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cbn620
05-24-2008, 12:06 AM
My father bought a pistol waaaaay back in the day, a long long time ago. Nothing fancy, some would scoff at the quality, but it's got character. Anyways, the gun had been bounced around from person to person during trades in all those years until somehow, miraculously the gun landed back in my dad's possession. He gave it to me when I graduated high school as a gift.

I'm just curious, would this be considered an "unregistered" firearm? And if it is, what can I do to alleviate this issue without getting locked up? I'm no crook, my record's clean as my conscience is, and this gun--though cheap, somewhat of the SNS variety-- I am sure has NEVER been involved in crime. Well, legend has it, it was confiscated from someone and returned to them, but I don't consider that a "crime" crime--it has never been used in a robbery or anything.

What should I do with it? Like I said, I'm no crook and I don't want to be on the wrong end of the law.
RP1911
05-24-2008, 12:10 AM
http://www.ag.ca.gov/firearms/forms/pdf/oplaw.pdf
mymonkeyman
05-24-2008, 01:07 AM
There is no legal requirement that all handguns be registered, rather there are regulations regarding how to legally transfer handguns after a certain date which result in their registration. Depending on when your father come into possession of the gun the most recent time and when did he gave it to you, nothing may be required, a intra-family transfer report may be required, or there may be no way to completely quell the illegality.
cbn620
05-24-2008, 01:26 AM
Thanks for the info fellas. Man, registering it with talk of all these guys' houses getting raided is just scary to me.

Would it be legal to simply disassemble the firearm and keep it as parts? I'm not really interested in firing it, I just want to keep it because the piece has a lot of family history.
mymonkeyman
05-24-2008, 01:37 AM
Thanks for the info fellas. Man, registering it with talk of all these guys' houses getting raided is just scary to me.

Would it be legal to simply disassemble the firearm and keep it as parts? I'm not really interested in firing it, I just want to keep it because the piece has a lot of family history.

Disassembling it still leaves an intact frame, and the frame is the part that is legally a firearm and must be transfered through FFLs.
cbn620
05-24-2008, 01:50 AM
Okay, so let's say I fill out this form, send it in, and it's found that I've accidentally done something illegal. Then what happens?