Another out of State transfer question

[Paul_R]

All the wiki answers seem to be geared toward bringing guns into California and I want to do the opposite.

I have some firearms I want to transfer to my sons, some handguns and some long guns. They live in Utah, I live in California.

Can I just bring them to Utah and handle the transfer there?

[Librarian]

All the wiki answers seem to be geared toward bringing guns into California and I want to do the opposite.

I have some firearms I want to transfer to my sons, some handguns and some long guns. They live in Utah, I live in California.

Can I just bring them to Utah and handle the transfer there?

At a Utah FFL, yes. It's Federal law that imposes that requirement on any non-inheritance interstate transfer to a non-licensed (non-FFL) person.

[Quiet]

Also note that the inheritance/bequest exemption to the Federal laws requiring the use of a FFL dealer, requires the giver to be dead.

[Paul_R]

Also note that the inheritance/bequest exemption to the Federal laws requiring the use of a FFL dealer, requires the giver to be dead.

Ya think?

[Librarian]

Also note that the inheritance/bequest exemption to the Federal laws requiring the use of a FFL dealer, requires the giver to be dead.

Ya think?

In the past, some folks seem to have confused a 'gift in anticipation of death' with a bequest, through the action of probate or execution of a will.

It's a pardonable supposition, since the net effect is that A would receive a firearm from B in either case, but it doesn't match Federal law.