The five-day waiting period for buying a handgun, one of the central elements of the Brady Act, won't be a reality until Feb. 28, and even then it won't be a huge thorn in honest gun buyers' sides. But some see it as a step toward greater restrictions, said Eastman - "bans on semiautomatics, 10,000-percent taxes on ammunition, restrictions on the number of guns you can own . . . It's ludicrous what they're proposing."
