Billy Peter, a Honolulu resident and citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia, wanted to buy a gun.
But the Honolulu Police Department turned him down last fall, telling him that he was not qualified to apply for a permit because he was a Compact of Free Association alien.
COFA treaties between the U.S. and the FSM, the Republic of Palau and the Republic of the Marshall Islands allow for citizens of the three Micronesian nations to live and work in the U.S. indefinitely…