First thing's first. Are you going to do a trust or acquire stamps as an individual? There are pros and cons to each.
The trust will require a lawyer to be set up which will be an additional fee up front. You can have family members on the trust as well as add/remove them in the future so your items can be passed down. Anyone listed in the trust will need to sign as a partner.
If you're going to apply for the stamp as an individual then you just need a local head of law enforcement like chief of police to sign your form. Any officer appointed by the chief can sign in lieu of him/her, but they need to include that info on the form as well as their own position/rank.
I did all my stamps as an individual when i was a bachelor. As a father now I wished I had gotten a trust. It's never too late to do a trust, but you'll have to pay the $200 stamp/transfer fee for each item you transfer from yourself (individual) to the trust should you ever change your mind.
As far as which caliber; 300 blk is a lot of fun to shoot subs suppressed but does get expensive. A short 8" barrel is very doable for 300 blk too. 5.56 needs a 10.5" barrel or longer. I had a 7.5" pistol that had ejection issues from time to time. A rubber o-ring on the ejector spring helped the problem, but I still didn't like needing to use a rubber band aid to make my rifle work right. 5.56 SBRs really really blast the ear drums. If I'm standing under a roof I feel like it rattles my teeth even when I'm wearing double hearing protection.
can't speak for 6.8
Be honest with yourself, if you're just going to plink from time to time and leave the gun setup in your house as a home defense go-to for 99.9% of it's life then get the 300blk. If you're going to run the heck out of the rifle, take classes, shoot 10,000 rounds/year type of use then get the 5.56
Last edited by matemike; 04-07-18 at 06:12.
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