Need some clarification

[Thenewguyishere]

When I had my 18 birthday my grandfather left me one if his old revolvers as a gift at the time we both live in Oregon, not sure how the gun laws worked with intra familal transfers worked in oregon, never reported it there never knew I had too(I was younger and dumber), I moved to Cali right after my 18 birthday and brought it with me, been sitting at a family members house since I've been here which was 2004, now I haven't registered it here because I was afraid I did something wrong taking possession of the gun in Oregon and not doing any paper work if I even needed to since it was a family member, from what I know my grandmother bought it for my grandfather back in the 70's and it's still registred in Cali, did I commit a crime bringing it here or can I still fill out a form here or is it to late and I should just ship it back to my grandfather in washington

[SMR510]

Uh, you got yourself in a bit of a pickle by waiting so long...

I do not know about Oregon law so I cant be much assistance there. If the transfer was done legally in Oregon you would have needed to fill out a form and send it and $19 to the DOJ to report that you moved here with the gun. At this point that will no longer work because you are supposed to do that within I believe it is 60 days of moving into the state, obviously it has been more like 8 years.

There are provisions in CA law for intrafamiliar transfers that do allow you to receive a handgun as a gift from anyone directly above or below you in your family tree (father to son, grandfather to son, etc but not brother to brother or cousin to cousin, etc). The problem is that your grandfather lives in another state and technically the transaction would need to go through a FFL simply because the gun is moving from one state to another.


What should you do? I am not exactly sure, maybe someone will have some insight into a situation similar to this one and can give you some solid advice. Aside from that, a phone call to the DOJ would probably clear this up...Just tell them you were not aware of the need to register your handgun when you moved here and you would like to know what you should do, I dont think they will give you any trouble. Worst case is you can send it back to your grandfather and have him send it and a note stating that he is gifting it to you and no money has exchanged hands to your local FFL and you can do a transfer...The bad part is that it will probably cost you $100 or more between shipping it twice and the transfer fees. Alternatively if he was going to visit you here you could bring it to a FFL and avoid the shipping but check with your FFL first because some are not willing to do a FTF transfer like this even though it is perfectly legal.

[Beelzy]

Fill out self registration form and send with $19 to the DOJ.....then it is yours legally.