timgunfreak
Well-known member
As some of you may know, after many years of people (including UT members) telling me to make the move to the US, I recently obtained my US immigration visa after winning the green card lottery last year, and I am looking forward to living in a free(er) country soon.
I suspect most of my guns cannot move with me to the US, as I own a number of registered machine guns and guns that would be caught by the 1989 US assault weapon import ban.
I also have some registered guns that can be imported into the US, but these guns and their parts to suit cannot be legally imported into Australia. The reason for this is while these guns are not semi autos, these firearms are manual action firearms that resemble assault weapons in appearance and therefore under Australia's absurd "appearance laws" are considered assault weapons.
Here is a good example of this absurd law at its finest:
https://youtu.be/VpRTJ8hmCQY
Some of my manual action firearms need repairs and I cannot import parts into Australia to repair them.
The good news is I can legally export my manual action "assault weapons" have them repaired outside of Australia, then legally import them back into Australia.
You may ask why? Well just like pre 89 imported assault weapons in the US, these manual action assault weapons in Australia are worth alot of money, and i intend to sell them for as much as I can get before I move to the US to live. I look forward to spending the profits on real assault weapons in the US when I'm living in the US.
The way winning the green card lottery works is once you are issued the immigrant visa (called a diversity visa) you have six (6) months to "activate" the visa. To activate the visa you have to enter a US port of entry. Once activated, you can if you want return to your home country for up to a year to finalize your affairs without permission before returning to the US to reside, or over one year with permission from the US government after paying a $500+ Fee.
So simply put, I will be entering the US as an immigrant before March 2023 and will become a US lawful permanent resident the moment my US immigrant visa is activated. As a US lawful permanent resident I can lawfully possess firearms in the US.
So my visa activation trip to the US will be the perfect opportunity to bring my manual action firearms to the US for repairs, before taking them back to Australia with me for sale, before I make my final move to the US to live.
Therefore my questions are what are the procedures for someone entering the US on an IMMIGRANT visa to bring firearms into the US? and then to export these firearms (once repaired) out of the US?
Can I import these firearms myself? Or can only an FFL import these firearms? or can I Import the firearms on behalf of the FFL (basically I would be a courier)? Or must the FFL import the firearms themselves?
Does anyone have any links to any import permit application forms, either for an immigrant or FFL to complete or other information that would assist?
What are the procedures and permits required to export these firearms out of the US?
I did email the ATF at their imports enquiry email address back in March 2022 asking these questions, but importing on a non-immigrant visa (as that appears to be lawful) and got not reply from the ATF.
My visa activation trip is the perfect and.cost effective opportunity to bring my manual action firearms to the US for repairs, so I want to get this right and not end up breaking any US laws.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I suspect most of my guns cannot move with me to the US, as I own a number of registered machine guns and guns that would be caught by the 1989 US assault weapon import ban.
I also have some registered guns that can be imported into the US, but these guns and their parts to suit cannot be legally imported into Australia. The reason for this is while these guns are not semi autos, these firearms are manual action firearms that resemble assault weapons in appearance and therefore under Australia's absurd "appearance laws" are considered assault weapons.
Here is a good example of this absurd law at its finest:
https://youtu.be/VpRTJ8hmCQY
Some of my manual action firearms need repairs and I cannot import parts into Australia to repair them.
The good news is I can legally export my manual action "assault weapons" have them repaired outside of Australia, then legally import them back into Australia.
You may ask why? Well just like pre 89 imported assault weapons in the US, these manual action assault weapons in Australia are worth alot of money, and i intend to sell them for as much as I can get before I move to the US to live. I look forward to spending the profits on real assault weapons in the US when I'm living in the US.
The way winning the green card lottery works is once you are issued the immigrant visa (called a diversity visa) you have six (6) months to "activate" the visa. To activate the visa you have to enter a US port of entry. Once activated, you can if you want return to your home country for up to a year to finalize your affairs without permission before returning to the US to reside, or over one year with permission from the US government after paying a $500+ Fee.
So simply put, I will be entering the US as an immigrant before March 2023 and will become a US lawful permanent resident the moment my US immigrant visa is activated. As a US lawful permanent resident I can lawfully possess firearms in the US.
So my visa activation trip to the US will be the perfect opportunity to bring my manual action firearms to the US for repairs, before taking them back to Australia with me for sale, before I make my final move to the US to live.
Therefore my questions are what are the procedures for someone entering the US on an IMMIGRANT visa to bring firearms into the US? and then to export these firearms (once repaired) out of the US?
Can I import these firearms myself? Or can only an FFL import these firearms? or can I Import the firearms on behalf of the FFL (basically I would be a courier)? Or must the FFL import the firearms themselves?
Does anyone have any links to any import permit application forms, either for an immigrant or FFL to complete or other information that would assist?
What are the procedures and permits required to export these firearms out of the US?
I did email the ATF at their imports enquiry email address back in March 2022 asking these questions, but importing on a non-immigrant visa (as that appears to be lawful) and got not reply from the ATF.
My visa activation trip is the perfect and.cost effective opportunity to bring my manual action firearms to the US for repairs, so I want to get this right and not end up breaking any US laws.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.