hand guns from 1909

[splashdown]

Ok, here is the issue.

My buddies wife was given some hand guns from 1909 buy her father, they were originally her grandfathers.

They recently brought them back from Wyoming.

We keep getting conflicting answers to

A. Do the hand guns need to be registered
B. Can the husband take his wife's handguns to the range
C. can the wife give them to the husband as they are married

[FourTenJaeger]

A: I believe so, but not 100% sure
B: Yes
C: Yes.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

On a federal level:

If she and her father are residents of two different States then federal law requires that any firearms transfers between them go through an FFL. To avoid a violation of federal law the father would have to ship the handguns to a California FFL to be transfered to the daughter.

On a California level:

Yes, she needs to register them. Yes, her husband can borrow them for up to 30 days if he has an HSC. Yes, she can transfer them to her husband if he has an HSC and if he sends in the Op-Law handgun registration form to CalDOJ along with $19.

[littlejake]

On a federal level:

If she and her father are residents of two different States then federal law requires that any firearms transfers between them go through an FFL. To avoid a violation of federal law the father would have to ship the handguns to a California FFL to be transfered to the daughter.

On a California level:

Yes, she needs to register them. Yes, her husband can borrow them for up to 30 days if he has an HSC. Yes, she can transfer them to her husband if he has an HSC and if he sends in the Op-Law handgun registration form to CalDOJ along with $19.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

You are correct about intrafamilial transfers only being between generations, like father to son or grandmother to grandson. But a transfer between spouses is not considered an intrafamilial transfer. It's an operation of law transfer. The same form is used to report both intrafamilial and operation of law transfers. It's the "Report of Operation of Law or Intra-Familial Handgun Transaction" form.

http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/pdfs/firearms/forms/oplaw.pdf

[morrcarr67]

On a federal level:

If she and her father are residents of two different States then federal law requires that any firearms transfers between them go through an FFL. To avoid a violation of federal law the father would have to ship the handguns to a California FFL to be transfered to the daughter.

On a California level:

Yes, she needs to register them. Yes, her husband can borrow them for up to 30 days if he has an HSC. Yes, she can transfer them to her husband if he has an HSC and if he sends in the Op-Law handgun registration form to CalDOJ along with $19.

There are questions not asked or answered here.

Did Gramps just pass away? Are these an inheritance? Is she named in the Will? Is Pops working as the Executore of the Estate?