Spoon Transfer - Father to Son in California?

[hcoles]

I'd like to tap into the gun experts here.

I'm in the process of unpacking guns my dad is giving me. He is not able to use them anymore due to being in skilled nursing for the foreseeable future.
Both he and I are CA residents.

It looks like all the guns are handguns. What do I need to do to enable selling the guns for him? I can put a list here with some pictures a bit later after I dig into the boxes.

One of the pistols is a German air pistol made with a 4.5 Kal marking. On the barrel is Wiehrauch. Looks like it could be a HW70.

Thanks.

[Tobra]

You may be able to do it by paying a fee to a dealer to do the paperwork for you. If any of them are not on the acceptable list for California, they are not transferrable. I would sell them out of state before I would do that. Can't recall if this the deal now, or if it is in effect January 1

[tabs]

Read the CA DOJ regs.

As far as I know family transfers are acceptable on anything that is or was permissible. If the spoon is over 50 years old by serial # it is legal. A dealer can sell out of state on non CA acceptable spoons, he can sell on consignment and private parties may sell them.



What the dealer may not do is sell a firearm that he owns that is not acceptable in the state to a citizen of CA..

Mostly what CA has done is to use the Saturday Night Special quality laws as a means to stymie guns sales in CA by tieing a tin can around the tails of dealers with the regs.. It was and is a bait and switch law...So their do gooder law was and is used to fk the citizens of CA.

It has been my experience that dealers who fk around with the laws do not last long...if they are seriously in business they do not fk around...they never have..

The manager of Fowlers Sport Center back in the early 80's told me about their sellin a handgun to a woman who upon waiting the 2 week waiting period came to pick it up. In the store she put it in her mouth, the store declined to give her the handgun.

[vash]

transferring a firearm from a parent to a child is pretty straightfoward.

i got one, and it (the process) was less than perfect. i got it from my brother which is not allowed. unknowingly, i still filled out the paperwork and sent it in. somebody over there must have just glossed over it. my Sig226 is now a registered firearm here in this great state. the high cap mags..not so much.

look up the CA DOJ regs. it's VERY straight forward. you basically fill out a form.

no FFL guy needed in the process.

[Tobra]

All that stuff is scheduled to become much more complicated.

[Brando]

It used to be that intrafamilial transfers were A-OK and required no paperwork, so long as the receiving party was not legally prohibited from owning/possessing a firearm.

Now I believe you have to do the transfer just as you would if the receiving party were actually purchasing it. Go to a dealer, receiving party does the background check/DROS ($0 purchase price, pay all admin/filing/DROS fees). If a handgun, receiving party must have a valid Handgun Safety Certificate. Not sure if the 10-day waiting period applies.

As Tobra says, this state is looking to make it even more complicated, trying to find ways to ensure firearms cannot be passed on when the owner dies, preventing certain firearms from being transferable (Registered Assault Weapons, Off-List owner-built firearms) and even requiring a background check/DROS for ammo purchases/transfers.

[vash]

cut and paste from CA DOJ:

The infrequent transfer of firearms between immediate family members is exempt
from the law requiring PPTs to be conducted through a licensed firearms dealer .
For purposes of this exemption, “immediate family member” means parent and
child, and grandparent and grandchild but does not include brothers or sisters .
(Pen . Code, § 16720 .) The transferee must also comply with the Firearm Safety
Certificate requirement described below, prior to taking possession of the firearm .
Within 30 days of the transfer, the transferee must also submit a report of the
transaction to the DOJ . Download the form (Report of Operation of Law or Intra-
Familial Firearm Transaction BOF 4544A) from the DOJ website at

[911boost]

Why would you even tell anyone or post this?

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by 911boost

Why would you even tell anyone or post this?

'Cause he's probably taking them boating on the Chesapeake....and stuff happens

[red-beard]

When reading threads like this, all I can say is...

Thanks god I'm in Texas!