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Bolt06 wrote:
I have a friend that is fully licensed to own . . . a firearm
There is no "license to own" a gun in PA.
See below, appearing at
http://www.acslpa.org/pa_uniform_firearms_act.htm:
§6115. Loans on, or Lending or Giving Firearms Prohibited.]
(a) Offense defined.—No person shall make any loan secured by mortgage, deposit or pledge of a firearm,
nor, except as provided in subsection (b), shall any person lend or give a firearm to another or otherwise deliver a firearm contrary to the provisions of this subchapter.]
(b) Exception.—]
(1) Subsection (a) shall not apply if any of the following apply:]
(i)
The person who receives the firearm is licensed to carry a firearm under section 6109 (relating to licenses).]
(ii) The person who receives the firearm is exempt from licensing.]
(iii) The person who receives the firearm is engaged in a hunter safety program certified by the Pennsylvania Game Commission or a firearm training program or competition sanctioned or approved by the National Rifle Association
(iv) The person who receives the firearm meets all of the following]
(A) Is under 18 years of age.]
(B) Pursuant to section 6110.1 (relating to possession of firearm by minor) is under the supervision, guidance and instruction (if a responsible individual who.]
(I) is ‘21 years of age or older; and]
(II) is not prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm tinder section 6105 (relating to persons not to possess, use, manufacture, control, sell or transfer firearms)]
(v) The person who receives the firearm is lawfully hunting or trapping and is in compliance with the provisions of Title 34 (relating to game)]
(vi) A bank or other chartered lending institution is able to adequately secure firearms in its possession.]
(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the transfer of a firearm under 20 Pa CS. Ch. 21 (relating to interstate succession) or by bequest if the individual receiving the firearm is not precluded from owning or possessing a firearm under section 6105]
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the loaning or giving of a firearm to another in one’s dwelling or place of business if the firearm is retained within the dwelling or place of business.]