Originally Posted by
BigWaylon
That's simply not true. A trust may make it easier, but the item will transfer tax free to an heir on a
ATF Form 5 (see check boxes in Section 1) without a trust. Even with a trust, you may need to go through the F5, depending on position heir holds (trustee vs beneficiary) and how the trust is written.
There are several advantages of going the trust route. Avoiding the $200 transfer to your kids when you die isn't one of them (a fact a majority of people don't know when they're getting into the NFA game).
You beat me to it. Lawyers have done a fantastic job of convincing the community that we need to give them our money but the fact of the matter most people don't even realize what a trust can and cannot do or why they may or may not need one. Unfortunately there are people who can't get CLEO sign-off and that's the single biggest reason and that loop hole is going to be closed because everyone is abusing it which has brought WAY too much attention to it. I've got dozens of NFA items registered personally and they all perform exactly as they would if they were on a trust. I rest easy at night knowing that if anything happens to me someone close to me is getting a nice collection of NFA items w/o having to pay a dime.
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