Most of what I've heard when it comes to invalid trusts used for registering NFA items, is with how the assets/firearms are handled when the trustee dies or is incapacitated.
What is entertaining to me is when people say if you are setting up a trust for NFA items, just use Quicken (take a shortcut), but if you are putting other assets in it, use a lawyer. Doesn't really make sense to me. And if you have the mentality, "who will ever check," WOW, not illegal if you don't get caught, huh?
I do agree there is a verrry slim chance anyone will ever challenge the validity of your trust, hell the NFA has approved applications and issued stamps along with a note telling the person their trust is invalid. But there is also a slim chance that the average gun carrying citizen will ever have to use their firearm in self defense.
The one thing that was in the back of my head when I finally decided to go with an attorney and spend too much damn money for a trust, was this: What if I use my SBR in a not so popular self defense shooting (or in my case on-duty shooting) and the piece of shit that I fail to kill or the family of someone I do kill decides to sue me and their attorney digs up all this crap and it's found that my trust is invalid, therefore my NFA registered SBR is now illegal? To me it was worth protecting myself and my family. Just my .02.
One last thing, I'm pretty sure Quicken recommends you have a trust done with Willmaker reviewed by a lawyer, so why not just use an attorney.
Glock Armorer
"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."
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