Quicker So You Are Not Deader
In the case known as Ortega, et al. v. Lujan Grisham, et al, a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. District Court of Appeals has ruled 2-1 that New Mexico’s seven-day waiting period to purchase a firearm “is likely an unconstitutional burden on the Second Amendment rights of its citizens,” and has reversed a lower court ruling and remanded the case back to the district court “with instructions to enter injunctive relief consistent with this opinion.”
The decision stated, “Cooling-off periods infringe on the Second Amendment by preventing the lawful acquisition of firearms. Cooling-off periods do not fit into any historically grounded exceptions to the right to keep and bear arms, and burden conduct within the Second Amendment’s scope”.
Also emphasized was that this approach treated every citizen as dangerous simply for wanting to buy a firearm.
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Last June, a three-judge panel ruled that California’s one handgun purchase per month law failed to meet the standard set in the ‘Bruen’ decision and, therefore, the law was unconstitutional.
On August 14th, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finalized the ruling that this law is unconstitutional.
The full panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to review a lower court’s ruling that California’s one gun per month purchase limit violates the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment. That made final the June decision against the California law.
Back in 2012, a Virginia law limiting handgun purchases to one per month was repealed.
State Delegate Scott Lingamfelter said: "I think Virginians deserve effective laws, and one handgun a month has been overtaken by technology and improved background checks. Criminals don't go into gun stores, stand there in the bright light, hand over their driver's license and stand there and wait for the vendor to see if they have a criminal record. If you really want to get after gun crime, you get after people who use guns illegally. You don't punish law-abiding citizens."
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Closer to home, NY State proposed laws:
S00418 andA01774 make it a misdemeanor to procure more than one firearm during any period of 30 days.
S00362 and A01210 establish a 10 day waiting period before a firearm sale can be completed by delivery to the buyer. __________________________________________________________________
As part of the administration’s crackdown on crime in the nation’s capital, President Donald Trump streamlined the gun permitting process for honest citizens in the District of Columbia,
Trump’s “Making DC Safe and Beautiful Task Force” will allow D.C. residents to book next-day appointments to register their firearms with the Metropolitan Police Department and walk-in appointments are available. Previously, applicants had to wait up to four months for a registration appointment.
