Gifting a firearm out of state. Does this count as one of my 5 transfers a year?

[PFI]

I intend to send one of my handguns out of state to my sister. Will this count as one of my 5 "transactions" a year, or does it not count since its going out of state and cali wont know?

[Quiet]

The transfer of a firearm between siblings residing in different States, must be done through a FFL dealer in the State that the sibling that will receive the firearm resides in. [18 USC 922(a)(3),(5)]

There is no intra-familial or gifting exemption to these Federal laws.

Failure to utilize a FFL equates to Federal felonies for the transferor and for the transferee. [18 USC 924(a)(1)(D)]


If a firearm transfer is not done through a CA FFL dealer or voluntarily reported to CA DOJ BOF, then CA DOJ will not know about the transfer.

There is no method for CA DOJ BOF to count transfers that occur without their knowledge to the infrequent limits that non-CA FFL dealers are limited to within CA.

[PFI]

>If a firearm transfer is not done through a CA FFL dealer or voluntarily reported to CA DOJ BOF, then CA DOJ will not know about the transfer.

>There is no method for CA DOJ BOF to count transfers that occur without their knowledge to the infrequent limits that non-CA FFL dealers are limited to within CA.

Awesome, thats what I needed to know. thanks for the response