Re: Heading to Texas in September
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Bigchaza</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oh I don't intend to hunt I have loads of free game at home that isn't regulated by tags because it's all non native species. I don't see the point in paying for hunting when I can find 80 goats 15 minutes from my house. All I wanna do is learn how to use an AR and spray a few targets with it and maybe do a long range shooting course to brush up my f class skills.</div></div>
it's not about the hunting, mate; just trying to help keep you out of trouble during your visit because pursuant to federal law, non-resident aliens can only possess firearms under discrete circumstances:
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/nonimmigrant-aliens.html#nonimmigrant-possession
<span style="font-weight: bold">Q: May nonimmigrant aliens legally in the United States purchase or possess firearms and ammunition while in the United States?</span>
Nonimmigrant aliens generally are prohibited from possessing or receiving (purchasing) firearms and ammunition in the United States.
There are exceptions to this general prohibition. The exceptions are as follows:
1. nonimmigrant aliens who possess a valid (unexpired) hunting license or permit lawfully issued by a State in the United States;
[<span style="font-style: italic">18 U.S.C. 922(g)(5)(b) and 922
, 27 CFR 478.124, ATF Rul. 2004-1</span>]
<span style="font-weight: bold">Q: Typically, who are “nonimmigrant aliens?”</span>
In large part, nonimmigrant aliens are persons traveling temporarily in the United States for business or pleasure, persons studying in the United States who maintain a foreign residence abroad, and certain foreign workers. Permanent resident aliens are not nonimmigrant aliens. Permanent resident aliens often are referred to as people with “green cards.”
<span style="font-weight: bold">Q: I’m a nonimmigrant alien who is coming to the United States for two weeks to go hunting. Can I rent a firearm in the United States to use on this trip? What if I want to go to a shooting range one day — can I rent a firearm there as well?</span>
As long as you possess a valid hunting license from a State within the United States, you may rent firearms to hunt and to use at a shooting range. If you do not have the hunting license, your possession of the firearms and ammunition will be unlawful. The hunting license does not have to be from the State where you will be possessing the guns and ammunition.
[<span style="font-style: italic">18 U.S.C. 922(a)(5) and (9), 922(g)(5)(B) and 922
</span>]