A CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: California’s Firearms Waiting Period Deemed Unconstitutional. “California’s 10-day waiting period for gun purchases was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge this morning in a significant victory for Second Amendment civil rights. The laws were challenged by California gun owners Jeffrey Silvester and Brandon Combs, as well as two gun rights groups, The Calguns Foundation and Second Amendment Foundation. In the decision released this morning, Federal Eastern District of California Senior Judge Anthony W. Ishii, appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton, found that ‘the 10-day waiting periods of Penal Code [sections 26815(a) and 27540(a)] violate the Second Amendment’ as applied to members of certain classifications, like Silvester and Combs, and ‘burdens the Second Amendment rights of the Plaintiffs.'”