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The Lone Ranger

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  1. In order to utilize a F-10, the museum needs to be run by the government. Any internet/gun shop commentary on funding sources, etc. are in error. See 27 CFR 479.104 ("governmental entities"). Same for the captured enemy equipment certificates. Commonly cited on the web as defacto registration, but to date I have not been able to get anyone claiming that to cite a verifiable example and the process is not in law or regulation anywhere. Also inquired with two real life gun lawyers (Barnes & Halbrook) who at that time had not seen any such examples. I have never seen anything that connected War Dept forms issued in overseas regions with Treasury registration in the US. This myth may be somewhat rooted in truth due to an E TN appeals court case in the 70s (McKeehan) where firearms brought back and subsequently transferred paperless were protected from confiscation. That concept is not being applied to anyone else.
  2. My recollection of KS law is that around 2008 (which is subject to being way wrong) they went from nothing to anything allowed by adding an exemption to the statute for items registered with the federal gov. If that's accurate, then the burden is on the possessor and producing the form to state/county/local LE might save someone an unenjoyable experience of being arrested and/or having their stuff pinched then not charged after producing the proof.
  3. Correct - 27 CFR 478.28 - bear in mind if you are one of the legion that registered your stuff to a trust, you will then have to transfer the firearm(s) from trust to yourself/LLC/Corp that holds the 03 FFL.
  4. Yes, the correct thing to do is VOID the F10 since no MG existed to register and whoever creates the MG to register it then transfer. All the LEA has to do is send a letter in requesting the void.
  5. This is not gunsmithing - it is manufacturing. The person building the MG needs to register it and transfer. There is no provision in existing law to build to fill someone else's registration. If you are a hunter it's the same concept as filling a deer permit.
  6. Actually the person building it should register it then transfer to the agency unless someone from the agency is present when the work is done. The F10 is for firearms that already exist but are not registered. The agency filed a bogus form and then the builder will compound things by building/not registering and doing a paperless transfer. Either the circumstances were not communicated properly or you got an employee who is not familiar with the laws to answer your question.
  7. This is correct - but the OP did not indicate in his post that the firearm was registered to a separate entity from the business which would change the answer substantially; just that the seller held an FFL and paid SOT and most of us opted not to read more into it. An FFL/SOT can transfer a firearm tax free to another SOT payer and it matters not what form was used to transfer it in. Another truism: looking at the form is the only way to "really" know. Sometimes the dealers themselves don't understand their LLC or corporation is not them.
  8. The OP indicated the seller holds an FFL and pays SOT - hence the F3. Transfers are determined by current circumstances; the previous transfer manner is not binding on the next. Most firearms bounce back and forth from 3,4, and sometimes 5 in their life. Some rare ducks even have 10s in their history (came back out into commerce prior to April, 1974).
  9. jbntex gave you great info. Given you want it to land in a trust, not much gain in getting the collector's license. Your status as a collector cannot be "loaned" to a trust so you don't even get the benefit of skipping the 5320.20 (permission slip) to move it interstate. Couple of other minor points from your questions - no prints are collected on a C&R license application so no need to spend the time and to answer your question about immediate shipping - no. Some dealers engage in shortcuts like not waiting for the transfer to be approved and claim an exemption for being a dealer but it's not a good idea, especially with a high $ item. It can be a painful flush if they get caught. Wait the extra few days (e-forms) or weeks (paper) for the F3 to be processed.
  10. SAF gave us Alan Gura and the world was a better place. GOA is burning cash trying to undo NRA's advocacy of allowing bureaucracies write legislation (NICE ONE WAYNE). NRA aggressively tried to scuttle Heller. Yes, there has been some good but they are first and foremost Swamp Dwellers - getting rich off big government, other people's money, and have no intention of allowing that to change. If you don't understand and accept that going in, eventually your feelings get hurt unless you have good blinders.
  11. That's what would be expected. It's somewhat unusual for modern firearms to be floating unregistered or in F10 purgatory.
  12. The disposing agency shouldn't be the one providing the letter and the agency that does provide the letter needs to articulate the need for a number higher than one. If you are bored enough to read Ruling 2002-5, note there is a discrepancy between the summary and actual text. Until summer 2008, NFA Branch went by the summary but switched to the text which specifies justification for more than one.
