Interfamilial transfer from trust?

[Librarian]

I'm not arguing this point but am trying to understand. I agree that the law doesn't require a firearm to be registered in order to sell it. But doesn't the law require that any firearm that changes hands, even through inheritance/trust, has to be registered to the new owner? Isn't that basically what the OPLAW does?

I'm helping a widow with this issue and my DOJ rep said to do the OPLAW transfer before she sells them. That doesn't make it law, but I have generally found her to be pretty accurate in her advise. From a practical perspective, I suspect DOJ would not really care; they want to know where its going more than where its been or how it got there. And if sold out of state via GB, DOJ would never know.

I have another question but its probably simpler to ask it in a separate post.

You are correct; supposed to file the paper.

In the case of the OP, the likely transfer in 2017 should have had that paper then.

But not having the gun(s) associated with a seller in CA's AFS is not a barrier (in 2022) to selling.

I think we can infer from the enforcement (or, lack of it) that CA has chosen to concern itself with the new owner records.