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30 March 2006, 07:21
gnoahhh
Importing
Is there any way to import firearms from Australia? This is a topic totally foreign to me.
30 March 2006, 07:59
conifer
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Sure!....same as from anywhere else....sporting guns easy .....just send all infoo to BATF with (I think) Form 6....check their web-site....give form to FFL licensee.....with info as to maker, country of manufacture, barrel length, overall length, type (shotgun, rifle, combination), serial number, price. Licensee sends form to ATF. You sit and wait 3 months. Don't call ATF if slow...they will not talk to you....will only talk to licensee.
29 April 2006, 07:33
mousegun
Dont you need a firearms import license?


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01 May 2006, 19:32
conifer
More info:
I sent ATF 2 import applications (via my FFL licensee) last Aug. I KNOW they received both, because I received approval for 1 of them four months later. They never replied on the other. Finally, today I contacted a supervisor there, and learned 2 things.
1. The person who was responsible for my application has quit her job, and NO paperwork can be found.
2. NEVER NEVER use the word "Mauser" in an application. This is because NO MATTER whether the rifle in question is a commercial rifle with action based on a commercial Mauser or clone thereof ..... ATF will consider the rifle to be "military", and will therefore require that the import application originate from a licensed importer (extremely costly) together with an unimaginably complicated set of documents.
ATF has enormous and unhappy responsibilities in today's world, with so many "bad guys"/terrorists/crazys out there.... so I sympathize with them. I just wish it weren't so, so that simple and innocent requests like mine could be handled expeditiously.