Firearm Purchase Waiting Periods
The mandatory seven day wait on handgun purchases imposed by the PDRofMD has inspired some Dems. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve plunked down eight bills for a firearm purchase, and have impulse-robbed a Dollar Store on the way home. Because I haven’t.
David sends.
Gun waiting periods rare in US states but more may be coming
LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Not long before the deadly Atlanta-area shootings spread fear and anger through Asian American communities nationwide, police say the attacker made a legal purchase: a 9 mm handgun.
Within hours, they say, he had killed eight people, seven of them women and six of Asian descent, in a rampage targeting massage businesses.
If Georgia had required him to wait before getting a gun, lawmakers and advocates say, he might not have acted on his impulse.
“It’s really quick. You walk in, fill out the paperwork, get your background check and walk out with a gun,” said Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “If you’re in a state of crisis, personal crisis, you can do a lot of harm fairly quickly.”
The purchase was a normal transaction at Big Woods Goods, a shop north of Atlanta that complies with federal background check laws and is cooperating with police, said Matt Kilgo, a lawyer for the store.
“There’s no indication there’s anything improper,” he said.
The vast majority of states are like Georgia, allowing buyers to walk out of a store with a firearm after a background check that sometimes can take minutes. Waiting periods are required in just 10 states and the District of Columbia, although several states are considering legislation this year to impose them.
This metering of rights is a pretty typical first start at chipping away at the Second Amendment. They’re shamelessly playing the race card, and anyone using Giffords Center stats has an agenda and is suspect. Read the entire article here: AP Wire
Thanks, David.
Category: "Teh Stoopid", Guest Post, Gun Grabbing Fascists
Over the last year, how many millions of people purchased firearms (some 7 million? for the first time) and didn’t immediately or later use their firearm in a felonious manner to kill innocent people?
Yarp.
If guns were the problem, we’d all be dead by now.
We need more Common Sense People Control Laws. /s/
Y’all may recall that I made a comment the other day about the crazy white boy that shot up the innocents at the Black Folks Church really kicked off the “destroy all things Confederate. I also predicted that having a crazy white boy shoot up a bunch of innocent Asians was gonna open up the call for more gunz control laws.
And here we are.
Definitely. They outnumber us.
No, d-rats would all be dead if we were the problem…
NICS waiting periods are now sometimes SEVERAL HOURS because of record gun sales in advance of the Dims’ epic gun grabbing bill, now going to Schumer’s Senate. This is usually the case if you’re fortunate enough to (a) find a gun show, and (b) find an affordable gun that you buy.
Miss Trump yet?
How many stimulus checks will be used to buy guns?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Just waiting on that Arizona ID!
Yeah, I’m sure a week would’ve made a huge difference for the mentally-defective asshole who had made up his mind to murder people for quite possibly months. My sarcasm should be obvious.
I can, however, think of a category of person for whom it will make a huge difference: a woman trying to get out of a physically abusive relationship. No waiting period = she is equipped to defend herself. Seven days = she is found dead in her home when the cops finally get around to investigating the neighbors’ noise complaint, because her assbag ex didn’t give a rat’s ass about that restraining order. Seems to me these fascist jerkoffs want more women to suffer and die.
TOW, those fascist jerkoffs don’t give a rat’s adz about victims. (I know you know that)
It is all about consolidating power over others. Everything else is a sham.
So again, lefties, explain how a waiting period would stop this?
CA already has a 10-day wait (even for cops!) and how is that working out for them?
Shitty. One of the long list of reasons I’m leaving.
I seriously doubt any waiting period will or has deterred anyone from committing premeditated murder. Now if they make the waiting period about 20 years, it might prevent a few gun crimes. But determined pre-meditated murderers will just use some other means.
Obviously, this cretin didn’t act on impulse. He planned this, including attacking multiple locations. And he didn’t shoot these people because the ChiCom virus came from China (which it irrefutably did). He shot anyone he saw at either location, irrespective of their race or place of origin. Anyone really think he would not have shot up a massage parlour (steam & cream) he frequented that was staffed with Eastern European women?
