Rifle purchase 18-21 year olds

[Acs]

Is there a gun law in Maryland that requires a person under 21 purchasing a rifle wait 4 days? My son purchased one Tuesday and he was told he couldn’t pick up until Saturday. My sons 19 and he purchased a Hbar AR

 

[mauser58]

Its a regulated firearm I believe so has a waiting period for background checks.

 

[Acs]

I could be wrong but I thought Maryland doesn’t regulate rifles. They are either banned or they are not regulated

 

[308Scout]

Its a regulated firearm I believe so has a waiting period for background checks.

MD Legal ARs are not regulated firearms. Normal long gun - cash and carry.

 

[mauser58]

MD Legal ARs are not regulated firearms. Normal long gun - cash and carry.

Yes but not all AR15,s are cash and carry. Some brands are regulated in Maryland

 

[rseymorejr]

Yes but not all AR15,s are cash and carry. Some brands are regulated in Maryland

Not anymore. HBAR's are good to go. Just a NICS check is all you need. Anything is is banned.

 

[Squaregrouper]

Yes but not all AR15,s are cash and carry. Some brands are regulated in Maryland

This has been incorrect since 10/1/2013- It has been over 10yrs since that changed.
They are either cash and carry (with a background check) or banned.

 

[mauser58]

Not anymore. HBAR's are good to go. Just a NICS check is all you need. Anything is is banned.

Thats good to know. Thanks

 

[rseymorejr]

Thats good to know. Thanks

You may have been thinking of stripped lowers, they are regulated, 77R and 7 day wait.

 

[Acs]

further research I think he probably got the delay on the BC

 

[rseymorejr]

further research I think he probably got the delay on the BC

That used to happen to me all the time. I got a UPIN and since then I get approved in minutes instead of a couple hours or the next day.

 

[madmantrapper]

What is a BC?

 

[308Scout]

What is a BC?

Background Check?

 

[FFBWMD]

New Federal law that went into effect last year, any persons aged 18-20yr's is Automatically put on hold for up to 10 Business days while the NICS system further investigates the background check. This isn't a MD thing or a Dealer thing it is now federal regulated on background checks. Also does not matter whether 12ga shotgun, .22 rifle or AR-15HB all are treated the same type of long gun.

 

[dblas]

Its a regulated firearm I believe so has a waiting period for background checks.

It is NOT a regulated firearm, as there are no longer any long guns or shotguns that are "regulated" since Oct 1, 2013.

 

[dblas]

Yes but not all AR15,s are cash and carry. Some brands are regulated in Maryland

NO, they are NOT, AR15s are either banned, or cash and carry, there is no waiting period for ANY AR15 that is cash and carry in Maryland.

 

[dblas]

Is there a gun law in Maryland that requires a person under 21 purchasing a rifle wait 4 days? My son purchased one Tuesday and he was told he couldn’t pick up until Saturday. My sons 19 and he purchased a Hbar AR

He got held up in the new federal regulation that 18-20 year olds get held for up to 10 days while a further NICS check is performed at the federal level.

 

[mauser58]

You may have been thinking of stripped lowers, they are regulated, 77R and 7 day wait.

Yes you are correct. I bought three stripped lowers from a local gun shop and had a waiting period. That is why I thought there was a period for fully assembled rifles.

 

[BurkeM]

Is there a gun law in Maryland that requires a person under 21 purchasing a rifle wait 4 days?

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12154

On June 25, 2022, President Biden signed into law the
Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA; P.L. 117-159),
which includes several firearms-related sections. Section
12001 addresses juvenile access to firearms by
• clarifying that the prohibition on transferring a firearm
to a disqualified individual applies to juveniles (18
U.S.C. §922(d)); and
• expanding background check procedures to screen
persons 18 to 21 years of age for disqualifying juvenile
justice or mental health records (18 U.S.C. §922(t)).
To implement these measures, the law required upgrades to
the background check system established by the Brady
Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act, 34 U.S.C.
§40901, P.L. 103-159). Prior to P.L. 117-159, it does not
appear that such records were routinely queried as part of a
federal firearms background check. Prohibited firearm
transfers, background checks, and background check
system requirements under federal law, as well as the
amendments made by P.L. 117-159, are described below.

P.L. 117-159 amended Section 103 of the Brady Act to
require the Attorney General to upgrade NICS with the
capacity to contact immediately, for purposes of 18 U.S.C.
§922(d), possible sources of disqualifying juvenile records
for persons under 21 years old in the jurisdiction where they
reside, including state, tribal, or territorial repositories of
criminal history, records, juvenile justice information,
and/or mental health adjudication records, as well as local
law enforcement agencies

 

[Acs]

He got held up in the new federal regulation that 18-20 year olds get held for up to 10 days while a further NICS check is performed at the federal level.

Yep we went today and they said we have to wait 10 days