Inheriting Out of State Firearms

HuckleberryFun · Jan 20, 2017

This thread brings up a related topic:
What happens when an NFA holder dies? Assuming the heirs don't have an NFA are they obliged to sell the machine guns, etc, immediately? Do the Feds swoop in and confiscate them for "safekeeping"?

wired · Jan 20, 2017

Nobody swoops in. The item (MG, SBR etc ) transfers to the heirs tax free on a form 5. They still have to do a background check etc but there is no $200 tax. Its all part of the probate process. Trust held items are a different story. Those just go to the ( eligible) beneficiary of the trust.

HuckleberryFun · Jan 20, 2017

wired said:
Nobody swoops in. The item (MG, SBR etc ) transfers to the heirs tax free on a form 5. They still have to do a background check etc but there is no $200 tax. Its all part of the probate process. Trust held items are a different story. Those just go to the beneficiary of the trust.

Did not know that. Thank you for taking time to reply.

jbett98 · Jan 20, 2017

When my friend died in '08 his widow refused to deal with the two tax stamped sub machine guns and a suppressor. Five years passed before I convinced her to deal with them.
We hired Dennis Brislawn of NW Gun Law Group to try and save them from the ATF and $15,000 bucks later they were incorporated into a gun trust.

Koda · Jan 20, 2017

And to think anti-gunners hate us for not wanting more gun control laws...
Cause we all know how much all this BS has greatly reduced "gun violence"

HuckleberryFun · Jan 20, 2017

Koda said:
And to think anti-gunners hate us for not wanting more gun control laws...
Cause we all know how much all this BS has greatly reduced "gun violence"

Just this morning gun control laws saved my life. I walked to the end of my driveway to fetch my morning paper and I thought "golly, I'd be dead by now if we didn't have background checks".