In 2023, Washington enacted a 10 day waiting period on the sales and transfers of all firearms.¹ The law becomes effective on January 1, 2024. Previously, the law had only applied to the sale of semiautomatic assault weapons.

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1. See Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 9.41.092.[↩]