BarnsBeware
Member
Hey folks, I'm still relatively new here, but I've got a question, and KNOW there is no better place to ask. How can I get a personal transfer here in California from a dear friend in Tennessee? Sounds easy enough, but I've hit snags...
Here's the situation:
He bought a S&W 640 5-shot Centennial way back when from a friend and paid cash for it. He'd like to gift it to me, however, in PRK you can only gift to immediate family or a spouse. I checked with my FFL, and they said that they can't do a private party transfer from someone out of state INTO Kali for various reasons, (which I admittedly forget at the present).
Is there any way I can get this nice and legal like? I'm 24, so there's no way I could say that I "bought it before registration" (must be 21 to buy handguns in PRK). I'd like this as a back-up gun for CCW someday, so God-forbid the SHTF - it could be taken into evidence during an investigation. Everything needs to be on the up-and-up, being that I'm a law-abiding citizen.
My FFL and I came up with an idea, but its sounds kinda like a stretch, especially in that niether of us were familiar with TN and NM laws:
My girlfriend lives in New Mexico, and the owner is her uncle. She has a house there, but she also has residency in Kali. Can her uncle gift it to her, (either through FFL mail TN to NM, or on an in-person RV trip to NM) and then when she visits me in Kali, she private party transfers it to me? I realize this means that she would temporarily own what is supposed to be mine, but honestly and for other reasons, if she just couldn't part with "her" first firearm that was also her uncle's, I'm okay with that.
Would this work? Is there a way I could do it directly from him to me? All private party transfers that do not involve immediate family in CA are required to be done through an FFL...
Thanks!
Here's the situation:
He bought a S&W 640 5-shot Centennial way back when from a friend and paid cash for it. He'd like to gift it to me, however, in PRK you can only gift to immediate family or a spouse. I checked with my FFL, and they said that they can't do a private party transfer from someone out of state INTO Kali for various reasons, (which I admittedly forget at the present).
Is there any way I can get this nice and legal like? I'm 24, so there's no way I could say that I "bought it before registration" (must be 21 to buy handguns in PRK). I'd like this as a back-up gun for CCW someday, so God-forbid the SHTF - it could be taken into evidence during an investigation. Everything needs to be on the up-and-up, being that I'm a law-abiding citizen.
My FFL and I came up with an idea, but its sounds kinda like a stretch, especially in that niether of us were familiar with TN and NM laws:
My girlfriend lives in New Mexico, and the owner is her uncle. She has a house there, but she also has residency in Kali. Can her uncle gift it to her, (either through FFL mail TN to NM, or on an in-person RV trip to NM) and then when she visits me in Kali, she private party transfers it to me? I realize this means that she would temporarily own what is supposed to be mine, but honestly and for other reasons, if she just couldn't part with "her" first firearm that was also her uncle's, I'm okay with that.
Would this work? Is there a way I could do it directly from him to me? All private party transfers that do not involve immediate family in CA are required to be done through an FFL...
Thanks!
