(A)  Substantive Offenses.  Since 1988, the INA has provided that a conviction of certain firearms offenses constitutes a ground of deportation.  The current statutory definition provides:

 

Any alien who at any time after admission is convicted under any law of purchasing, selling, offering for sale, exchanging, using, owning, possessing, or carrying, or of attempting or conspiring to purchase, sell, offer for sale, exchange, use, own, possess, or carry, any weapon, part, or accessory which is a firearm or destructive device (as defined in section 921(a) of Title 18) in violation of any law is deportable.[1225] 

[1225] INA § 237(a)(2)(C), 8 U.S.C. § 1227(a)(2)(C).

Second Circuit

FIREARMS - FALSE STATEMENTS TO OBTAIN FIREARM
Dulal-Whiteway v. US Dep't of Homeland Sec., 501 F.3d 116 (2d Cir. Sept. 19, 2007) (federal conviction for violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(a)(6), false statement in order to obtain a firearm, is divisible with respect to whether the conviction constitutes a firearms offense under immigration law, since the statute also punishes making a false statement in order to obtain ammunition; the record of conviction here showed the conviction was for false statement in order to obtain a firearm, and the conviction therefore constitutes a deportable firearms offense).