No specific waiting period to buy the gun itself, but background checks etc before you are allowed a handgun permit easily takes 6 months if you're lucky. A year is not outside the realm of reasonable expectation here
Anarcho-tyranny. NY really doesn't want you to have guns so they will drag their feet every step of the way.
Edit: The real time-consumer is that NY sends people out to interview your friends/family you use as references on your permit application. Ostensibly to make sure you're not crazy or unqualified to own a weapon. Maybe this goes away as the court ruling strikes down May-Issue entirely and forces every state to be Shall-Issue in the context of CC, so I don't see why it wouldn't also be applied to ownership
Some counties are better than others, but in any of the ones housing the big cities (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, NYC ofc) you'll have to wait a long time
Serialization is an infringement, FFLs are an infringement, NFA 'tax' stamps are an infringement, the automatic registry is an infringement, and its closure a double infringement.
They just do everything to discourage you from getting it. They could do it all in an afternoon while you waited for the most part. But NY especially NYC tries to dig up anything on you to deny you.
Then in NYC they make it even harder because you can't just go buy a gun. You have to get a purchase authorization which takes 3 to 6 months to process. Then you have 30 days to buy a gun, if you don't buy it in 30 days the authorization expires. After you buy the gun then you have to take it to one specific place for NYPD to inspect the gun because they don't trust the FFLs.
There's an FBI background check required for any gun purchase from any federally licensed dealer.
During periods of low sales volumes its usually 10 minutes - 2 hours. depending on if your name is popular or not. Archimedes Link Usoro will have their background check come back a lot faster than John Smith
The last Gun i bought, during the 2020 "summer of love" the background check took 3 weeks. I bought one in 2008 at a gun show and the dealer got an answer back with in a few minutes. He called it in.
Now some states and or cities have a waiting period on top of that. sometimes it depends what you're buying. bolt action riffles versus a hand gun or modern sporting riffle.
Nevada has no waiting period. California has a 10 day waiting period. I think (I could be wrong) you have to pass your background check before you can pay for the gun. and after you pay the waiting period starts.
My guess is that the national standard would be upheld as reasonable, delayed for as long as it takes to receive a "proceed", or three days, whichever is shorter.
The last Gun i bought, during the 2020 "summer of love" the background check took 3 weeks.
What state was this? I was under the impression that if a state uses the federal rules only without their own, after three days of "pending", the store may proceed with the sale.
No specific waiting period to buy the gun itself, but background checks etc before you are allowed a handgun permit easily takes 6 months if you're lucky. A year is not outside the realm of reasonable expectation here
That is crazy, I thought these background checks were basically instantaneous.
How come states like Texas can do them instantaneously? Or is just a criminal background check different from the NY style.
Anarcho-tyranny. NY really doesn't want you to have guns so they will drag their feet every step of the way.
Edit: The real time-consumer is that NY sends people out to interview your friends/family you use as references on your permit application. Ostensibly to make sure you're not crazy or unqualified to own a weapon. Maybe this goes away as the court ruling strikes down May-Issue entirely and forces every state to be Shall-Issue in the context of CC, so I don't see why it wouldn't also be applied to ownership
Some counties are better than others, but in any of the ones housing the big cities (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, NYC ofc) you'll have to wait a long time
Ridiculous levels of infringement. The founding fathers are rolling in their graves.
Serialization is an infringement, FFLs are an infringement, NFA 'tax' stamps are an infringement, the automatic registry is an infringement, and its closure a double infringement.
It all needs to be struck down.
They just do everything to discourage you from getting it. They could do it all in an afternoon while you waited for the most part. But NY especially NYC tries to dig up anything on you to deny you.
Then in NYC they make it even harder because you can't just go buy a gun. You have to get a purchase authorization which takes 3 to 6 months to process. Then you have 30 days to buy a gun, if you don't buy it in 30 days the authorization expires. After you buy the gun then you have to take it to one specific place for NYPD to inspect the gun because they don't trust the FFLs.
There's an FBI background check required for any gun purchase from any federally licensed dealer. During periods of low sales volumes its usually 10 minutes - 2 hours. depending on if your name is popular or not. Archimedes Link Usoro will have their background check come back a lot faster than John Smith The last Gun i bought, during the 2020 "summer of love" the background check took 3 weeks. I bought one in 2008 at a gun show and the dealer got an answer back with in a few minutes. He called it in.
Now some states and or cities have a waiting period on top of that. sometimes it depends what you're buying. bolt action riffles versus a hand gun or modern sporting riffle.
Nevada has no waiting period. California has a 10 day waiting period. I think (I could be wrong) you have to pass your background check before you can pay for the gun. and after you pay the waiting period starts.
I bought my first gun during the summer of love -- on a saturday morning it (edit: the background check) took about 5 minutes.
Perhaps being deep in red middle america played a part.
I anticipate waiting periods will go the way of the dodo. No basis in history and tradition at the time the 2nd Amendment was drafted.
It's going to be a great few years as gun control regulations across the country fall.
My guess is that the national standard would be upheld as reasonable, delayed for as long as it takes to receive a "proceed", or three days, whichever is shorter.
What state was this? I was under the impression that if a state uses the federal rules only without their own, after three days of "pending", the store may proceed with the sale.
If they submitted an electronic background check request, it could've been processed almost instantaneously.
They are. It's just when they decide to getting around to doing them/releasing the instant check.