Tapoutking
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So my wifes father passed away last year and I was given his handguns. How do I go about registering them?
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nalioth
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. . and maybe the city/county (some states are free, while some cities in them are not so free).DaveBeal said:
Tapoutking
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I live in Simi Valley California.
The reason I ask is because I am wanting an AR (308) and may want to sell or trade one or more of them and I thought I would have to register them in order to do so.
The reason I ask is because I am wanting an AR (308) and may want to sell or trade one or more of them and I thought I would have to register them in order to do so.
The Lone Haranguer
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You don't have to transfer or register gifted or inherited guns in California (my home state). I am more curious as to where you will find an AR-10. 
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Shadow 7D
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check out calgun.net
they will know more about the laws
glad I left when I did, I'd be a felon right now, cause I gots mags and no rifle for them.... stupid
they will know more about the laws
glad I left when I did, I'd be a felon right now, cause I gots mags and no rifle for them.... stupid
atlctyslkr
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Move to a state where you don't have to worry about it. There are plenty to choose from and they have lower taxes than the People's Republic of California.
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I also recommend checking out CalGuns, and there seem to be a number of potential issues.
[1] Did your father-in-law also live in California? If not, it raises a possible issue of interstate transfer of a firearm. And that's a potential issue under federal law.
[2] There are more relaxed interstate transfer rules in the case of a firearm acquired by bequest or intestate succession. But these can be complicate issues. In the case of intestate succession (when someone dies without a will), property goes only to specific relatives defined by applicable state law, and in-laws are generally not included in the chain of secession. And in acquisition by bequest means there needs to be a will, the will admitted to probate in court, and executor qualified and the property specifically identified in the will as going to the person who has received it. Often these formalities aren't observed if there's not a lot of property.
[3] A gift to a son-in-law is not an interfamilial transfer under California law and so must still go through an FFL. Only interfamilial transfers (from parent/grandparent to child/grandchild or vice versa) don't require an FFL.
[1] Did your father-in-law also live in California? If not, it raises a possible issue of interstate transfer of a firearm. And that's a potential issue under federal law.
[2] There are more relaxed interstate transfer rules in the case of a firearm acquired by bequest or intestate succession. But these can be complicate issues. In the case of intestate succession (when someone dies without a will), property goes only to specific relatives defined by applicable state law, and in-laws are generally not included in the chain of secession. And in acquisition by bequest means there needs to be a will, the will admitted to probate in court, and executor qualified and the property specifically identified in the will as going to the person who has received it. Often these formalities aren't observed if there's not a lot of property.
[3] A gift to a son-in-law is not an interfamilial transfer under California law and so must still go through an FFL. Only interfamilial transfers (from parent/grandparent to child/grandchild or vice versa) don't require an FFL.
The Bushmaster
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Register? In the USSR of C? Why??!!?? I never did when I lived there (left in 2006 never to return).
Gun registry is a very scary thought....
Registering guns is one of the first steps towards taking our guns... When the Nazi's invaded countries during WWII they would look up the gun registries and go invade those people's homes. Registries also led to gun confiscations in cuba and several other countries...
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=187049
Registering guns is one of the first steps towards taking our guns... When the Nazi's invaded countries during WWII they would look up the gun registries and go invade those people's homes. Registries also led to gun confiscations in cuba and several other countries...
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=187049
Quiet
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Tapoutking said:
Your wife will need to send in a Report of Operation of Law or Intra-Familial Handgun Transaction with $19 to CA DOJ BOF.
Since, you are not "immediate family" to your father-in-law, your wife will need to "register" her father's handguns.
Penal Code 12078
(c)(1) Subdivision (d) of Section 12072 shall not apply to the infrequent transfer of a firearm that is not a handgun by gift, bequest, intestate succession, or other means by one individual to another if both individuals are members of the same immediate family.
(2) Subdivision (d) of Section 12072 shall not apply to the infrequent transfer of a handgun by gift, bequest, intestate succession, or other means by one individual to another if both individuals are members of the same immediate family and all of the following conditions are met:
(A) The person to whom the firearm is transferred shall, within 30 days of taking possession of the firearm, forward by prepaid mail or deliver in person to the Department of Justice, a report that includes information concerning the individual taking possession of the firearm, how title was obtained and from whom, and a description of the firearm in question. The report forms that individuals complete pursuant to this paragraph shall be provided to them by the Department of Justice.
(B) The person taking title to the firearm shall first obtain a basic firearms safety certificate. If taking possession on or after January 1, 2003, the person taking title to the firearm shall first obtain a handgun safety certificate.
(C) The person receiving the firearm is 18 years of age or older.
(3) As used in this subdivision, "immediate family member" means any one of the following relationships:
(A) Parent and child.
(B) Grandparent and grandchild.
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