30 day period for handguns

[Prc329]

Is the 30 day wait from dros to dros or from pick up to next dros. Say if I buy a handgun and start the dros today, can I buy a new one in 30 days or does my 30 days start after the 10 day period is up effectively making a 40 day waiting period?

[cseabass]

dros to dros

[tgriffin]

dros to dros

+1 dros to dros

[Prc329]

Thanks. Two weeks

[CeSquared]

Is the 30 day wait from dros to dros or from pick up to next dros. Say if I buy a handgun and start the dros today, can I buy a new one in 30 days or does my 30 days start after the 10 day period is up effectively making a 40 day waiting period?

Remember it is 30, 24-hour periods (days). I had my last handgun rejected by DOJ because I tried registering it 5 hours too soon. I called the state and was told it was the 30th day. When we couldn't figure out why it was rejected, the rep asked me if I had looked at my receipts. Sure enough, I bought my Walther around 3:40pm and had tried purchasing my Kimber around 10:20am on the 30th day. They rejected it, I had to pay another $30 and wait another 10 days.

[allenst65]

I have always assumed the 1 in 30 day rule followed the time definition standard as referenced by CA DOJ on their FAQ for the 10 day waiting period.

"How is the waiting period for firearm purchases calculated? - The waiting period for the purchase or transfer of a firearm is ten (10) 24-hour periods from the date and time of the submission of the DROS information to the DOJ.)"

Strange thing, in their same FAQ, they do not specifially define the 1-in-30 rule by the same standard:

"Is there a maximum number of handguns that a person may purchase? - While no limitation exist for the number of handguns that a person may own, a person is generally limited to making no more than one application to purchase a handgun within any 30 day period. Handgun transactions related to law enforcement, private party transfers, returns to owners, and other specified circumstances are exempt from the one-handgun-per-30-day restriction. (PC section 12072(a)(9))"


Can someone point to the specific CA DOJ reference that calls out one hangun per 30 days as "30 thirty (30) 24-hour periods" ??


I swear at one time I saw listed on the DOJ site that the 1-in-30 day period was defined such that the day of the DROS automatically counted as day 1, rather than with the 10 day wait where you have to wait 24 hours before day 1 'counts'. In other words if you DROS at a store closing at 9PM, then by the next calendar day (regardless of time) you were already on day 2 of your 1-in-30 purchase delay. This was in difference to the 1 day = 24 hour method in which your day 1 would only official exist at the 9PM closing that next day.


CA DOJ's site is so bogged down, I could only find this reference and I don't think it's the exact one I saw before.

http://ag.ca.gov/firearms/infobuls/9907.pdf

In computing the thirty day period, the date the DROS application is accepted for processing by DOJ shall count as the first day."


Note the important distinction. They say the actual DROS submission date shall count as the first day of the 1-in-30 day limitation, and they do not stipulate date and time. If they had used the same standard as with the 10 day waiting period, day 1 would only be counted after 24 hours had passed.

I know, I know ... just more examples of the DOJ's inconsistencies.

Come to think of it, after all this looking on their site and wading through the pc sections, I didn't see anywhere it actually, legally called out the 10 day wait as "ten (10) 24-hour periods from the date and time of the submission of the DROS information to the DOJ". I can only see this in their FAQ. How legally binding is a FAQ anyway ???