Handgun frame purchase

[varigger]

I am new here and had a quick question. I am active duty military and looking to purchase a Glock 17/22 Frame from a private citizen in Oregon via the internet. I intend to later purchase an Advantage Arms conversion kit and make a dedicated .22 cal pistol. My question is can I purchase the frame and register it here and if so, does anyone have a reference from the DOJ for this issue?

Thanks in advance for your help.
VArigger

[bwiese]

Are you an OR resident or legally have the ability to buy firearms in Oregon (i.e, stationed there)?

If you are resident of another state, you generally cannot buy outside that state without getting an FFL involved. It doesn't matter if the sale is private or not, this is Fed law. People get in trouble for this quite frequently.

If you are a CA resident, you cannot buy this as it's not an approved/Rostered gun configuration: it'd need to go thru a CA FFL, and he generally can't import a non-Rostered pistol for you.

If you are legally capable of buying a firearm in OR, you can buy this item and then eventually move to CA with it.

Once moving to CA, you fill out the New Resident Handgun Ownership Report (on the Calif DOJ Bureau of Firearms website) and pay a $19/handgun fee. You will have 60 days to do this.

It does not matter if it's a frame or not, and it's perfectly legal to change calibers/bbls on your gun after this. Just don't have a threaded bbl on a semiauto pistol, as that's considered an assault weapon in CA.

Non-AW long guns do not have to be reported when moving in.

Assault weapons and hicap (>10rds) mags cannot be imported.

[However, there is a special military AW permit ("MAWP") for those that are to be stationed here to bring in their AWs. Once military service ends in CA the AW has to leave, or [if possible] be configured into non-AW status. This MAWP does not allow hicap mags to be imported for the AW, though - as that's a separate body of law unaddressed by the provisions for AW permits.]

[Two Shots]

If you live on the base I believe you would have to have the armory store the weapon you may want to check on it. The Navy base in San Diego has a policy about having your private weapon kept in the armory.