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I called my local gun shop/range. They would allow anyone over 18 with identification to use their range including renting a gun and buying ammo from them. I asked about a foreigner with a passport and they said fine. This is in SC.
I'm not sure why there are so many comments about CA being a problem if she wants to go shooting. Plenty of gun ranges, and you can rent, shoot and buy ammo at any of them. There's even a 1/2 off Groupon special going in San Francisco right now! https://www.groupon.com/local/san-fr...shooting-range
MA possession prohibited, with an exception of "under instruction." This would leave out most or all rentals, which probably don't exist in MA, anyway. It would NOT rule out personal instruction, most likely by a private individual. If one of her friends in MA is a gun nut, no problem.
I haven't been in CA in a long time, but I think that fifty years ago, possession by a non-citizen was illegal. Possibly things have changed for the better in CA.
Don't know, but hard to imagine that there is much of a problem with the law in GA.
The main thing in any state is either having a friend there who is willing to instruct, or finding a commercial enterprise that actually instructs, one on one. A person without knowledge of guns and their safe handling should not just rent a gun and start playing with it, regardless of what the law may seem to permit. I'm sure your friend would never do this, but I mention it to point out that the real issue is not so much the law, which may not interfere anyway, but rather finding competent instruction on fairly short notice.
In California you do need to be 21 to purchase the ammunition. Tourist coming to shoot is a not ignored part of the business in ranges near the international airports. Most require a party of at least two before they will rent you a weapon to cut down on someone renting to commit suicide at their firing range.
Not meant to be funny firing ranges that rent weapons often require a party of two, there are no cooling off periods. In theory a lone suicide candidate would not bring a friend along who might stop him. The suicide pact is a possibility but the industry thinks the risk of that is much lower
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