{"id":299390,"date":"2026-06-07T20:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299390\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:07:19","slug":"florida-moves-to-end-3-day-gun-purchase-waiting-period-amid-nra-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299390\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida moves to end 3-day gun purchase waiting period amid NRA lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida moves to end 3-day gun purchase waiting period amid NRA lawsuit<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Florida is moving to end the mandatory 3-day waiting period for gun purchases, citing unconstitutionality in response to a lawsuit.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Attorney General James Uthmeier said the state is settling an NRA lawsuit that argued the waiting period is unconstitutional.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">&#8220;Every government office, including mine, exists to protect your God-given rights as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,&#8221; Uthmeier said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGJamesUthmeier\/status\/2062895064431374581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X<\/a> commenting on the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Court records show the state declined to defend the rule and is instead pushing for the court to rule it unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida moves to end 3-day gun purchase waiting period amid NRA lawsuit Florida is moving to end the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,123480,123479,121031,88176],"class_list":["post-299390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-streams","tag-us-privacy-notice-term","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wbbh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}