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Yes, I've read it many times since it was issued in 2010.
Renting an apartment or house for several months= making it your home.
Renting a motel room for the weekend= not making it your home.
Your words were "temporarily relocated".....not a typical way to explain a weekend stay, a week stay or a vacation.
The ATF ruling says short term, transient stays are not enough to establish a state of residency for the purpose of acquiring a firearm.
A member of the military on active duty can claim the state where his active duty station in located and the state where he actually resides.....but not his home "state of record" that he tells the military. Example: A soldier from Arkansas, with an AR drivers license, enlists in the Army and is eventually stationed at Ft Bliss, TX. But he actually lives in a house in New Mexico. His "state of residence" for the purposes of acquiring firearms is not Arkansas, but NM & TX.
His and your assumptions don't count as much as ATF's.
A weekend? Yeah, that's temporary.
A month? Maybe.
Three months, probably not.
Six months, definitely not.
Guess what, grandma and grandpa sell their house and buy a Winnebago to travel the US. They have their mail sent to your house in WV. They keep their DL's from WV, stay registered to vote, pay taxes, etc in WV....but they aren't residents of WV because they aren't actually making WV their home. They are transient.
In your head you think you may return to WV?
Do you maintain a household there, returning there often?
If so, you may be able to claim two states of residence for the purpose of acquiring firearms.
This is a pretty liberal ruling by ATF. It doesn't require "establishing residency", doesn't require signing a lease, buying property or even getting a drivers license from your new state...just live there.