I’m not trying to pick a fight here, but …
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SHIVAN
I'd venture to say that for every trust set up as an "NFA conduit" that might have some sort of "error", there are probably at least 10 or more that have no errors and no minors, felons or illegal aliens as trustees. The software methodolgy is not intended to replace a lawyer, or good legal advice, and I'd venture that if you follow their simple instructions it will probably hold up under scrutiny.
When I drive my car, the odds are high that I will not be involved in an accident, so I probably don’t need to wear my seat belt.
When I leave the house, odds are that no one will try to burgle it, so I probably don’t need to lock my doors.
My house is unlikely to burn down, so insuring it is probably a waste of money.
If the cost of failure is small – it probably won’t rain today, so I’ll leave my raincoat at home – then relying on something to “probably” not happen is fine. But speaking personally, if the cost of failure is significant, then I’m not going to rely on something “probably” not happening. So I wear seat belts, keep my doors locked, and pay my insurance premiums.
There “probably” won’t be a problem with the trust that you/your gun dealer/the plumber/some guy at a gun show prepared, but if there is, you’re screwed. More to the point, the problem may not be discovered until after you’re dead. Whatcha gonna do then?
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Originally Posted by
SHIVAN
Anyhow, we take chances in everything we do in life. Even if we decide to seek the advice of a lawyer to draft an NFA conduit like the revocable living trust, who is to know for sure that the lawyer brought his "A-game" to the table on that occasion?
Who is to say that the NFA branch won't draft a new stipulation in the coming months or years that makes trusts a very difficult conduit to use for this sort of transfer?
On the subject of trusts, I think I would trust a lawyer’s B- (or C-, or D-, or …) game over a layman’s A+ game anytime. Why is it that everybody thinks he knows the law better than (or at least as well as) a lawyer?
The lawyer knows your address. Who is to say that he isn’t going to break in to your house, kill you, rape your wife, sell your kids into slavery, steal your NFA items, and burn your house down?
People on this forum are always saying you should purchase top-of-the-line stuff for your ARs/M16s/M4s … don’t buy Chinese knockoff scopes or rails made for airsoft guns, but instead spend the bucks for an Aimpoint scope or a Larue rail. But then they let some guy at a gun show form a trust to hold their expensive NFA items.
I don’t get it.