done

[Tank.45]

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[Mssr. Eleganté]

Since you and your father are residents of two different States, Federal law requires that the transfer go through an FFL. You guys need to meet up at a California dealer, or your dad can ship the gun to a California dealer, so that the gun can be DROSed to you. The dealer can charge whatever he wants for this service.

Because the transfer is coming from your parent it is exempt from the safe handgun roster. But not all California dealers know this. There is a thread here on the FFL forum, I believe, that lists a bunch of dealers who are familiar with the process of processing out of state family transfers as roster exempt.

[Librarian]

What i mean by this is since this gun (new manufacture) has never been registered with an FFL in California, can i still legally own this handgun?

Thanks for your responses

Mssr Elegante gave you the correct 'use an ffl for interstate' answer, but I wanted to address this last.

Of course since you would use an FFL in this case, the handgun would go through DROS and be registered to you, but it is NOT required that a handgun have the attribute 'registered' to be legal to own it. (If the transfer happened in CA since 1991, it should have gone through a CA FFL and therefore DROS.)

See also the Calguns Foundation Wiki articles on
Intrafamilial transfer - http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/in...Family_Members

Interstate transfer - http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/in...rms_Interstate

Registration - http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/in...s_registration

[Tank.45]

perfect thanks for the feed back it was exactly what i was looking for!