[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 27, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 27CFR447.57]

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            TITLE 27--ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, AND FIREARMS
 
   CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS, AND EXPLOSIVES, 
                          DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 447_IMPORTATION OF ARMS, AMMUNITION AND IMPLEMENTS OF WAR--Table of 
 
                   Subpart F_Miscellaneous Provisions
 
Sec.  447.57  U.S. military defense articles.

    (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or of parts 
478 or 479 of this chapter, no military defense article of United States 
manufacture may be imported into the United States if such article was 
furnished to a foreign government under a foreign assistance or foreign 
military sales program of the United States.
    (2) The restrictions in paragraph (a)(1) of this section cover 
defense articles which are advanced in value or improved in condition in 
a foreign country, but do not include those which have been 
substantially transformed as to become, in effect, articles of foreign 
manufacture.
    (b) Paragraph (a) of this section will not apply if:
    (1) The applicant submits with the ATF Form 6--Part I application 
written authorization from the Department of State to import the defense 
article; and
    (2) In the case of firearms, such firearms are curios or relics 
under 18 U.S.C. 925(e) and the person seeking to import such firearms 
provides a certification of a foreign government that the firearms were 
furnished to such government under a foreign assistance or foreign 
military sales program of the United States and that the firearms are 
owned by such foreign government. (See Sec.  478.118 of this chapter 
providing for the importation of certain curio or relic handguns, rifles 
and shotguns.)
    (c) For the purpose of this section, the term ``military defense 
article'' includes all defense articles furnished to foreign governments 
under a foreign assistance or foreign military sales program of the 
United States as set forth in paragraph (a) of this section.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under OMB Control No. 
1512-0017)

[T.D. ATF-287, 54 FR 13681, Apr. 5, 1989, as amended by T.D. ATF-393, 62 
FR 61235, Nov. 17, 1997; T.D. ATF-426, 65 FR 38198, June 20, 2000]