NFA Gun Trust Lawyer Blog

While the public perceives NFA weapons as dangerous Guncite.com reports that there have only been two murders since 1934 involving legally registered Machine Guns and one of those was by a police officer.

Often I am asked if there are annual fees associated with a NFA Firearms trust.  In most states, there is no registration of a Firearms trust and because it is revocable there are no tax returns or governmental fees associated with the yearly maintenance of the NFA trust.  This is…

NFA TRUST FORMATION is a process of creating a Trust for the specific purpose of Purchasing Class III firearms and  transferring Class III firearms.  A NFA TRUST is specifically created to comply with the TItle II requirements in dealing with Class 3 firearms.  Class 3 Firearms are items regulated by…

If you send the certificate of Trust your application will be denied.  You must send the full Firearms Trust with the Form 4 

There are no yearly state or federal filing fees associated with a NFA trust.  We recommend opening a bank account at a bank that has no fees to keep the costs lower.  If the Trustee and the Beneficiary are different people the trusts require an annual Accounting. – A listing…

You may use your NFA Firearms/Gun Trust to purchase items in the future.  Assuming you are in a state that allows the purchase of the items you desire, you may use your firearms trust to purchase additional items without creating a new trust. You can purchase items this year, next…

Only the ATF and those you choose to tell will know about your NFA Gun Trust.  Like most revocable trusts they are not kept on file in most states so there is publicly available information on who created, manages, benefits from or what is contained in the trust.

When you fill out your form 4, a check for the fee, a copy of the full declaration of trust, and an assignment of the weapon should be sent in with the application. 

A NFA Gun Trust client of mine sent me this today and though some of you might enjoy it. Updated 12/9/2008After receiving many inquiries as to where this T-Shirt can be purchased I decided to search the web and found a link you can use.

I have decided to begin to show some of the more interesting NFA Firearms my clients have acquired or transferred using a Gun Trust.  Below is a German Light Panzer Machine Gun. If you have a unique class 3 items in your possession and would like us to post a…