Unregistered P238

[dely]

[G-forceJunkie]

Father to son transfers are legal and before 2014 required no paperwork. Nothing needs to be registered. Noting needs to be registered to you to sell it. Just go do a PPT if you want to sell it, you are the legal owner. For the record, even if you and your dad did do an illegal transfer, the statute of limitations is 3 years, so if it happened over 3 years ago, you can't be prosecuted for anyways.
The only issues you could come across is if you dad gave you a stolen gun, or a gun that is considered an Assault Weapon by California. If you got any military style guns, handguns with the magazine outside the hand grip, etc. do some research to see what they are.

[Librarian]

Father to son transfers are legal and before 2014 required no paperwork.

A refinement: before 2014, long gun transfers, parent to child where both were CA residents, required no paper. Handgun transfers between the same parties have needed paper since 1990-1991.

[dely]

[G-forceJunkie]

No way to verify it. If your not in a hurry, you could voluntarily register it in your name first. It is $19 and could take an unknown number of months to hear back. 6-9 months would not suprise me. If a gun comes up stolen during a PPT, the cops are going to take it, the buyer is naturally going to want his money back. I'm sure you will get questioned but how you came into posession of it any inquirie should end with "My deceased father gave it to me 10 years ago."

[pacrat]

Thank you for your replies, that seems much more straight forward that I expected.

As far as the handgun transfer being after the paper requirements, even in that case I’d be past the 3 year statute of limitations, right?

I think it’s extremely unlikely I’d have been given a stolen gun, but any way to verify this? What would happen if I attempted to sell via ppt and it was flagged as stolen?

The bolded question in quote above is a true and accurate statement.

If you want to keep it/them without registering, no criminal liability attaches. And you are free to do so. Same goes, if you decide the sell any of them.

[beerman]

Be aware that if you get caught with a handgun in your car that’s registered to you, it’s a minor offense. Get caught with an unregistered gun, it’s a felony.. bye bye gun rights.

[Librarian]

Be aware that if you get caught with a handgun in your car that’s registered to you, it’s a minor offense. Get caught with an unregistered gun, it’s a felony.. bye bye gun rights.

... presuming it is not being correctly transported, unloaded in a locked case.

And, that's 'found in the CA AFS database' registered - essentially impossible for out of state visitors, unless they might be former residents of CA.

[The Gleam]

Prove it's not. I don't have to prove it is.

[TurboChrisB]

Prove it's not. I don't have to prove it is.

No what he meant (or should have said) was, if you're caught illegally carrying a gun....it's a felony if it's not registered to you....misdemeanor if it's in your name.

[The Gleam]

No what he meant (or should have said) was, if you're caught illegally carrying a gun....it's a felony if it's not registered to you....misdemeanor if it's in your name.

My comment still stands.

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[12pewpew]

I could be completely wrong on this but I thought cops couldn't just look up who a gun is registered to on the spot. They can only determine if it's stolen or not.

[Dan_Eastvale]

I suspect there are far more Californians who have "inherited" handguns without any paperwok than most states.

Based on population

[TurboChrisB]

My comment still stands.

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Well if you're thinking that they have to prove it's not yours....then you'd be wrong.

[P5Ret]

I could be completely wrong on this but I thought cops couldn't just look up who a gun is registered to on the spot. They can only determine if it's stolen or not.

Yep you are completely wrong. They can run the serial and get a full AFS history.