  13. Probably registered; Forms hidden in a cabinet or trashed shortly after purchase.
  14. A F5 won't work - it needs a birth certificate first. The only route for that on an unregistered is a F10 and those don't go into commerce since 1974 so the F5 gets disapproved. Cops can use your torch, no problem there. No need for you to log them in since you are not taking control of them (and have no reason or avenue to do so). The LE agency notifying ATF of destroying unregistered firearms is pointless since ATF has no record of them. If the guns are registered, the agency can notify or not, it's optional but may save future generations a panic attack thinking their machineguns were stolen. Yeah, cutting up USG loaner guns not good for the PD so it might be worth asking what they are, where they came from. Cops are aces at losing forms. M16s or M14s should make them a bit cautious about cutting. Inquiring by serial # is the most efficient way and if registered getting a copy should not be difficult. Last I knew, there was a waiting list and if an agency opted to dispose, they would get directions from the same state property office that hooked them up on where to send them.
  15. the posted regulation is one that allows for a successor for the existing term of the SOT - same is allowable for an FFL - it does not transfer registration to the successor but rather allows cleaning up after a business owner passes. At the end of that term, if the successor wants to stay in business, a new license SOT is required. SOT is brutal in that regard. If you die May 31, your successor has 30 days of SOT time. I may be misreading or missing something in your post, but I don't think FFL/SOT successorship solves your question as you were looking for inheritance potential?
  16. You need to pay SOT to acquire - which applies to anyone who would stand to inherit.
  17. Compliments of congress in 1968. If the swamp repeals it, it's gone. All you need is another political party to garner a majority in both chambers and win the presidency - and strike quickly because once the third party gets a taste of wealth and power you will need a fourth.
  18. 99-308.... 99th congress law 308 Firearm Owner's Protection Act / 18 USC 922(o) post 86 sample.
  19. grasshopper and the handbook are correct - C&R firearm can go direct from a nonlicensee; trust, LLC, corporation, or natural person does not change anything. 18 USC 922(a)(2)(A) if you want to get specific.
  20. Once the insults begin, it's time for me to bow out. You didn't like my answer - neither did I. Most of us would like a never ending supply of new transferrable MGs but that isn't reality. "Replacement" MGs need to be registered. If you want to pretend you are Hatton Industries and it's 1985 while you are building a paperless 240 today or are confident in your ability to convince a jury a sliver of metal with a removed serial # is a machinegun while the 24 pound piece of metal next to it that looks and acts like a machinegun is just cosmetics and you are not really building anything, knock yourself out - risk vs reward. For those interested, here is the statute and referenced regulation in its entirety. Each reader can decide if I am "twisting" anything. I'm too lazy to copy the statutes about removing serial numbers. 18 USC 922(k) and 26 USC 5861(g) §5841. Registration of firearms (a) Central registry The Secretary shall maintain a central registry of all firearms in the United States which are not in the possession or under the control of the United States. This registry shall be known as the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. The registry shall include— (1) identification of the firearm; (2) date of registration; and (3) identification and address of person entitled to possession of the firearm. (b) By whom registered Each manufacturer, importer, and maker shall register each firearm he manufactures, imports, or makes. Each firearm transferred shall be registered to the transferee by the transferor. (c) How registered Each manufacturer shall notify the Secretary of the manufacture of a firearm in such manner as may by regulations be prescribed and such notification shall effect the registration of the firearm required by this section. Each importer, maker, and transferor of a firearm shall, prior to importing, making, or transferring a firearm, obtain authorization in such manner as required by this chapter or regulations issued thereunder to import, make, or transfer the firearm, and such authorization shall effect the registration of the firearm required by this section. (d) Firearms registered on effective date of this Act A person shown as possessing a firearm by the records maintained by the Secretary pursuant to the National Firearms Act in force on the day immediately prior to the effective date of the National Firearms Act of 1968 1 shall be considered to have registered under this section the firearms in his possession which are disclosed by that record as being in his possession. (e) Proof of registration A person possessing a firearm registered as required by this section shall retain proof of registration which shall be made available to the Secretary upon request. § 479.103 Registration of firearms manufactured. Each manufacturer qualified under this part shall file with the Director an accurate notice on Form 2 (Firearms), Notice of Firearms Manufactured or Imported, executed under the penalties of perjury, to show his manufacture of firearms. The notice shall set forth the name and address of the manufacturer, identify his special (occupational) tax stamp and Federal firearms license, and show the date of manufacture, the type, model, length of barrel, overall length, caliber, gauge or size, serial numbers, and other marks of identification of the firearms he manufactures, and the place where the manufactured firearms will be kept. All firearms manufactured by him during a single day shall be included on one notice, Form 2 (Firearms), filed by the manufacturer no later than the close of the next business day. The manufacturer shall prepare the notice, Form 2 (Firearms), in duplicate, file the original notice as prescribed herein and keep the copy with the records required by subpart I of this part at the premises covered by his special (occupational) tax stamp. Receipt of the notice, Form 2 (Firearms), by the Director shall effectuate the registration of the firearms listed on that notice. The requirements of this part relating to the transfer of a firearm are applicable to transfers by qualified manufacturers.
