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From ATF Form 4473 (firearms Transaction Record)
Instructions to Transferor/Seller

1. Know your customer: Before a licensee may sell or deliver a firearm to a nonlicensee, the licensee must establish the identity, place of residence, and age of the buyer. The buyer must provide a government-issued photo identification to the seller that contains the buyers name, residence address, and date of birth. …. A driver’s license or an identification card issued by a State in place of a license is acceptable. ….

Does this mean that the State of New York, the Department of Homeland Security, and the BATFE are making it easier for illegal aliens (read terrorists) to purchase their new AK-47s or AR-15s? Or is it a new way to circumvent the 2nd Amendment to make it even harder for a citizen to purchase a firearm?

I leave it to the conspiracy theorists to provide an answer.

The federal license ID law requires that any licenses issued to non-residents be a different color, and state on their face that they are issued to a non-resident. Therefore, these alien licenses would not meet the ATF conditions.

The way that Spitzer wanted to do it originally would have given illegal aliens the SAME license as New York citizens.

Congressman Billybob