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Jumping Frog wrote:

n5wd wrote:One clarification about the law of selling guns in a private sale. Under federal (US) law, you must not sell a gun to someone that is not legally eligible to own or possess a firearm. That includes anyone who has been found guilty of a felony, or someone that has been arrested for, or has been found guilty of domestic violence, and, for a handgun, someone who is not a resident of the state that you are living in.

A minor clarification here, the actual language is "knowing or having reasonable cause to believe". If I demonstrate due diligence when selling a firearm to another person by asking them if they are in any way disqualified from purchasing a firearm, and they lie to me, then I have no reasonable cause to believe they are prohibited.

Unless, when you ask that question, they act like my 3-year old grandson does when I ask him if he ate the last cookie on the plate!

Merhaba, arkadaşı Chuck!

You provided a very good explanation of how a non-resident Alien can get their Concealed Handgun License... information that is occasionally asked for, here, and that will become a very good reference for others, I believe.

One clarification about the law of selling guns in a private sale. Under federal (US) law, you must not sell a gun to someone that is not legally eligible to own or possess a firearm. That includes anyone who has been found guilty of a felony, or someone that has been arrested for, or has been found guilty of domestic violence, and, for a handgun, someone who is not a resident of the state that you are living in.

Because of the potential problems, I've noticed that many folks here on the forum advertise that they will sell only to other people of possess a CHL. I'm not in that crowd, but I do ask the purchaser specifically if they are legally permitted to posses a handgun.

Because of that, you may find that some people hesitate to sell a firearm to a non-resident Alien. It's not anything prejudicial, but just that most people may not be aware that a non-resident Alien can legally possess and purchase a firearm.

Anyway - glad to see someone from Turkey here on the forum. My wife and I lived in Adana for a couple of years in the early 70's - I was stationed at Incirlik with the US Air Force, there. We lived off base in downtown Adana, in one of their "skyscraper" apartment buildings. Great TV reception from Beruit, Damascus, Tel Aviv, and Nicosia when you're living on the 15th floor of a 20 story apartment building, facing the Mediterranean (on a good day, we could almost see the Med, and during the 1973 Israeli war we all gathered on top of the apartment building to watch as the Israeli's bombed Latakia harbour... could see the flashes from the explosions vaugely on the horizon).

Anyway - very fond memories of the area around Adana, and of the friends we made. The family next door was very protective of my wife, and she always knew that they were just a knock on the door away should she need anything while I was working on base.

Enjoy the forum!

Wayne