by jshuberg on Wed Nov 05, 2014 4:14 pm
It seems to me that Washingtonians may be able to "get around" temporary transfers that are described above by creating a trust, and transferring their firearms into that trust.
With a revocable living trust created to own a persons firearms, any trustee or successor trustee can lawfully be in possession of any NFA weapons it contains. If I make by buddy a trustee of my trust, he can be in possession of any SBRs, Machine guns, etc. the trust owns without completing a BATFE form 4 application to transfer a firearm. The trust still continues to own the firearm, and any trustee is authorized to be in possession of the trusts property. As the grantor of the trust, I can add and remove trustees by simply modifying my trust documents, and then having it re-notarized.
If this process works for title II firearms (NFA), there should be no problem doing the same for title I firearms.
It's an additional pain in the a$$, but there are ways that a person can set things up where they can continue to loan firearms to friends and family. It won't solve all of the problems created by this new law, but it can solve some of the more common ones being described.
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