No waiting period for getting guns

PORTLAND, Maine — A group of gun owners, stores and firearms groups won an injunction against the attorney general of Maine, who may not enforce a state law mandating a 72-hour waiting period between the moment a buyer purchases a gun until the moment the seller may deliver that firearm to the purchaser. The law is intended to keep violent people from impulsively buying a gun to hurt themselves or others, but the court says the Second Amendment does not support an interpretation that it only serves to protect the right to keep and bear arms, but not to acquire them.