California limits most buyers to three firearms cumulatively in any 30-day period, tracked through DROS (PC 27535, amended by Stats. 2025, ch. 570; operative April 1, 2026). Some exemptions apply. The older one-handgun-a-month rule was enjoined in Nguyen v. Bonta (9th Cir. No. 24-2036, affirmed June 20, 2025) and has since been superseded by the amended statute. This is a separate rule from the 10-day waiting period and doesn’t change the hold.
Sources
- The full detail: What DROS actually does
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