Gifting Guns

[The Heretic]

The text from the instructions for the 4473 form:

Question 11.a. Actual Transferee/Buyer: For purposes of this form, you are the actual transferee/buyer if you are purchasing the firearm for yourself or otherwise acquiring the firearm for yourself (e.g., redeeming the firearm from pawn/retrieving it from consignment, firearm raffle winner). You are also the actual transferee/buyer if you are legitimately purchasing the firearm as a gift for a third party. ACTUAL TRANSFEREE/BUYER EXAMPLES: Mr. Smith asks Mr. Jones to purchase a firearm for Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith gives Mr. Jones the money for the firearm. Mr. Jones is NOT THE ACTUAL TRANSFEREE/BUYER of the firearm and must answer "NO" to question 11.a. The licensee may not transfer the firearm to Mr. Jones. However, if Mr. Brown
goes to buy a firearm with his own money to give to Mr. Black as a present, Mr. Brown is the actual transferee/buyer of the firearm and should answer
"YES" to question 11.a.

 

[The Heretic]

However - the boss must still do the BGC since the boss is not exempt from that - but that is state, not federal law.

 

[wired]

From someone else who has a boss they would take a bullet for I understand your giving your boss a gun. He's going to have to do the transfer on a 4473 though.

 

[JedB]

We looked at the gift certificate option but since the guns going to get engraved it will be mine until after the retirement party / presentation and then we will transfer it.

As a satisfied customer, I would recommend BYE Engraving.
Great work, reasonable prices!

I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer as they do my NFA stuff.

 

[Skier]

Maybe a slightly modified approach. Give him a gift certificate for the engraving, then at the gun store countrr, gift him the money with which to purchase the specified gun. Nothing wrong with gifting cash, at least not yet.

Maybe not optimal, but simple and legal : - )

 

[cascadianliberty2012]

Ask yourself how good of friends are you? Do you trust each other? If so, well, maybe you know what to do...

 

[dustinm]

So after all the debate on this thread, I was sitting at home watching the news last night and this story came on:

Regulations on Gifting Guns

Gets back to my original question, if I'm just the money behind the purchase, and we are both legal to own guns, is it really a straw purchase?