Silly gun question

[Guest]

So I know I should know this but somehow confused myself and the answer slipped my mind.

The question is, if I bought a rifle and decided to give it to my mother, sister, stepdad, aunt, cousin, so on and so on, do I need to do a FFL transfer. As far as I know, the FFL transfers protect the seller from transfering the rifle to a prohibited firearms owner. Obviously a family member of mine will not recieve the rifle if they have a criminal history. I already know the laws associated with handguns. Would my name be under this rifle? From what I understand, long guns have no owner registration record, right?

[Bowser]

For guns it goes Grandparent > parent > you. Your grandparents can give you guns. Do if you wanted to give a gun to your sibling, it would have to go through a grandparent or parent and then they have to give it to your sibling. To transfer handguns, you need to fill out some form and send in $19 I believe.

[Dr Rockso]

Unless it's a long gun 50+ years old (no paperwork required) you either have to do a PPT or an interfamilial transfer (which only works with certain 'immediate family' relationships), IIRC.

[low94noma]

Thanks for the info! As for me being the rifle owner, is this rifle in my name? As I understand, no long gun is in anyhones name unless requested.

[tgriffin]

Thanks for the info! As for me being the rifle owner, is this rifle in my name? As I understand, no long gun is in anyhones name unless requested.

Technically....theoretically.....there should be no record of that longgun belonging to you after 48 hours with the CA DOJ. I wouldnt want to test the theory. Information has a funny way of getting grep'ed and parsed into databases. I'm sure that there will also be some record of it in a FFL's bound book somewhere as well.

Cutting the crap... would you probably get away with it if you just gave it to your relative? Probably. Is it recommended? Hell no. Risk is not equal to reward.

[low94noma]

Technically....theoretically.....there should be no record of that longgun belonging to you after 48 hours with the CA DOJ. I wouldnt want to test the theory. Information has a funny way of getting grep'ed and parsed into databases. I'm sure that there will also be some record of it in a FFL's bound book somewhere as well.

Cutting the crap... would you probably get away with it if you just gave it to your relative? Probably. Is it recommended? Hell no. Risk is not equal to reward.

Absolutely understandable. Definitely not worth the risk if you play it by the book. So much for a surprise birthday present, lol. Although, I can always give it to him and then PPT after. I am sure information is somewhere. Maybe my social security number is with it too on some lowlifes desk, doh!