Sigfan220 wrote:We are not talking about prescriptions hear. I would find it hard to believe that an officer will do anything if you are in possession of a family members prescription drugs. NFA items are a serious matter and should be treated accordingly. I persionally do not belive suppressors, SBS, SBR, or AOW items should even be considered NFA. I however am not going to be the first person they make an example of for braking the law. I honestly believe that if you got pulled over with your buddies suppressor that you would spend at least one night in jail while they sort things out. I personally would not go to jail over my buddies poor planning. Trusts do not cost any money and do not take that much time to create. There is no reason not to file with a trust. That is just my thinking, that gun owners should be responsible so we do not give ourselves a bad image. The media is looking for any opportunity to make an example of us. We are finally making some forward progress, lets not screw it up.
I agree with not making gun owners look bad. However, dissecting your chain of events, it sounds very non-plausible to me and does not persuade me to make my life more complicated with a trust. Let's count the chain of events in your scenario:
1) You are shooting with your buddy
2) He brought some NFA stuff with him that day
3) he has an accident bad enough he has to go to the hospital, so you agree to take his guns home for him
4) You get pulled over on the way
5) For whatever reason, the cops search your car and find the NFA stuff
6) You get a cop that knows what NFA is
7) The cop arrests you for NFA violation
Unfortunately, I have a job, so the number of days I'm able to go shooting with my buddies is quite limited. Say, 20 days a year at most. Of those 20 days a year, no one in our shooting group has ever gone to the hospital. Not every range trip (although most do!) include NFA. I've never been pulled over going to or coming from the range. I've only ever had my car searched once when I was pulled over (speeding), many years ago, and from what I know today, that was an illegal search. But the search was somewhat cursory and didn't include all my possessions, so #5 may not have been hit above. I can't speak to #6 in that scenario but I've talked to a few cops who have NO idea on NFA stuff - not even that an SBR is anything to be concerned about. Certainly some do, but not all of them by any means. So as we walk the steps above, the percentage chance all of that happens goes down to practically 0. I'm OK with that.
At any rate, that's a pretty far-fetched chain of events to justify a trust. Now with all the additional hassle to file for NFA stuff with a trust, I just don't see the worth. I'm NOT arguing against a trust, because there ARE advantages to them, but there are also disadvantages, and I'm just trying to make sure people choose one for the right reasons, and not FUD.
Filing as an individual is quick and easy and has very few real-world downsides compared to trust or corporate ownership.
YMMV,
Bitter Bastard