Florida just settled a Second Amendment case that quietly rewrites how waiting periods have to work — and the mechanism matters as much as the outcome.

"Every government office, including mine, exists to protect your God-given rights as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. That's why we're settling a landmark federal case that declares Florida's 3-day firearm purchase waiting period unconstitutional under the Second Amendment."
— Florida AG James Uthmeier, June 5, 2026

When the defendant's own AG is saying the law can't survive Bruen scrutiny, there's no point dragging it to trial. The state read the room and took the exit. That's not spin — that's a clean legal signal to every other state with an arbitrary delay on the books.

The mechanics here are worth paying attention to. NICS clears in hours on most transfers. If the background check comes back clean and a dealer still has to sit on your firearm for three days, that delay isn't about vetting anymore — it's about inconvenience as policy. Post-Bruen, that doesn't hold up when you can't point to a historical tradition for it.

California, Hawaii, and Illinois are the obvious next targets. Litigants in those states now have a settlement, a legal framework, and a state AG's own words on the record. The attorneys who brought Dunn v. Glass basically handed them a template.

For those of us who've stood at an LGS counter watching a same-day NICS approval turn into a "come back Thursday" conversation — has your state's waiting period ever actually affected a purchase you were making, and do you think it changed anything about that transaction?

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