which is needed to purchase a gun in your state or country?

Here in Nevada it's pretty easy. As long as your 18 (with ID) person to person sales require nothing, adults can buy and sell guns at garage sales. From dealers all you need is a valid ID, and $25 for the background check.

I should note, that this is for long guns, handguns you must be 21. But everything else is still the same.

Edit--here in NV at 18yrs old you can legally purchase rifles/shotguns, tobacco, and prostitutes. You have to wait until you are 21 for handguns, booze, and gambling.
 
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"In New Hampshire we just show our drivers license, the gun store does a background check over the phone, we pay and out the door we go.lol If theyre not busy we're done and on our way in about 15 20 min."

So far that has been my experience in my home state, Louisiana, and the following.....TX, TN, AR, WI, MN, NE, SD, ID and MT. This is for long guns.
Handguns by federal law have to be purchased in your state of residence.
I travel a lot, and I never know where I'll be when a sale occurs, hence the numerous places I've bought guns in.
And I've bought ammo in every state I've tried to, unrestricted, as it should be.
But I wouldn't even try in IL, CA or the northeast states. Even if they would let me, I refuse to give any tax money to gun grabber states.
 
Drivers license or other approved form of ID and filling out a form saying you're not a felon, current address etc. Gun shop does a background check over the phone, no charge. You pay your money and walk out with it. FTF you pay and leave with it. Gunshows, just show your drivers license to prove you live in the state.
 
In the country called the Commonwealth of Virginia, all I need to do is go to vaguntrader.com or any mesage board and I can buy any non-Class 3/non-destructive device that is available. I do not need permission from the state.
 
Here in Ohio, if buying from a federally licensed dealer at a retail store or a gunshow (MOST people selling at shows here are licensed gun dealers with stores that also set up tables at the shows), all you have to do is pay your money, fill out a form 4473 for the ATF and wait for the dealer to call in the NICS background check. If the background check comes in clean, you walk out with your gun (18 years old for long guns, 21 years old for handguns).

If buying from a private seller, either someone you meet via a website such as armslist.com or at a gunshow, there is no paperwork or NICS background check. I believe (having bought and sold MANY guns from/with private sellers) that the only requirement is that the buyer is of legal age (18/21 as noted above) and that you have no reason to believe that they are a "prohibited person" (felon, addict, etc).

There are no permits, waiting periods, etc here.

All in all, Ohio is not a bad place to live for a gun owner. Even the requirements for a concealed carry permit are as reasonable as any gun law can be in this country at this time.

Papershotshells
 
As others have mentioned, we have 50 states, the District of Columbia, Peurto Rico and probably some other ares I have forgotten. Each will have laws layered upon the national (or federal) requirements. Some are very restrictive, banning some types of guns, some large magazines, mandating special licensing, testing, etc. Others have little or nothing beyond the federal laws.

In my state (Arkansas) there are no state laws beyond what the federal government mandates for purchasing. If one has the state issued concealed carry permit (which is fairly easy to obtain) the background check is waived since you did that already to get the permit.

With private transfers (sales between individuals) I think the buyer must be 18 for handgun or long gun. Other than that not much is required. Legally owning fully automatic rifles, silencers and short barrel rifles and shotguns is relatively easy in this state and I see them for sale. We have no restrictions on firearm type or magazine capacity.
 
From a FFL dealer:
Cash, check, or credit card, current ID with place of residence, completed 4473 and NICS approval ( the last three are federal, and requires everywhere)
From a private party:
Cash or check
 
Firearms Ownership in Japan

Starting from scratch a shotgun is your only option. To purchase a rifle you need to have owned a shotgun for 10 years without any issues. There is no possible way to legally own a modern cartridge handgun in Japan - just forget it.

The following is a BRIEF description of the process :

1) Learn to understand spoken and written Japanese - all instructions and testing are done in Japanese with no provision for other languages.

You will need a hunting license, a firearms ownership license, hunting club membership, and then approval to purchase a firearm.

2) Hunting license - Attend a one day hunter's class at your local police station (available about 6 times per year). One day test and evaluation - hands on test with practical evaluation and a tough written test (pass rate about 30% - for Japanese). Fee is $350. Renewal required every three years.

3) Firearms ownership license - One day test and evaluation - hands on test with practical evaluation and a tough written test (pass rate about 20%) Fee is $300.

4) Mandatory membership in local hunting club. Annual fee about $350.

