[sonny]

If you live in one state and have a vacation home in another state....... and spend a few months out of the year there
can you purchase and keep firearms in that place as a part time resident?
For example ....you live in NY and spend winters in FLA?
I know many states offer out of state driver licenses for people who wish to keep there home state address,Good only in that state.

[Ex-Doc]

Yes, if otherwise legal. Some states require "proof" of residence to buy certain firearms, which by CA law is a current utility bill for example. You'd be covered in CA. I have friends that have all their "Evil" guns at their place in AZ while living and working in CA. And now with $1,500+ a year car registration fees they register their "Evil" cars in AZ as well; not to mention 9.5% sales tax, coming soon city and county income tax....I could go on all day about the benefits of dual state residences.

[sonny]

This subject makes me wonder about the Hollywood elite that have MANY homes in different places

[another okie]

The vagueness of English words strikes again.

Residence as a legal concept means the place in which you make your principal home, or to which you intend to return to make your principal home.

Residence in ordinary English means a structure.

You can have as many houses as you want, but you are resident in one place.

[Art Eatman]

My wife and I are in a second marriage for each of us situation. We each have our own micro-empires; mine in Texas and hers in Georgia. So, we're back and forth a lot. I know every good coffee joint and El Cheapo gas station along I-10 from Tallahassee to San Antonio, and on out US 90. :)

Guns at both places, and a lot of backing and forthing with seasons and usage.

So far, never a problem.

:), Art

[GregoryTech]

You can have as many houses as you want, but you are resident in one place.

If you add "at a time."

According to the BATF faq on their web site, iIf you have a summer home or "reside" in a different state part of the year, you can buy a gun in either state, but you must be residing in the state of purchase at the time of purchase.

[Art Eatman]

Dunno about ATF, but commonly your legal residence is where you are registered to vote.

Art

[GregoryTech]

Dunno about ATF, but commonly your legal residence is where you are registered to vote.

I don't disagree with your statement, but to the specific question of this thread:

http://www.atf.treas.gov/firearms/faq/faq2.htm

(B13) May a person who resides in one state and owns property in another state purchase a handgun in either state?

If a person maintains a home in 2 states and resides in both states for certain periods of the year, he or she may, during the period of time the person actually resides in a particular state, purchase a handgun in that state. But simply owning property in another state does not qualify the person to purchase a handgun in that state.

[Art Eatman]

GregoryTech: The problem is that of ID. One's driver's license is the normal proof of identity for a 4473, and many states regard it as illegal for one to have a DL from more than one state. Thus you're back to full-bore legality for handgun purchase only in your state of legal residence, plus the adjacent states. (I guess it's still legal to buy a handgun in a neighboring state; the laws have been changed quite a bit...)

There are many contradictions in such matters as ID. For instance, a driver's license is proof of identity but not citizenship. A voter's registration card is proof of citizenship, but not of identity. Go figure.

:), Art

"Bad law breeds contempt for all law."

[HankB]

$1,500+ a year car registration fees You're kidding, right? An old beater will cost more to register than the blue book value? :uhoh:

[Kharn]

Art: You can only buy a handgun in a state you have residence (assuming you arent an FFL).

I went through this same mess last year, I live 6 months out of the year in Delaware, so I wanted a state ID card saying I lived there. They said the laws just changed and that you could only have a single DL/ID card at a time, one of each or multiples are illegal (at least in Delaware). Some day, I might get around to asking the ATF what would be considered proof of ID/residency if the secondary state of residence refused to issue a photo ID.

Kharn

[GregoryTech]

Art: Good point. Perhaps a utility bill and a passport combination would do the trick. Florida issues "Valid in Florida Only" drivers licenses and you don't have to surrender your out-of-state residency or out-of-state drivers license to get one. So part time residents in FL actually can have legal FL identification. I'm curious if the local FFLs honor them or not though.

[GinSlinger]

Whatever happened to Article IV Section I??? Full Faith and Credit ring a bell? Texas requires a Texas ID to buy packaged liquor/beer/wine. If I understand this thread correctly, some states require you to have a second ID for a partial year residence. I had a job in MD that was going to last four months, I was informed that I would have 30 days to change my vehicle registration and to get a MD issued ID. Does the Constitution really mean so little?

GinSlinger

[Tom B]

It's all about the DL as long as you have had it for at least 90 days. If not it's utility bills, etc...