  21. You may need someone smarter than me to explain better - I'm not the sharpest pencil in the cup. If it exists, it needs to be registered. 1 MG, you need one registration 2 MGs, you need two registrations and so on. If you are at a point trying to claim an exemption to registering based on the angle that MG#1 isn't an MG any more and MG#2 is actually MG#1 because the serial # was cut off MG#1 and placed on MG#2, I am lost, cannot connect that to anything in the book, and can only see a potentially uncomfortable outcome. I doubt it will work any better next time around but someone may well do it. Money brings out the best in some of us. I'm more bookworm than mechanic or engineer, so could be way off.
  22. RE: "unregistered".... when a new MG was built to replace the M-10 type (or whatever lower $ firearm), those firearms were never registered as required (except if built by or on behalf of the USG with a variance to skip the F2 and F5). When the new builds were transferred, they were done with no paper (no F2, so there could be no F3/F4 and if they had been registered they would have been post 86). The cheaper item was transferred on paper but never went anywhere. So - you had a MG that was built, never registered, and transferred without approval combined with an approved transfer application for a smashed/cut or otherwise never delivered MG. You predate my experience. I am older than ATF but not by much, having to rely on old hands relating experiences and reading documents from earlier time periods for historical context. My favorites are the DEWAT rulings (55-590 comes to mind but I don't think it was the only one) and the Federal Firearms Act (1938) which seemed to be more focused on violent criminals than the GCA... but as with most things government, growth always comes I am not convinced more is better. Socialist/communist/giant government philosophy is based in part on the individual being too inept to conduct themselves. My question has always been if that is the case, how does granting access to unlimited power and money make a portion of those inept people smart? Not painting with a broad brush - I have found government employees to be a reflection of society in general - some saints, some demons, most in between the extremes - same to be said for firearms collectors and industry. I have taken on the X-Files operating procedure: "trust no one".
  23. Mr. Todd, There was at least one internet personality claiming to be a firearm law expert who stated no violations were committed by anyone, that there were only minor modifications made to existing firearms. To the best of my knowledge, that claim was false and despite all the smoke, it was simply a fraud case. I forget the duration of the trial - something like 2-3 weeks and the jury said "guilty" in roughly the time it took them to eat lunch. There were several charges associated with that case, but I cannot list them per defendant. A few to pick from: false statements/records, possession of unregistered, transfer in violation of the act come to mind quickly - and would not all necessarily apply to all involved parties. I also won't claim to be wholly knowledgeable of every firearm involved, but for the ones I am familiar with the question of modification or redesign was not an issue. The only "modification" made to any MG was removing the serial # (another charge to add to the previous list). There were two separate MGs, each having mass and occupying space; one registered, one unregistered - the unregistered MG being transferred under the false pretense of being the registered MG. The argument that the serial number is the MG while the other _ pounds of steel surrounding it is just decoration doesn't pass the proverbial "straight face test". In the statutes, serial numbers are not registered, firearms are - the serial is only a means of identifying a unique item. I can cut a serial # off a $1 bill and integrate it into a $100 bill I made at home or rivet a Volkswagen VIN tag onto a "Audi" built in my garage. The recipient of either would not be well served nor happy upon discovery of their origin.
  24. Fair point - I should have added a rationale to the post rather than just the end result. Simply put, you have to register everything that is built. For all the smoke that was blown on the internet about this case it was simply selling unregistered MGs. Every lawfully possessed MG (in public use) is tethered to a registration. When you have two MGs, there should be two registrations. No provision for sharing or transferring a registration from one gun to another. I did not take the OP as a troll; I was hesitant to reply briefly but then there are new people coming on board every day and it seemed like an honest question about a potentially hazardous topic. There are loads of internet jackasses and I can feel myself slipping into the mold sometimes as I get older and crankier. Thought I'd try being nice for a change.
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