walked out 10-15 minutes later and we went back to the range and broke it in...

Ok, I'll play this game. Buy a gun. Wait ten days, get the gun. So what is the problem here? Lets move on to something really important.

Beyond the 10 day wait thing, as I recall there is also a no more than 1 purchase every 30 days limit. (That one may only pertain to handguns, but it is silly regardless.)

These rules cannot possibly have a benefit to society or any impact on true criminal sorts. All I can figure is they exist to penalize and discourage citizens, dealers and manufacturers.

But then we are attempting to apply actual logic to politicians' actions that defy normal logic.

It is not a "problem" for most of us. It is an infraction of our freedom and an unnecessary and illogical hassle imposed on us by the gub'mint. As far as I know, we never got an opportunity to vote on this nonsense either.

More absolute nonsense legislation. You can buy a friggen duffel bag full of 10rd mags but you can't buy one 15rd mag. Gee, that makes sense.

The way this BS started was with the Brady Law in 1994. It contained a federal five day wait, but also set up the National Instant Check System (NICS). The provision there was that once a state had the NICS online, they no longer had to abide by the five day wait. VA was the first state to have the NICS up and running and, IIRC, it was even before the five day federal wait went into effect. So VA never had to go by the federal waiting period. Of course, that outraged some of the anti's in the northern VA suburbs, so Arlington and Fairfax Counties and Alexandria City passed their own local waiting periods. This, of course, just drove business to Prince William and other counties with no waits and where buying a gun was cash and carry. VA later passed a state preemption law that did away with this BS. I've never lived anywhere that had a wait since then, so I imagine those places that still have them passed them around the time the federal law was to sunset about six yrs. ago.

In AZ they don't even have to runs a NICS check anymore if you have a CCW. You just hand them your license for them to verify the info you put on the 4473 and you walk out with the gun. If you don't have a CCW, it might take as long as 15 min. before you can leave and begin your crime spree. I bought a SIG at Cabela's and it was almost as fast as buying a pack of cigarettes.

Let's see how that works for other fundamental rights.

Looks like you are in Indiana. So would you be OK with waiting 10 days in Gary if you wanted to go to Chicago?

California's waiting period predates Brady by a LONG time:

Ah, so the KA waiting period was the inspiration for the federal one. As goes KA, so goes the nation.

There were so many good quotes from that episode, they don't make em like that anymore. Such as "I don't have to be careful.... I have a gun."

I know the gov't is full of BS regulations, I'm just trying to make a funny. I wonder if Chicago has had a big decrease in deaths by guns since the ban. Anyone know?

LOL! And pretty much true...

I'm sure this is urban legend...

Quote from a customer at a gun store during the LA riots, "What do you mean I have to wait 10 days?!?! Isn't this America?"

A waiting period has never stopped any crime. Anyone who is mad enough to shoot someone will certainly get that mad again once they have the gun. And why would anyone bother submitting to a background check and buy a gun in a store, which they plan to use in a crime unless they also planned to die in the attack? I don't really mind the background checks, as they sometimes weed out the extremely stupid criminals, but it's folly to think they prevent anyone from getting a gun who really wants one.