Supreme Court denies challenge to California gun waiting period
February 21, 2018 By Andrew Chung 1 Comment
In a blow to gun rights activists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to California's 10-day waiting period for firearms purchases that is intended to guard against impulsive violence and suicides.
The court's action underscored its continued reluctance to step into a national debate over gun control roiled by a series of mass shootings including one at a Florida school last week. One of the court's staunchest conservatives, Justice Clarence Thomas, dissented from the decision to reject the case and accused his colleagues of showing contempt toward constitutional protections for gun rights.
The justices also declined to take up a separate gun case involving a National Rifle Association challenge to California's refusal to lower fees on firearms sales and instead use some of the fee money to track down weapons owned illegally.
The gun rights groups and individual gun owners who challenged the waiting period had argued that it violated their right to keep and bear arms under the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. The challengers did not seek to invalidate the waiting period for everyone, just those who already owned guns and passed a background check. …
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Robert Wolfe says
Whatever happened to the United States Constitution's second Amendment? Where did the Bill of Rights go? Do the justices of the supreme court take an oath of office to "preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States?"