Cleo signature no longer required, just notification. Trusts will now require finger prints and pictures as well, maybe this will prevent the need for going the trust route.
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Cleo signature no longer required, just notification. Trusts will now require finger prints and pictures as well, maybe this will prevent the need for going the trust route.
The real problem with requiring backgrounds and fingerprints for the other trustees is that it will limit those who will be willing to do it. For example, my trust's beneficiary is my only heir, my daughter who is still a minor. My successor trustees are my wife, and a trusted friend who understands the process and would be able to help navigate my wife/daughter thru the process in the event of my death. In return, I am on his trust for the same purpose, and we have both already passed all the background checks. However, submitting fingerprints and backgrounds in the future for someone else's trust might create tension. Just as the CLEO's don't want to sign them (so in case something goes wrong - in their minds - it's not attributed to them) so may a trustee be more shy about being on someone else's trust (in case something goes wrong)....
I doubt any successor trustees on the trust that had the weapons Officer Dorner used were very happy about it at that moment....
"Those who do can't explain; those who don't can't understand"...
You seem to think I'm defending 41P and I'm not. As far as I'm concerned people should be able to buy whatever they want, including full auto, and without a bg check. We lived with these types of weapons for over a century before the Fed felt that the proles could no longer be trusted and they had to be taxed and regulated.
However, I disagree with your comment regarding theoretical abuse, LEO actions, etc. I've been shooting at ranges when BATF have quietly asked to see tax stamps for suppressors or SBRs. I've never seen BATF agents do anything other than check the persons ID and the tax stamps, etc. Maybe they are using their mobile to look the person up, but I didn't get that impression.
As I said, there is the possibility of abuse, I just don't think it's a real problem because criminals would seem to have very little incentive to go through the trouble of setting up trusts, paying tax stamps, etc, for items that they can probably get illegally anyway.
I've had an existing NFA trust for several years, with several weapons in the trust. Sent out a form 1 dated January 1, 2016. Included no finger prints or pictures. Am I correct that Obama's E.O's don't go into effect for 180 days? ATF NFA Branch in Atlanta cashed my $200 check today.
Maj. USAR (Ret) 160th SOAR, 2/17 CAV
NRA Life Member
Black Mesa Ranch. Raising Fine Cattle and Horses in San Miguel County since 1879
I haven't come across many NFA weapons in the wild, in the hands of criminals. The few that I have were short barrels. They were all shotguns. None were done well, think hacksaw job in a back shed. None were stamped. None had ever been stamped. They were all stolen firearms to begin with and none of the crooks were first timers. They got loved tenderly on a variety of charges.
In short, the POTUS is a liar and a scare monger in my opinion. Crooks do not want attention from LE. What more attention could one get, without being a crook of course, than to submit a form 1 or 4. Whether it is under a trust or not. It's attention and attention they do not want.
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