From: Alan R Wise (awise1@cinci.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 23:47:25 PDT
on 7/30/03 2:40 AM, Richard Lathrop at lathrrs@snip.net wrote:
>
> Alan and list,
>
> Per US Code of Federal Regulations Tile 27 part 447
>
> § 447.57 U.S. military defense articles.
>
> (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or of parts 478 or 479
> of this chapter, no military defense article of United States manufacture may
> be imported into the United States if such article was furnished to a foreign
> government under a foreign assistance or foreign military sales program of the
> United States.
>
> (2) The restrictions in paragraph (a)(1) of this section cover defense
> articles which are advanced in value or improved in condition in a foreign
> country, but do not include those which have been substantially transformed as
> to become, in effect, articles of foreign manufacture.
>
> (b) Paragraph (a) of this section will not apply if:
>
> (1) The applicant submits with the ATF Form 6 -- Part I application written
> authorization from the Department of State to import the defense article; and
>
> (2) In the case of firearms, such firearms are curios or relics under 18
> U.S.C. 925(e) and the person seeking to import such firearms provides a
> certification of a foreign government that the firearms were furnished to such
> government under a foreign assistance or foreign military sales program of the
> United States and that the firearms are owned by such foreign government. (See
> § 478.118 of this chapter providing for the importation of certain curio or
> relic handguns, rifles and shotguns.)
>
> (c) For the purpose of this section, the term "military defense article"
> includes all defense articles furnished to foreign governments under a foreign
> assistance or foreign military sales program of the United States as set forth
> in paragraph (a) of this section. (Approved by the Office of Management and
> Budget under OMB Control No. 1512-0017)
>
> [T.D. ATF-287, 54 FR 13681, Apr. 5, 1989, as amended by T.D. ATF-393, 62 FR
> 61235, Nov. 17, 1997; T.D. ATF-426, 65 FR 38198, June 20, 2000]
>
>
>
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Rick,
So, written approval from DOS makes it possible. Has anyone done this?
What's the procedure; anyone know?
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