The law requires a five-day waiting period and a background check of handgun buyers.

Hardly revolutionary, it would make handgun buyers wait a week between purchase and delivery while police checked records.

The Senate bill would require a five-day waiting period while the police conduct background checks of prospective handgun buyers.

President Clinton's proposal to license all new handgun buyers is unlikely to get through Congress and would be even harder to implement around the country.

Then came the Brady bill, which mandates a waiting period for handgun buyers.

The measure would establish a seven-day period in which local police could check the backgrounds of potential handgun buyers for criminal and mental health records.

According to California law, the police have 15 days to check a would-be handgun buyer for drug use, felony convictions or mental instability.

Under Virginia's law, instantaneous checks on the backgrounds of prospective handgun buyers are conducted.

The Brady bill would require a handgun buyer to wait five working days while the dealer checked whether the person was eligible to own one.

Despite the Court's decision law enforcement officials in a majority of states will use local laws to continue to perform background checks on handgun buyers.