10 day waiting period, or 11 day?

[GunnerMichael]

[lazyworm]

Legally, 10 x 24 hours period. At the same time store policy is store policy. I would not use that FFL again.

[high_revs]

if you like the ffl service, no big deal. i used a ffl where we abide by legal but also by their store hours. 10day day is after hours (they close early saturday), then next business day. but if it falls in same day and w/in biz hours, then can pick up.

[plumbum]

Some places start your 10 day wait the next day out of an abundance of caution. From what I’ve heard from FFL’s cases where employees may release a firearm an hour or even minutes early has resulted in violations.

[Win231]

Almost every shop I've purchased from pulls the same crap - until I ask for the manager & explain the law to him. After that, they've always released the gun to me after 240 hours. The only store that put the time on the receipt & reminded me that if I wanted to pick up the gun on the 10th day, I'd have to come in past that time was "Greta's Guns."

One idiot at Big 5 insisted that I had to wait until the 11th day. After I said, "Fine, I'll buy it somewhere else & I want a refund, including the DROS fees." He then released it.

[tuna quesadilla]

Is it Big 5? I know they have done that to me on one occasion.

You're right that the waiting period is ten 24-hour periods or 240 hours, but some stores do go full retard and enforce their own additional waiting period. There's not really anything you can do, other than taking your business elsewhere in the future, and naming them publicly so we know where not to shop.

[Garv]

26815. No firearm shall be delivered:

(a) Within 10 days of the application to purchase, or, after notice by the department pursuant to Section 28220, within 10 days of the submission to the department of any correction to the application, or within 10 days of the submission to the department of any fee required pursuant to Section 28225, whichever is later

[KSH]

The earliest pickup time is printed on the paper, how is this a question.

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[mikeyr]

some stores are that way, my local LGS tells you 11 days and writes the date on the DROS paper, but if you walk in AFTER the time printed on the DROS, he will release on the 10th day, he told me he made it 11 days because people were always coming in early on the 10th day and they would go away pissed off without their gun. So 11 it is, unless you follow the law and the printed time on the DROS paper work.

Turner's however, is 11 days no matter what I found out.

[boopiejones]

It says the exact day and time of pickup on the top left corner of the paperwork they print out when they process the dros. Unless that day falls on a day they are closed, they should release the gun to you.

I’ve had the exact opposite happen with my old ffl who has since retired. Around the holidays, he was extremely busy and told everyone to pick up their guns exactly ten 24 hour periods after dros. When I walked in on the 10th day, the guy who did dros before me was walking out the door with his gun and the guy that did dros after me was sitting on the couch staring at his watch, waiting for his 10 days to expire. Kevin was very efficient. Very cranky too. But nothing a case of diet Dr Pepper couldn’t cure. Lol

[CSACANNONEER]

Of course the shop can legally have a store policy and adhere to it. When you purchased the firearm, you knew (or should have known) the store's policy. If you didn't, you only have one person to blame. BTW, it's legally yours as soon as you purchased it but, you can't legally take possession of it until the transfer is completed. I have a friend who has been waiting several YEARS to pick up a firearm that he purchased. For some stupid reason, the DOJ won't approve the transfer because, he was detained (not cited or arrested) in the 70's and the DOJ wants proof of the non existent charges being dropped.

[Barbarosa]

Turner's however, is 11 days no matter what I found out.

Just DROSed a new gun at Turners; picked it up in ten days - no questions asked.

I know they used to be 11 days but I guess they changed.

[KSH]

I've bought a handful at turners. 10 days.

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[Yodaman]

[Cokebottle]

The DROS software will not allow release even one second early.
If the time has passed the time printed on the DROS, the system will allow it to be released.
It's not 1995 anymore
Unfortunately, the DROS system does go down frequently, and when that happens, no transactions can be processed.
Purchases can be made, but the dealer can't process the transaction until the system comes back up, which means that the buyer MAY have to wait an extra day if the dealer was not able to transmit until after closing or the next morning.
But these extreme cases are uncommon.

Policies that include an 11-day wait are generally in place because of customers that come in 2 hours early and make a scene. When I bought my Shield at GunSlingers, they put the 11th day on my receipt (and didn't give me a copy of my DROS), but I walked in at 10-days and 2-hours and they released without question. I didn't even think about it... it was after I got home and was filing the paperwork into my document safe that I noticed my pickup date was the next day.