I wrote about Silencer Shop’s kiosks a few months ago. Here’s a video that demonstrates how they work. The title of the video is a bit misleading. You don’t set up or buy an NFA firearms trust on the Kiosk, rather you initiate the government-required paperwork–your Form 4, for example– so you can use your […]
Well, somebody’s on the ball. The people at Silencershop.com just announced some new technology they developed that will make complying with ATF 41F much easier for the responsible persons of trusts and entities to submit their fingerprints and photographs. Sometime before July 13th, when ’41F’ finally takes effect, Silencer Shop will ship out 300 fingerprint-scanning […]
Two things interest me about the two quotes below: First, that original material was written in 1764–in Italy–by Cesare Beccaria in his treatise On Crimes and Punishments. Yes, I know. It sounds like something right out of an NRA press release in response to yet another move by the [name your president] to implement by executive order more […]
I don’t think I ever posted a link to the official (or at least, the official looking) ATF 41 F as it appeared in the Federal Register. Here it is. To refresh your memory, ATF 41F affects the firearms trusts (aka gun trusts and NFA trusts). It goes into effect on July 13, 2016. Until […]
I just took a call from a fellow who asked a very good question: Why not use my revocable living trust as a gun trust? The short answer to that question is, “because.” But if that’s too short for you, here’s a longer version I gave him–in bullet points: Guns are not like virtually any […]
Ok, so in my first post on the Empty Chamber Indicator, I referred rather cryptically to the television production Behind the Scenes, indicating I might report back later. Well, it’s later. Yesterday I returned to my office to find a phone message from a man asking me to call Michael Alexander, the producer of Behind the Scenes, […]
Failure to address the new issues raised by Rule 41F will expose owners of firearms trusts to the risk of committing a new kind of accidental felony, i.e. related to a failure to document an RP [responsible person]. Firearms trusts must be reviewed–and likely revised–to clarify the roles of the parties involved and whether or […]
You’re the executor or personal representative of an estate (they’re the same thing, by the way) or a trustee of a trust. The owner of some NFA firearms has died, and you’re left to deal with the aftermath. (Of course, the real “owner” of any NFA arms in a trust is the trustee, but generally, […]
If your sole purpose in purchasing a gun or NFA trust is so you can buy that silencer and avoid the need for your local Chief Law Enforcement Officer’s (CLEO) signature*, then I’m not your guy. As I explain elsewhere on this site, I see gun trusts as accomplishing that purpose and much more, including […]
Below is a slightly revised version of an e-mail I just sent my gun trust clients: We finally know the effective date of the ATF’s new rules regarding gun trusts, responsible persons, and other related matters. That date is Wednesday, July 13, 2016. Once the new rules become effective, gun trust grantor/trustees will be a […]