Groups pile on in Supreme Court challenge to California’s 10-day waiting period

By Chris Eger

Even if they already own a gun, Californians continue to have to wait 10 days to buy additional firearms, a matter now before the Supreme Court. (Photo: Jebb Harris/The Orange County Register/AP)
Several Second Amendment groups are joining a pair of California gun advocates in taking the challenge to the state’s mandatory waiting period to the nation’s high court.
The groups have filed three different friend of the court briefs this month encouraging the Supreme Court to grant review and overturn a ruling issued by the U.S. 9th Circuit last year which upheld the state’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases.
The case involves plaintiffs Jeff Silvester and Brandon Combs, and is supported by the Calguns Foundation, of which Combs is the executive director, and Second Amendment Foundation. They argue the mandatory wait— if applied to those who already lawfully possessed a firearm registered in the state’s Automated Firearms System or had a concealed carry permit — is a violation of the Second Amendment.
The men originally filed suit against the state in 2011, arguing that California’s waiting period and the 18 exemptions to it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The state countered the elapsed time was a viable means

Source: Guns.com