This residency definition / requirement is outdated and discriminatory. It clearly prohibits purchasing a firearm by anyone that doesn’t live in a government approved residence.
There is no requirement that your home be "government approved".
The BATF is requiring that the buyer have a address where they are living. This address is given by the Government.
It is so vague as to be almost meaningless.
Not vague at all. We should actually celebrate the idea that "home is where you make it". It is a very liberal interpretation of residency by ATF.
Where you tired when you wrote this or actually serious?
Why should homeless people be prohibited from buying a gun? I have been reading articles about how the high cost of renting is forcing people to live in their cars or on the streets. If anything their need for self-defense is greater.
They aren't. If they can provide the documentation required. It won't be easy but is doable.
If they have the money to hire a lawyer to overcome that legal hurdle they have enough more than enough money to rent or buy a place to live.
A tent in my back yard would be legal for anyone that wants to use it as their "residence address". They would just need a government document showing that address and their name. The easiest would be a traffic ticket or hunting license.
Why does it have to be a tent?
How about a sleeping bag thrown on the ground or just covering up with some leaves or nothing at all?
A traffic ticket is sufficient I.D. when filling out the Form 4473?
If so, it didn't get very far because its been a requirement for decades. That Ruling just clarified what was already a requirement.
Jim Crow Laws, Poll Taxes, "Separate but Equal" laws were also legal for decades.
Residency was never the intention of our Founding Fathers. As many of them were men of property they easily could have added that provision to the 2nd Amendment if they wanted gun owners to be living in a fixed location / dwelling. The fact they did not shows they believed that simply be a citizen satisfied the legal requirement to buy and own firearms. They recognized about how dangerous the requirement of owning property could lead to a ruling class.
In fact the United States throughout the late 18th, all of the 19th and early 20th centuries was a very mobile society. The western expansion meant people where constantly on the move, looking for better opportunities. Federal law did not prohibit me from pulling my wagon up to the hardware store along the trail and buying gun(s). Living in unsettled territory did not have a street address.
People living in cars have to have a address in order to be able to get a license for it. However the reason for the address is for taxation and revenue. As long they paying their taxes and fees to the Government they do not care where you actually live.
A R.V. is licensed for the same reason. In fact some (many when new) R.V.'s cost as much as a home
Why do I have to prove a physical address to buy a gun? Why shouldn’t my birth certificate proving I was born in the U.S. (or my citizenship documentation) be sufficient? All the other laws and regulations are intended to exclude people from being able to buy a firearm.
Think about this for a moment. Microchipping is proven technology. It is being used commonly on animals with no ill effects to the animal it is implanted in. As microchips are refined the amount of information that can be stored in it is increasing. We are easily standing at the door where the Government could require all people living in the United States be microchipped. Once done imagine the purposes the Government will use it for.
For example information could be downloaded in the chip proving I was born in the United States. So I walk into the LGS, they scan my chip and pesto instant confirmation!
The brave new world does not have to be all bad.
