My brother lives in Broward County and purchased a rifle online last week.  It arrived to the FFL today and he's being told he can't take it home for 5 days.



Can anyone shed some light on this?  The FFL didn't mention this at all until now and he hasn't purchased a gun in FL before.



Thanks!

broward, palm beach, and dade county all have hold periods if you don't have a concealed carry license

Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and several others have a 5 business day waiting period on any firearm. Other counties have no waiting period on long arms. Handguns, statewide wait 3-5 days. Been like that for a long time. As montioned above, does not apply to CCW holders.

Thanks for the replies, I just found the relevant Broward County code.  My brother had thought, there was an exemption for long guns as they're exempted on the State level.  There's some ambiguity given the sale did not take place in Broward county given it was an online purchase, but I doubt he or the FFL will have any success arguing that out right now.
Since this was an online purchase, does anyone know if the clock started from when he bought it or from when the FFL received it?



 

One of my employees did that, the clock started when he ordered it, this in Palm Beach county.  Your brother might need to prove when he ordered it.

Same here, my table top FFL would count from date it was invoiced.

Thanks guys! I passed all this on to him, and his FFL is in agreement.

My brother's rather annoyed the FFL didn't being this up before as he could've had it sent to a different location outside of Broward...  Live & learn I suppose; now he has incentive to get his CCW!

I don't have my CCW atm, so I have to wait on handgun purchases, but nothing else.

I believe the wait time is per county.  FL is only a 3 day wait on handgun purchases, and each county can impose a wait of however many days for whatever they want.

Here there is no wait on anything other than handguns.

I just moved to where I currently am, and did not wish to drive the 40 minutes to my old FFL, so I choose to use someone I've never used before.  Ordered a lower and had it come in a week ago.  Idiots made me wait 3 days.  Told them they were wrong, and hes all like "Naw, this is considered a pistol, because it can be made into a pistol."  Im like....what's the mark say?  What do you put on the 4473?  "Other."  Exactly.  Didnt want to argue with them, they're idiots.

I just won't use them again.  Made a few calls, found one right around the corner from the house that actually knows the laws and procedures.

So stupid.  

Definitely worth getting your license and not just for transfers. In this day and age, any legally allowed citizen should have one but it stinks that we need one. I am surprised about the wait as well and didn't know some South Florida counties had their own laws for that.

Hillsborough and I believe Pinellas also have a wait for long guns without a CCW. I'd assume all the liberal bastions have a similar ordinance.