Buying a handgun

[joeoim]

I asked last week what it took to buy a handgun with an out of state drivers license and have been told that it is impossible.
I'm in Nebraska right now with a Colorado drivers license.
Nebraska requires you to have a handgun buyers permit in order to buy a handgun. It is good for 3 years, but I've been told you HAVE to have a Nebraska license in order to get one.

Does any one know the law in Kansas or Iowa?

The owner of a shooting range told me this afternoon that you can't buy a handgun outside of the state in which your drivers license is issued. This is news to me if true.

Joe

 

[faustulus]

Don't quote me but I am pretty sure that is a federal law. State to state transfers are prohibited.

 

[Baba Louie]

Since 68.

Kinda been the law ever since.

Supposed to have your papers in order by being a resident of said state and only a resident. Some states make ya wait a while too. Or is that just for CCW?

Land of the free. Sorta.

Adios

 

[Matthew Courtney]

Federal law only allows a handgun to be transfered to you in your state of residence.

Caselaw holds that your state of residence is the state that issued your ID or driver's license.

Unless you are covered by an exception, Nebraska law requires you to get a Nebraska license or ID within a set period of time after relocating there.

Your buying a gun out of state and bringing it in is a bad idea.

If you intend to remain in Nebraska, change your DL and vehicle registrations. If you do not, buy a pistol in Colorado while you are still legally considered a Colorado resident.

Interstate moving expenses are huge. You normally have to pay sales tax on the value of vehicles that you own.

 

[joeoim]

Thanks for the intel.

I'll be going back to colorado in a month, I own property there so it's my residence.

I could have a handgun shipped to a colorado ffl, could I not?

I don't know how I've lived this long and know so little.

Joe

 

[Baba Louie]

Allow me to clarify a point joeoim,

The GCA of 68 which set up the FFL system we now know and love so well has some rule that you cannot legally purchase a handgun from a licensed firearms dealer unless you reside in the state and any inerstate transactions must go thru another licensed dealer(s).

Keywords being "Licensed Dealer" for outastate transfers.

I'm sure that private transactions between indivduals are also covered therein, but I'm no legal scholar and far be it from me to suggest... no. I won't suggest anything.

I have, however, heard tales (probably just far-fetched fantasies) of some (more than likely misguided) people actually buying handguns from individuals, as opposed to licensed dealers, when out of their state of residency and transporting the self same handgun across state lines, but I'm sure that doing so would be wrong and more than likely illegal and if one were to do that, the hounds of hades would surely come down upon one.

Colorado has several million people residing there with several "Licensed Firearms Dealers" I'm sure, so there would be no need for you to "Break a Law" and buy from a "NON-" licensed individual in a private transaction.

Besides that, it'd probably be wrong and most likely illegal, immoral and unjust.

In the good old days, that wasn't against the law. It was a private transaction between private individuals. That was then, this is now.

I think that long guns may be purchased from an out of state resident, but I'm also not quite sure. Someone here can probably give you the correct answer.

Lotta laws. Aren't there?

Ride with the law. Not agin it.

Adios

 

[Pendragon]

You should be able to "buy" the handgun in NE - but it would have to be sent to an FFL in CO and you would have to do the tranfer there under CO law.

So - say you saw some one of a kind, hard to find, etc - you can still get that gun legally, you just cannot take posession of it in NE, it must go to CO and you get it under CO law.

Now - its not that big a deal for people in most states, but in CA, you cannot recieve a gun that is not on the state list of approved handguns. So we are SOL all the way around.