"non resident aliens cannot shoot at the range"

[zxcvbob]

I just found this. The range owner may be an idiot, but he also might be right:
http://www.justice.gov/olc/2011/nonimmigrant-firearms-opinion.pdf

It looks be intentionally incomprehensible.

 

[duns]

I just found this. The range owner may be an idiot, but he also might be right:
http://www.justice.gov/olc/2011/nonimmigrant-firearms-opinion.pdf

No, he was wrong because he said you need to be a US citizen to shoot at a range.

However, *if* merely putting your hands on a firearm constitutes possession, then it would appear that a nonimmigrant alien needs a hunting license (or fall into an exempt category) to rent/borrow a gun from a range operator or to shoot a friend's gun at the range or anywhere else.

 

[Art Eatman]

I read it, and take it to mean that the visa-alien can't buy, can't borrow and tote, or act independently with a firearm (transport, as in travel).

Shooting somebody's firearm under supervision of the owner does not appear to be the focus of that law. The owner still has control over the firearm.

If a US citizen rents a firearm at a shop with a range, he would then be acting as an agent of the shop-owner as the visa-alien shoots insofar as control of the firearm. That's the way it looks to me, anyway.

 

[duns]

I just found this. The range owner may be an idiot, but he also might be right:
http://www.justice.gov/olc/2011/nonimmigrant-firearms-opinion.pdf

It looks be intentionally incomprehensible.

That document is not very relevant to the current discussion. The Gun Control Act imposed certain restrictions on nonimmigrant aliens admitted under a visa. With the introduction of the Visa Waiver Program, residents of many countries are now admitted into the USA without need for a visa. So the question has arisen as to whether nonimmigrant aliens admitted under the Visa Waiver Program are exempt from the restrictions of the GCA. The ATF has been working on the assumption that Congress intended all nonimmigrant aliens to be subject to the same restrictions whether they had a visa or not, but the ATF now admits this interpretation is not borne out by the words of the statute.