Leaving guns to a friend

[Maddawg46]

I set up a will and leave my guns to my friend. We are both California residents. Not family so that inter-family form won't work. Wonder how you would do that? I'm talking handguns and rifles.

[ElDub1950]

Confusing question. Are you leaving your guns to a friend in your will? Or are you going to transfer them to him ahead of time?

If you're doing it in your will there's no transfer form. It's just a matter of your chosen executor of your estate, doing what you directed, in your will. (legal details and registration involved so just make sure your will is done correctly)

If you're giving them to him ahead of time, it's a normal PPT. Including all the normal restrictions: He's allowed to own guns; none of them are AWs under the new laws, etc etc. They can all be done in a single DROS.

[Maddawg46]

It would be in a Will or Living Trust. So me and my wife would be croaked! Lol. I was going to do one of those online wills, but I may pay the fee and have a lawyer do it.

[Librarian]

Unless going to parent/child/grandparent/grandchild, CA requires the transfer to go through an FFL; the executor of the estate typically would do a PPT.