Charlie, firearms that are placed on layaway are pulled immediately. If you receive an order confirmation email stating layaway has been activated, your firearm has been secured. I have placed several firearms on layaway that showed only 1 in stock and have had no issue. Cheers and stay safe!

Last I heard layaway is suspended due to high demand of firearms. If you can manage to get an item on layaway it would indeed hold that item for you and it would ship as soon as it was paid off. ( this is the reason they suspended layaway guns are in high demand)
While layaway is still likely suspended they do offer financing through Credova, and with financing you get the item shipped before its paid off

If you put it on lay away it should be physically reserved for you. You can make sure of this with Chat now. Chat stays full on Sunday so you might have to do it on Monday.