Originally Posted by
Nomercy448
No, you can't. Long guns can only be hand-carry purchased by residents of any state, or their contiguous bordering states. I.e. for KS, only Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Missouri residents can legally hand-carry purchase firearms.
If you so choose, you can pay for the weapon, and have it transferred from the local KS shop to a local shop in Indiana, where you will fill out the 4473.
Ultimately, no, you cannot walk into a store in KS, as a legal Indiana resident, and purchase a long gun.
***That information is incorrect in regards to the purchase of rifles and shotguns. Three years ago I saw a good deal on a Ruger Red Label O/U at Scheels in Iowa when on my way back from a hunt in Wyoming. My friend back here in MI was looking for one with a straight English style stock (no pistol grip)and they didn't have it at their Des Moines store when I stopped there. They called ahead to the Iowa City store that had one and they held it for a couple hours for me. I went in and showed my MI Drivers License for ID, they put me through the system and I came back good to go in less than five minutes. I paid for it on a CC and brought it back here, gave it to my buddy, and he wrote me a check for it! I just looked it up and it is still legal to this day to make a purchase like that in another state as long as the proper paperwork is filled out, the state laws where it's done allow it, and you pass the background check. Kansas may have a law not allowing it, but most do and you'll just need to check with the FFL dealer where you want to buy the rifle to see if they can do what you want. This is right out of the current Regs:
A person may only buy a firearm within the person's own state, except that he or she may buy a rifle or shotgun,
in person, at a licensee's premises in any state, provided the sale complies with state laws applicable in the state of sale and the state where the purchaser resides. [18 U. S. C 922( a)( 3) and (5), 922( b)( 3), 27 CFR 178.29]