Deceased uncles guns

[209Sanger]

My uncle recently passed and my aunt is trying to figure out his gun collection situation. She wants to make sure all his guns are legal and registered to him before she tries to go about selling some of them. I know you can mail off a form (bof 053 I think) to see what guns are registered to yourself but is there a way for her to send in the same or similar form to find out what guns are registered to him? That specific form all needs to be notarized so I'm not sure if she can fill it out with his info and still get it notarized with her signature.

Thank you for the help



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[Librarian]

Ask her why she thinks your late uncle's guns must be 'registered'.

Hint: that is not required in either Federal or California law - see the wiki: https://web.archive.org/web/20151027...s_registration

If the estate is settled, the person who now owns the guns may sell them PPT; if that happens to be the aunt, she may sell them instead of filing the OPLAW form, which filing would register them to her. But there is no requirement that the guns passing through the estate be registered to anyone prior to the operation of the will or probate.


Now, if any of the guns might be 'assault weapons', registration itself might be irrelevant*, but if she currently lives in CA, she cannot take possession except long enough to get them out of state or have them destroyed or sell them to a dealer with an 'assault weapons permit'.

* They could have been an issue for the uncle had they not been registered, but that isn't a problem for any who might inherit such things in CA - that inheritance is prohibited to CA residents.

[209Sanger]

Thank you for the quick response Librarian. Your wisdom as always is crucial to these forums.

I guess she just wanted to make sure that everything he had was acquired legally before she liquidates his collection but without him being here I guess there is probably no way of knowing for sure.

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[NATEWA]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/blogs/abc-blogs/valuable-wwii-gun-police-buy-back-022155231--abc-news-topstories.html?ref=gs

I would ask her to send a pic of any rifles to make sure they aren't banned by name.

[NATEWA]

I'd ask for a pic of all guns to help her with the value of everything. Sorry to hear about the loss of your uncle. Make sure your aunt doesn't get ripped of by some pawn shop owner who offers her 25% of what it's worth. I hate hearing those stories - Grandma sold her husband's old rifles (m1 garland and carbine) for a couple hundred to the local pawn shop who insists they are old guns of little value.