KLB wrote: ↑Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:53 pm
[1.] Federal law, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), bans gun and ammunition possession not just by felons, illegal aliens, illegal drug users, and the like, but also by aliens who have been perfectly legally "admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa."
[2.] "Possess[ing]" and "receiv[ing]" has been viewed as including temporary rental of a gun at a shooting range; indeed, that was one of the bases for prosecution in Rehaif. Rehaif was illegally present, but the statutory definition of possession and receipt would apply equally to all the categories of forbidden possessors and recipients, including people legally admitted under a nonimmigrant visa. Likewise, see U.S. v. Moussaoui (11th Cir. 2010), in which the defendant was indeed a legal visitor prosecuted for possession at a shooting range.
http://reason.com/volokh/2019/01/15/man ... -foreign-s
When I was a kid, we had exchange students stay with us on multiple occasions. Though I don't recall taking any of them to a shooting range, we could easily have done so.
I guess I’m an outlaw then. About 4-5 years ago, we hosted a couple of South Korean college students for a week or two who were interning at our church for a couple of months during summer. One was a young woman, and the other a young man....both in their early 20s. After finding out that the guy had already done his compulsory military service in the ROK Army, I took him too the local Bass Pro pistol range and we shot several different handguns together.
Should I turn myself in?
