Shooting range laws for a foreigner on a visa?

[strider12]

I was in there with my girlfriend, now wife, and she was asking a question about something. She happened to mention that she was Canadian. The guy behind the counter got all weird and said that she wasn't able to rent, shoot, handle, or even live in a house with guns, because she wasn't a citizen. First I had ever heard of it.

Because everyone that works in a gun store knows everything. About everything.

 

[webicknell]

I have taken friends to Quickshot with foreign passports for ID.... Had no issues.... This was last year Canadian and a friend form Romania a couple months ago...

 

[Swampbogger]

Forrest Park....that says it all

 

[titan2k10]

Gun tourism is a big business for some gun ranges....this is not illegal regardless of where they are a citizen from.

 

[karlvv30]

I've taken my Korean nephew with no problem or questions.

 

[inkdaddy]

Here at both Quickshot locations we get on a regular basis travelers from all over the world. Our requirements are: You must be 18 years old with proper ID in order to shoot on your own. Passports, which we see a lot of are an acceptable form of ID. From the ages of 12 to 17, you must be accompanied by one or both parents only.

 

[inkdaddy]

" What range do you know of that runs a background check to shoot at targets on the range?"

You would be amazed at how many times during the week we get calls, mostly from females, asking this question, "Do we do background checks on the people that come in to shoot??" . Our response is always "YES ABSOLUTELY!!"" You figure it out!!!

 

[GAgunLAWbooklet]

Three pages and nearly 30 posts in this thread, and not a single person has bothered to look up the law?

There IS a federal law on this subject. It's a stupid law that is so absurd that the government is probably not too eager to enforce it, especially when the "possession" in question is simply a temporary possession at a shooting range, and not a longer-term of possession that could be called a "transfer" under federal laws.

Nonetheless, to the extent that the OP asked about what is legal rather than what they can get away with doing at a local shooting range, read this law:
18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B)

This provision of the federal Gun Control Act (1968, but amended many times since then) prohibits any “alien” who has “been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa” from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving “any firearm or ammunition” that has a connection to interstate commerce.

THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE has said that this law only applies to those aliens who would need a visa to legally visit the USA.
BATF, on the other hand, had said that law bans ALL nonresident, non-immigrant aliens from possessing firearms or ammo, unless they meet one of 8 special exceptions in the law, such as coming to the USA for the purpose of a hunting trip or to enter a sport shooting competition. The U.S. Attorney General had to tell ATF to back off a bit, and narrow the scope of the ban.

HOWEVER, nothing in the law says that it only applies to BUYING guns, or transfers. It applies to "possession" too. QUOTE from U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-- Attonrey General's memo of law from October, 2011:
The text of section 922(g)(5)(B), read in accord with section 101(a)(26) of the INA, therefore makes it a crime for an alien who has been “issued” a “visa . . . as an eligible nonimmigrant by a competent officer” to ship, transport, possess, or receive any firearm or ammunition.7 [bold emphasis added]

 

[No2sc2]

" What range do you know of that runs a background check to shoot at targets on the range?"

You would be amazed at how many times during the week we get calls, mostly from females, asking this question, "Do we do background checks on the people that come in to shoot??" . Our response is always "YES ABSOLUTELY!!"" You figure it out!!!

Does it sound like boo calling?

 

[George P. Burdell]

Three pages and nearly 30 posts in this thread, and not a single person has bothered to look up the law?

There IS a federal law on this subject. It's a stupid law that is so absurd that the government is probably not too eager to enforce it, especially when the "possession" in question is simply a temporary possession at a shooting range, and not a longer-term of possession that could be called a "transfer" under federal laws.

Nonetheless, to the extent that the OP asked about what is legal rather than what they can get away with doing at a local shooting range, read this law:
18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(B)

This provision of the federal Gun Control Act (1968, but amended many times since then) prohibits any “alien” who has “been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa” from shipping, transporting, possessing, or receiving “any firearm or ammunition” that has a connection to interstate commerce.

THE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE has said that this law only applies to those aliens who would need a visa to legally visit the USA.
BATF, on the other hand, had said that law bans ALL nonresident, non-immigrant aliens from possessing firearms or ammo, unless they meet one of 8 special exceptions in the law, such as coming to the USA for the purpose of a hunting trip or to enter a sport shooting competition. The U.S. Attorney General had to tell ATF to back off a bit, and narrow the scope of the ban.

HOWEVER, nothing in the law says that it only applies to BUYING guns, or transfers. It applies to "possession" too. QUOTE from U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE-- Attonrey General's memo of law from October, 2011:
The text of section 922(g)(5)(B), read in accord with section 101(a)(26) of the INA, therefore makes it a crime for an alien who has been “issued” a “visa . . . as an eligible nonimmigrant by a competent officer” to ship, transport, possess, or receive any firearm or ammunition.7 [bold emphasis added]

Ok so what is the answer?