Was thinking of getting an NFA tax stamp later making this issue a non-issue for me personally, but this pistol brace debacle is ridiculous, as well as the whole SBR thing. I'm relatively new to gun ownership and it's been a wild ride reading all about gun laws/gun trusts just because I was thinking of putting a vertical fore-grip on a pistol. The justification for the law was just that so many criminals were using these types of guns so they should be more regulated
This is quite an annoyance. I've also heard different things about gun trusts. Someone told me anyone who is a trustee must also pay a $200 tax, while I've also heard that only the settlor has to pay the $200 to transfer it to the gun trust, and then other trustees must still give fingerprint/documents in. Anyway I'm holding off on all that for now. What are our chances of ever overturning the National Firearms Act ?
Overturning the NFA? Slim to none in my lifetime and I am barely middle aged.
As for your last. The trust pays the tax stamp (you if you are the trust creator). None of the members of the trust do. If people other than the trust creator/controller is on the trust when submitted to the ATF, then yes their finger prints and pictures are included with the form paperwork for building or transferring the NFA item.
You may add people to the trust after the tax stamp is approved without doing that. However if you add items to the trust later, those people on the trust will need fingerprints and photos submitted. Or they need to be removed (revoked) from the trust and cannot legally access the NFA firearm(s). Then once the next item is approved for the trust, you add them back in.
Considering the 5-10 month approval time, that’s a lot of time without the former trust members having legal access unless it is very rare anything gets added to it.
Enter the growing popularity of “single shot” trusts. The trust is for only one NFA item. Once approved you add the members to the trust you’d like to. Want a new NFA item, get a new trust.
That’s the route I went. Not a fuzzy chance in hell my wife is going to put up with all this dick dance of paperwork to add her and remove her let alone submitting fingerprints and pictures every so often. She is annoyed enough I own some NFA items. Way easier just to do single shot trusts and later I’ll get some trust member paperwork together and get her to sign it and notarized and done. I want another item, I just need to get another form signed and notarized. Same with my kids when they are legally old enough. I want them to be able to have access, but don’t want to juggle fingerprints and pictures for them or revoking and adding access and “aww Dad, I was hoping to use the can for hunting this week. What do you mean you pulled me off the trust so you could buy another suppressor?”
It takes while to wrap your head around it all.