5) Firearms purchase approval - This is done through your local police. They will question - face to face - your neighbors and family about you. You will need to provide approval from your employer and local city/ward government head. Of course they do an extensive background check on your criminal past (if any), employment, residences, etc. Police will inspect the location where you install the government approved safe in your home. They will also have authority to check on this any time while you maintain your license. There are numerous fees all through this process and, in extreme cases can take up to one year to complete.

Any shotgun here will cost 3 to 5 times what you would expect to pay for the same model in the US.


About the only upside - bag limits are :

Deer - one of each sex (one buck, one doe) per day
Bear - one per day
Boar - one per day
Pheasant - one per day

Hunting "season" is year round. You can hunt every day the sun rises.
 
@Tejicano; I couldn't imagine living in a place that oppressive.

Here in Tennessee you need to fill out your 4473 and have money and ID. Our background checks are done through the TBI by computer and cost $10, which usually gives me a Proceed in about two minutes. Oddly, if I buy a long gun in another state and go through a NICS check it will nearly always delay me (much to my chargrin when I was at the CMP Store and had to leave my Garand).
 
In Illinois, in addition to the Federal Regulations (18 yr old for rifle & 21 yr old for pistol) you must have a current FOID (Firearms Owner ID) card. Purchase requires the FOID, form 4473 & NICS background check (5 min wait) and waiting period requirement (rifles 24 hours, pistols 72 hour wait) and of course cash. Most FFL's will require a drivers lic with the same address as that on your FOID.

To obtain a FOID you must submit a written application with photo and $10.00 processing fee, wait 30 days to get your card (background check by Illinois State Police). Cards are currently issued as valid for 10 years.

That's it.
Jim
 
In Japan, bow hunting must be very popular.
Were there very stringent gun laws in Japan before it became an occupied country, after WW2?
 
Bow hunting is strictly illegal here in Japan.

You can hunt with 1) a snare or trap, 2) with an air rifle (small caliber only), 3) with a shotgun, or 4) with a rifle (the rifle only after 10 years experience with a shotgun). No archery nor muzzleloading is allowed for hunting.

There is a very small shooting community with muzzleloaders but all of those had to have been registered before 1870 (no, that's not a typo - eighteen hundred and seventy). Buying a muzzleloader here is almost as easy as buying an NFA item in the US. Just about all of these are old matchlocks. I have seen fewer than a half dozen cap-and-ball revolvers (mostly original Colt's) for sale on this market, mostly selling for $20,000 to $35,000, but I know of no legal way to get firing caps for them.
 
@Tejicano; I couldn't imagine living in a place that oppressive.
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Just because some country has strict firearms laws, doesn't automatically mean it is an oppressive country. There are more things than firearms laws that make a country an oppressive place or not.
 
There are more things than firearms laws that make a country an oppressive place or not.
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True, but it does make slaves of the populace under the foot of the military rulers. Down with King George III and all that followed him.

Manta49, does southern Ireland have more freedoms??

Jim
 
Just because some country has strict firearms laws, doesn't automatically mean it is an oppressive country. There are more things than firearms laws that make a country an oppressive place or not.
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Not exactly firearms related but more on the subject of freedom/oppression - on a trip back to home it was striking how often you see cars pulled over by the police in the US (I had forgotten about this). In Japan I might see that once a month or less.

I also once saw a guy screaming into the face of a cop over a parking ticket here in Japan. The cop just took it and let the guy rant. When he was done the guy drove away - nothing else happened. In the US, in any state I have been to, I can only imagine how many days you would spend in jail (and/or the hospital) after doing something like that. Japanese cops really do their jobs like they are servants of the public at large.
 
Manta49, does southern Ireland have more freedoms??
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If you are talking about firearms laws, the laws are stricter in the Republic of Ireland than Northern Ireland.

True, but it does make slaves of the populace under the foot of the military rulers.
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Civilians would have more firearms here than the police. The UK is a democracy like America and is not ruled by the military, so your question makes no sense.
 
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Just because some country has strict firearms laws, doesn't automatically mean it is an oppressive country. There are more things than firearms laws that make a country an oppressive place or not.
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That is true I suppose, but it is oppressive in that way at least. I suppose the difference in culture has something to do with it. In Japan, the samurai tradition is deeply ingrained in the collective memory. In the US, we have the American rifleman ingrained in our's.
 
In Japan 99% of criminal suspects confess and no trial is required. This is because in Japan criminal suspects are beaten and tortured into signing confessions.

Japan has no historical traditions with firearms. They have been banned from the beginning as the Shoguns realized that a peasant with a musket could kill the best Samurai and that simply wouldn't do to maintain their imperial system.
 
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