{"id":542,"date":"2018-01-02T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2018\/01\/02\/why-cant-we-import-cool-guns-adam-krau\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:28:25","slug":"why-cant-we-import-cool-guns-adam-krau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Can&#8217;t We Import Cool Guns&#8221; &#8211; Adam Kraut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7877,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.ammoland.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/sporting-purposes-exemption-the-legal-brief-video\\\/#axzz52zad8HCP&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250817115531\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.ammoland.com\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/sporting-purposes-exemption-the-legal-brief-video\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 01:20:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 07:55:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 07:55:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7878,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.adamkraut.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nFirearms attorney Adam Kraut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2017\/12\/sporting-purposes-exemption-the-legal-brief-video\/#axzz52zad8HCP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explains some of the nuances of the sporting purposes exemption<\/a> for the importation of firearms. He notes that the BATFE has consistently determined that shooting competitions like IDPA, USPSA, IPSC, and 3-Gun are not a sporting use nor is plinking.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VSTyFXBAMvk\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of corrections that Adam points out need to be made in his video. First, he used an image for the USAS-12 shotgun that was actually the AA-12. Second, around the 4:14 mark, the video says the &#8220;FBI determined&#8221; when he actually meant BATFE.<\/p>\n<p>For those that don&#8217;t know, Adam, in addition to his firearms practice, is a podcaster at The Gun Collective. He is also a petition candidate for the NRA Board of Directors for whom I helped secure signatures as I support his candidacy. You can find more on that at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamkraut.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adamkraut.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firearms attorney Adam Kraut explains some of the nuances of the sporting purposes exemption for the importation of firearms.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,1276,1277,760],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-kraut","tag-imports","tag-sporting-purpose","tag-the-gun-collective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11267,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/11267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}