On November 12, 2024, a lawsuit was filed challenging the 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases which Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law in August.
A 10-day waiting period for all gun purchases in Washington state went into effect January 1, 2024.
A coalition of gun rights groups filed a lawsuit against California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases Tuesday, claiming that the state-imposed delay “isn’t analogous to any constitutionally relevant history” and therefore cannot survive the Bruen (2022) test.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is pushing legislation that will require a 7-day waiting period for semiautomatic handgun and rifle sales.
Abortion giants Planned Parenthood and NARAL expressed pride and gratitude to the new Democrat majority in Virginia who approved bills in the House and Senate to roll back abortion restrictions this week.
New York lawmakers are weighing a 30-day waiting period for background checks on all firearm sales.
Florida’s red flag law and waiting period for gun purchases failed to stop the horrendous massacre at SunTrust Bank in Sebring, Florida, on Wednesday.
Washington ballot initiative I-1639 puts a 10-day waiting period on AR-15 purchases and raises the minimum age for AR-15 purchases to 21.
Americans support requiring every gun purchaser to pass the same background check that the Las Vegas attacker passed to get his guns.
On December 14, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that California’s ten-day waiting period on gun purchases is constitutional.
Hillary Clinton responded to Monday’s Senate defeat of expanded background checks and other gun controls by emailing out the names of the 49 people killed in the Pulse Orlando terror attack.
Attorney General Kamala Harris is fighting a 2014 court ruling that declared California’s ten-day waiting period for gun purchases unconstitutional.
On June 24 Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) signed a bill allowing off-duty law enforcement to carry concealed guns into schools and a second bill abolishing the 48-hour waiting period for firearm purchases.
Republican lawmakers passed a bill to do away with the 48-hour waiting period on gun purchases in Wisconsin, and Gov. Scott Walker is expected to sign it.
With the Wisconsin GOP pushing to rescind the two-day wait on handgun purchases in that state, Politifact confirms there is “no statistical evidence” that the waiting period decreases gun violence.
