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The benefit of the Trust in the past was that you didn't need to get the Crown's, aka LEO, permission to submit your paperwork to the NFA. When I was living in Michigan, the Kalamazoo police chief was a total dickbag who didn't believe any non-LEO should have a suppressor or SBR/SBB. So if you were doing an individual Form 1 or 4 you had to go to the assistant DA's office and get him to sign off on it. With a Trust, you skipped all that nonesense. Plus, the Trust eForm 4's were getting approved in less than 90 days, while mail in Form 4's and individuals were taking 9+ months. My first can took 63 days.
The passing of 41f screwed all that up. Now, you have to get everyone on trust that is a trustee has to get fingerprinted as well. But, now you just have to 'notify' your LEO of your submission, you don't have to get their permission. YNOTAZ is correct that every time you add another NFA item to your trust you can remove the trustees then add them back in after the items is officially added in, but something about doing that seems grey.
 
@P[mention]Pscipio03[/mention] my wife works for Sherriff Lamb and he is a fantastic guy, so no worries if he has to sign off on it. Glad I dont live in Maricopa county lol. I think I will stop by on-site shooting here I casagrande and talk to Dan the owner. He is a great guy. Someone had mentioned earlier that some dealers will help set it up for a flat fee.
 
Wrenchman said:
@P@Pscipio03 my wife works for Sherriff Lamb and he is a fantastic guy, so no worries if he has to sign off on it. Glad I dont live in Maricopa county lol. I think I will stop by on-site shooting here I casagrande and talk to Dan the owner. He is a great guy. Someone had mentioned earlier that some dealers will help set it up for a flat fee.

My point really being is- do you need one? There's still some merit to having one (or a firearms Trust in the first place) in that if for some reason you are ever incapacitated to the point that you can't use them anymore, to include legal reasons, the trust technically owns them so they pass on to the trustees. But, if you're not going to list responsible persons (people who could use the items without you being present), because you don't want them getting fingerprinted, and if you don't care that they could go into probate, I'm not sure I see the attractiveness of the trust anymore. As was pointed out earlier, if no one on your trust will really want the things in the first place, it might be a waste of time. I stopped using a trust after 41f was enacted and honestly, I doubt my wife will want any of my SBRs or cans, so let em go into probate. Only person who would passively be interested is my BIL, and he lives in a different state, so no idea how that would impact a transfer.
 
I have my wife and 2 kids that I would like to leave it to. Plus I have a brother that is CO that is an avid shooter and would love to have it. Plus if I have already paid for it and all the taxes on it, I really dont want the goverment getting it back lol
 
Check with an attorney but my understanding is within the a trust you can stipulate that if you are disabled a successor is automatically appointed to assist you in administering the trust. That keeps them off of "responsible party" finger prints etc. until your death or disability.

And I'm with you I don't want any of my property beyond the junk drawer in the kitchen going through probate court, and especially any of my NFA items I can't imagine what will happen with a liberal judge like the guy handling the Flynn case ruling on SBRs, machine guns, SBSs, and Cans. What would it cost to force him to rule according to the law.

I made it easy, I have a successor trustee and beneficiaries with contingencies in case any of the beneficiaries are prohibited for any reason.
 
Wrenchman said:
I have my wife and 2 kids that I would like to leave it to. Plus I have a brother that is CO that is an avid shooter and would love to have it. Plus if I have already paid for it and all the taxes on it, I really dont want the goverment getting it back lol

Then Trust is the best way to go for you.
Plenty of attorneys that can help you out with them- just make sure they specialize in firearms law so that they can answer any questions you might have about it. Lot of ‘plug-n-play’ attorneys that only know how to fill in boilerplates and know absolutely nothing about the actual laws surrounding NFA items in particular.
 
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