Pasadena Police Chief suspends waiting period waivers for officers

By Brian Seay

Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez announced Thursday his department will suspend the issuance of waiting period waivers for officers looking to purchase firearms.
Sanchez says he wants to thoroughly review the department’s practices, according to the Pasadena Star-News.
There’s a 10-day waiting period for gun purchases in California. Last week, it was reported that Sanchez signed off on at least four waivers for Lt. Vasken Gourdikian, who had 57 guns seized from his home earlier this year. Several of those guns were ‘off-roster’ – weapons available almost exclusively to law enforcement.
In California, there’s a roster of handguns that residents can legally buy. If you’re a police officer, however, you can buy guns that aren’t on that roster — thus ‘off-roster’ guns. Cops can sell these weapons to civilians as long as they aren’t trying to turn a profit. They’d need a Federal Firearms License to do that. Gourdikian didn’t have one of those.
But he did get seven total waivers from the Pasadena Police Department so that he could bypass the 10-day waiting period. Five guns associated with those waivers were recovered during the federal raid in February, but the whereabouts of two other guns are unknown. Six of the waivers were for

Source: Guns.com