Quandary ...

[Mreed911]

FWIW, more than a few LGS down here won't sell to non-residents without Texas ID.

Which is why he asked about residency and getting a Texas ID Card.

If you do not have a permanent address (over 30 days and are listing it while paying taxes as a resident is a good way to think of it) you will hardly find any FFL willing to risk it, legality doesn't matter if no one will sell to you anyway.

Unless, of course, you qualify for and obtain a Texas ID Card, which you can do without a permanent address as long as you've been there more than 30 days.

 

[minuteman32]

I learned that the genesis of this issue seem to be that with the passage of the GCA68, one could only buy long guns in their home state & contiguous states (& vice versa) if each state passed a state law allowing for this. After the FOPA, one could buy long guns anywhere in the US, as long as it was "legal in both states". The ATF decided that if a state had passed the law after the GCA68, then that was the ONLY states that one could buy a long gun in, unless each state repealed the old law.
Anything to slow the exercise of a right, I guess!