Gun rights advocates renew legal fight over California's 10-day wait for firearm buyers

Renewing a legal battle that some had considered settled, gun rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit this week challenging a California law that places a 10-day waiting period on most firearm purchases.

The law, which requires people to wait the prescribed "cooling off" period even if they've passed a more immediate background check, is aimed in part at deterring people from rushing to harm themselves or others with newly purchased weapons during periods of sudden distress or anger.

Gun control advocates and state officials say the law reduces gun which in 2018 declined to hear an appeal to a lower court decision upholding it.