The only thing a ten day waiting period would have done is delayed the murder and mayhem ten days. There is no empiric evidence that waiting periods save anyone. There is evidence they prevent law abiding citizens (especially females) from acquiring a gun in time to use it defensively. However, most examples are unfortunately in cemeteries. When a female finds out her stalker ex-boyfriend is out to kill her, ten days is a long time to wait to acquire a firearm.
That nutcase did not act “on impulse”. He has been working on his squirrels for quite a while.
The ghouls want you to agree that arms are a privilege they allow as they think best.
And they think you are not going to have that privilege.
Always “the first step”, because the boot on your face is always the last step.
Strictly speaking, the *last* step is the bullet they put in the back of your skull. The boot in the face is just the point where you realize you’re screwed and can’t go back.
“Waiting periods are required in just 10 states”… bet if you google “10 states with the highest gun crime rates” or look at the home states of the “10 cities with the highest gun crime rates” you will find a helluva set of correlations, too.
I am curious how miss Robyn Thomas can say “It’s really quick. You walk in, fill out the paperwork, get your background check and walk out with a gun,” said Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
I have a CCW, I also have purchased a few weapons (which unfortunately were with me the day of my terrible boating accident) from my great Palmetto State Armory store. Even with their implementation of multiple forward facing tablet like screens at the pick up counter (thankfully no longer the same counter as those looking to examine every gun on the wall or in the case), the quickest I have ever come out of there was two hours!
Impulse buying is when you are standing in line with your purchase and decide to get a candy bar as well because you are now hungry…well maybe it is also: Why not add that SIG P365 since it is on sale to my Mossberg 930 JM Pro since I am already waiting!
They think anything under a week is too fast and easy.
Vend-o-gat machines.
Or one of those “claw” games with a box-full of oddities.
Heh.
Every time I have purchased a firearm it took about an hour just to do all the paperwork. The instant background check wasn’t instant. Sometimes they said come back tomorrow, as your file is in the cue. I don’t know where the blockage occurred. But it has never been quick and easy since they started all this background check stuff. Ask anyone in Illinois how “quick and easy” it is.
NH is quite different. Longest I’ve had to wait was about 10 minutes.
Check that. I bought a couple of guns in Kittery, Maine. By the time I drove to the transfer office in Portsmouth, the paperwork and checks were done. That took almost a half hour.
GA was always good and fast for me twenty minutes was the longest I ever had to wait there!
They’re just manufacturing racial crises now. What a time to be alive.
It finally dawned on them that their own history of racist practices against Asians (see Ivy League admissions, among others) is undermining their narrative, so they have to come up with something.
Look at WWII Japanese-American interns, and thank FDR.
Donks are the Party of slavery, segregation, and racial supremacy.
Still are. They just now call it “progressivism” or “socialism”, etc. Marx just gave them “modern” new excuses for antique sin.
In order for crypto-commie wannabe totalitarians to gain more power, they have to have multiple groups of people convinced they are oppressed. The easiest way to do that is use their race, something they have no control over, to divide them up. Of course they have to have one group to be the imaginary oppressors; I think you all know what racial group that is.
I too live in the People’s Republic of MD and have been “fortunate” enough to have the state “permit” me to carry concealed – with a license. This place is a fucking dump and I will be fucking assholes and fucking elbows out of this bitch as soon as humanly possible.
A lot of other friendly states will welcome you, Texas being one.
Y’all come!
As soon as you get the air conditioning fixed.
I finally shitcanned the PRoMD in 2012, having had more than my fill of its confiscatory taxes and arbitrary firearms regs. I knew it was time to GTFO when I came out of the Tackle Box one summer afternoon, to find a nosey state cop sticking his head in the open window of my truck.
Unfortunately, my choice of Virginia as a refuge didn’t last long, and I was forced to egress that shithole as well. Been here in Tennessee for a year, now. I think I may finally have found a safe(r) haven.
