• Background Check Required?
  • Private Sale: Yes, private firearm sales or transfers generally require a criminal history background check.
  • Licensed Dealer: Yes, federally licensed dealers must conduct a background check before completing the transfer.
• Waiting Period: None.
• Registration Requirement: None.
• Permit Required (to purchase): Yes, a handgun qualified purchaser permit is generally required to purchase a handgun.
• Concealed Carry Permit: Yes, a license is generally required to carry a concealed deadly weapon.
• Magazine Capacity Limits: Yes, Delaware generally prohibits large-capacity magazines.
• Assault Weapons Limits: Yes, Delaware generally prohibits assault weapons, subject to exceptions and grandfather-type provisions in the statute.

Source: 11 Del. C. §§ 9904, 1448D, 1441, 1469, 1466, 18 U.S.C. § 922(t)

• Unlawful users of or persons addicted to controlled substances.
• Anyone adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution.
• Convicted felons.
• Anyone who renounced U.S. citizenship.
• Minors.
• Fugitives from justice.
• Aliens illegally in the country or admitted under a non-immigrant visa.
• Anyone dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Armed Forces.
• Anyone convicted of a misdemeanor offense of domestic violence.
• Anyone subject to a qualifying court order restraining them from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child.

Source: 11 Del. C. § 1448, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)