But those without a residential address are not, in fact, prohibited from private transfers, because private transfers do not require a residential address. They merely require that the parties involved reside in the same state. As such, during the period where I lived in the Green Mountain National Forest, I did not have a residential address, but I did reside in the state of Vermont. Thus it was legal for private parties to transfer firearms to me. The same can be said for the homeless- they do not have residential addresses, but one can not deny that a homeless person who sleeps in a box in an alley in Burlington does in fact reside in Vermont, and is thus eligible to engage in private firearms transfers with other residents of Vermont.