Don’t rule out Maine. Don’t need no stinkin permit to
carry concealed but if you have interaction with a LEO
eg stopped for vehicle infraction, you MUST inform them
you are armed. If you have a permit you do not have to
inform them so having a permit is recommended.
Also, people tend to be nice to each other in the northern
half of the state because everyone is armed.
Even if just to dispatch an injured animal along the road.
A firearm is a tool around here..not unlike a pocket knife.
Winter though……it keeps the riff raff out.
“Winter though……it keeps the riff raff out.”
Hah! Tell it to New Hampshire; they used to think that, too.
NH does not require you to inform.
I’m sure the queen of Colorado and his minions will be pushing this stupidity soon enough..
When I purchased handguns in Florida, I showed the person behind the counter my Concealed carry permit and walk out the shop with the gun after he makes the phone call to the ATF.
Three year waiting period– like getting a car in the Soviet Union– Democrats will want. 1000% sales tax, perhaps?
On multiple occasions D-rats have proposed outrageous taxes on guns and ammo, I’m sure they have that in their playbook.
And yet they shart bricks over “poll tax”.
If they get their way, they will call for a waiting period to purchase knives, baseball bats, cars, and anything else that can be used as a deadly weapon.
Box cutters.
Automobiles, flamethrowers, books, shoes, and hands!
Don’t forget passenger jet airplanes. Hope nobody ever comes up with a plan to combine box cutters with airplanes to kill people. Oh…wait…Seems like I remember that “…some people did something…”
Next they’ll be bawling for turn-in boxes for knives like they have in [formerly] Great Britain!
Brits are considering stick and club control now… gravity will be next.
Well I have an appointment Wednesday. And then I have to wait 7 days AFTER I go get the documents and such done to take possession. I have 2 in the office and I have to choose between the two. I’m going to take a 9mm first because the second one is a Browning Buck Mark Grey which is going to be a surprise for my son. His birthday is in a month. NOW, it’s going to be for *all* of us, BUT, it’s going to be his to generally shoot and maintain after we all get used to it. I was at the range the other day and got to hold it after I bought it.(Yes I’ve been *very* fortunate not ever *not* liking anything I’ve bought online and had transferred to my local federal Firearms Location/FFL dudes) It’s a full sized 22LR pistol. It’s like fucking *BUTTER*. I’ve rarely felt anything in my hand that felt so comfortable and enjoyable, other than a boob. Seriously. That thought was one of the first things that came to mind. And here come a flurry of amusing comments from you fuckers in 3…2…1…. 😀 😀 😀 (And unfortunately, next month, we’re going on a boating trip) One thing I brought up with AW1ED and Mason was I hope that the laws in MD are changing. There’s a group called Maryland Shall Issue® ( an all volunteer, non-partisan organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of gun owners’ rights in Maryland.) They were able to overturn the laws in D.C. and now they’re fighting the same fight in MD. The have been able to get a review on the docket of the Supreme Court in December for a date TBD. (I believe if I’m reading this correctly, they have a case docketed) with the past successes, I believe (I’m hopeful) that they laws are rolling the other direction, in this case. https://www.marylandshallissue.org/jmain/counselor-s-corner Anyway, in the meantime, look at a pretty firearm. I’m not posting links to photos of boobs because that would just start a bigger fight than arguing about gunzzzzz. 😀… Read more »
By now folks are hearing of the shooting in a Boulder supermarket.
There is remarkably little info out, other than some pictures of one person, presumably the suspect, some rough numbers, and one comment about “AR-15”.
Cynically, I sense a narrative problem. Or, perhaps, for once press and police are doing it right. STFU until facts are in
How would the press cover a Florida Spring Break bar fight over “one mask or two” between a hispanic trans anarchist gathering
(1x) and gay black communists (2x)?
The presstitutes’ heads would explode.
Clean up in aisle four.
Too soon?