Giving a firearm to a LEO

[Chewy65]

Is there a problem where a person brings a firearm to a station to be surrendered and they permit an officer to keep it for himself? It is not turned into the department. Assume the fireearm is over 50 years old, no money or favor of any kind is exchanged. The weapon is California legal.

[Gun Kraft]

Yes there is a problem. Legally it must be PPT'd at a gun store. If the firearm and recipient are old enough where the recipient could have legally taken possession back in the dark ages of paper DROS or no DROS required then it would be hard to prove that did not happen. But just because you can't prove the law wasn't broken doesn't mean it was not.

[1911su16b870]

^ +1 Meet them at an 01FFL and have them transfer from you to him.

[P5Ret]

In addition to the above, department policy could come into play.

[Quiet]

Giving a firearm to a LEO

Is there a problem where a person brings a firearm to a station to be surrendered and they permit an officer to keep it for himself? It is not turned into the department. Assume the fireearm is over 50 years old, no money or favor of any kind is exchanged. The weapon is California legal.

If ownership is being transferred to the individual LEO, then the transfer must be done through a CA FFL dealer. [PC 27545]
^No exemptions to this.

If ownership is being transferred to the LE agency due to it being surrendered for disposal/destruction, then it can be transferred to the LE agency without the use of a CA FFL dealer. [PC 27850, 27922, and 31100]

[Che762x39]

Is there a problem where a person brings a firearm to a station to be surrendered and they permit an officer to keep it for himself? It is not turned into the department. Assume the fireearm is over 50 years old, no money or favor of any kind is exchanged. The weapon is California legal.

Yes, on many levels.

[edgerly779]

Must go thru ffl. No other options. Leo status in meaningless.

[Chewy65]

Thanks all for the info.

[Hornetsnest]

In addition to the above, department policy could come into play.

THIS

Individual depts policies can differ, but everthing about this "hypothetical" screams a LEO receiving a gift, that is potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars, from a non-family member, while on-duty and on gov property and in performance of his/her official duties.

Any IA or OPR would have an issue with this.