[El Gato]

NRA-ILA says 10 days. Must have changed with the NICS check. Cramer rarely gets it wrong, but old stuff tends to hang around on the 'net.

[.38sw]

I looked it up on the Ca. AG DOJ site, and linked in post 35. I don't know when it changed, since I only bought my first firearm in 1999, and it was 10 days then.