gun ownership question

Micah Cohen
Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
edited July 2010 in The Clubhouse
Hypothetical issue: I have inherited a couple of handguns. Not antiques, but modern guns. I have no real documentation with them. Yet, I don't want to be holding unlicensed guns, you know? So, what can/should I do? How do you get licenses or documentation for guns that you have inherited?

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  • PerfectCreature
    PerfectCreature Posts: 1,456
    edited July 2010
    Just leave it alone. I would what people don't know cannot hurt them.
    Not worth the trouble....
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited July 2010
    ^^^ No

    Micah, you may want to give your local PD a call and see what they say, assuming you haven't done so already. I've often wondered the same, but I've always bought mine new so they're registered to me from the get-go.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2010
    Send them to me.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    PerfectCreature wrote: »
    Just leave it alone. I would what people don't know cannot hurt them.
    Not worth the trouble....

    Uhh, owning unregistered / unlicensed firearms in a lot of states is a felony with mandatory jailtime. In MA if you are caught with a freakin' pellet gun without a license you're going to jail for a year. This is some bad advice.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2010
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    I've often wondered the same, but I've always bought mine new so they're registered to me from the get-go.

    They make you register guns in Texas? Wow!

    They don't even make you do that here and we don't have CCW.
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited July 2010
    Here, you do NOT have to register a gun. Run a check to make sure they aren't stolen. Don't get caught with a stolen or concealed weapon (unless you have a permit). Otherwise, as far as I know, you do NOT have to register a firearm. This is America fer chrissakes.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited July 2010
    Go to the NRA website and there will be links to state laws that cover this type of scenario.

    BTW - discussing anything to do with guns on this forum is taboo.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,384
    edited July 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Uhh, owning unregistered / unlicensed firearms in a lot of states is a felony with mandatory jailtime. In MA if you are caught with a freakin' pellet gun without a license you're going to jail for a year. This is some bad advice.

    "The right of the Citizenry to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed..."

    If you want to keep them, I would consult the NRA website as suggested, and follow the advice given there.
    If you want to keep them when they come around trying to take them from you, say nothing at all.
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2010
    anything to do with guns on this forum is taboo
    I have a taboo. Got it at the Museum in Baltimore. Yep.

    Anyway, these guns I might hypothetically have are not lost or stolen, I just don't know how to find out about updating probable existing (but not found) licensing and permiting.

    I'll check some of the websites mentioned.

    Ta-BOO!

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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited July 2010
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    "The right of the Citizenry to keep and bear arms shall NOT be infringed..."

    If you want to keep them, I would consult the NRA website as suggested, and follow the advice given there.

    If you want to keep them when they come around trying to take them from you, say nothing at all.

    I'm pretty sure bobman isn't in favor of the laws there. He's probably just suggesting that keeping unregistered guns in a state that requires them to be registered it isn't worth the felony that will be on your record for life.

    Laws vary from state to state.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    Demiurge wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure bobman isn't in favor of the laws there. He's probably just suggesting that keeping unregistered guns in a state that requires them to be registered it isn't worth the felony that will be on your record for life.

    Laws vary from state to state.

    What he said.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,384
    edited July 2010
    No worries on that Bob... I don't own anything more powerful than a Super Soaker, but when we live in an age where a 6 year old faces arrest and expulsion from school for making a gun out of his fingers, it is important to make clear what the founders set forth in the Constitution.

    When the people fear the Government, there is tyrany. When the Government fears the People, there is LIBERTY. The second ammendment exists exactly for that purpose.
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited July 2010
    If you're still in MD, looks like you're good unless it's a handgun: http://crime.about.com/od/gunlawsbystate/a/gunlaws_md.htm
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  • davidk0512
    davidk0512 Posts: 157
    edited July 2010
    Demiurge wrote: »
    They make you register guns in Texas? Wow!

    They don't even make you do that here and we don't have CCW.

    Registration is not required in Texas. If you buy a new or used firearm from a dealer, it will be registered. If you buy from an individual, no registration required. Personally, I wouldn't buy from someone I don't know, and I wouldn't buy something if the history is not known. If you happen to get questioned about a gun you are in possession of that has been reported stolen or used in a crime, you'll have some 'splaining to do.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited July 2010
    pssst, shoot me a p.m.. I know a guy...:p

    Seriously though, use the NRA website to find the nearest FFL, and he can unload them for you, via gunbroker.com, or auctionarms.com. Both sites are similar to ebay, but for wearpons.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited July 2010
    I assume you are still in NC. Since they are handguns, they must be registered.
    B. North Carolina Requirements

    Under North Carolina law, it is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, give away, transfer, purchase, or receive, at any place in the state, any pistol, unless the purchaser or receiver has first obtained a license or permit to receive such a pistol by the sheriff of the county where the purchaser or receiver resides, or the purchaser or receiver possesses a valid North Carolina-issued concealed carry permit. This requirement to obtain a permit prior to the transfer of a pistol applies not only to a commercial transaction, typically at a sporting goods store, but also between private individuals or companies throughout North Carolina. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-402(a)

    In addition, this State law has been interpreted to require that a pistol permit be obtained by the receiver of a handgun when such person inherits a pistol as a result of the death of another person. The permit should be given to and retained by the seller or donor of the handgun. In such a case, the permit should be given to the executor or receiver of the estate of the deceased person. If the purchaser or receiver uses a North Carolina- issued concealed carry permit for the transfer, the seller should reference such permit on a bill of sale.
    (Q) HOW DO I GET A HANDGUN PURCHASE PERMIT?

    ANSWER: Pistol permits may be obtained from the sheriff where the purchaser or receiver resides. An application must be submitted to the sheriff by the individual who desires to obtaina pistol permit, and must satisfy the requirements of North Carolina law. These requirements are set out in Section II. Of this publication.

    If it is a rifle or shotgun...no permit/registration is required.
    (Q) DO MY GUNS HAVE TO BE REGISTERED WITH THE SHERIFF OR POLICE DEPARTMENT WHERE I LIVE?

    ANSWER: Except as to the requirement to lawfully possess a machine gun under N.C.G.S. 14-409, North Carolina generally does not require other types of firearms to be registered with the sheriff or Police Department. The only type of "registration" requirement is that a purchaser or receiver of a pistol must first obtain a pistol permit, for each pistol, from the sheriff of the county in which he/she resides. Note: A local act requiring registration for Durham, N.C. is still valid law in the State.

    Here is the law where the above info came from:

    http://www.grnc.org/images/wa_2007NCFirearmsLawsPub.pdf
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  • PerfectCreature
    PerfectCreature Posts: 1,456
    edited July 2010
    We have never had to register guns unless you buy them new, or wanted a concealed weapons permit.
    Or unless you wanted to hunt with them....I mean....it is different for every state though. That was my bad.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited July 2010
    Research your local cities' law (thanks to a hiccup called "preemption"). The NRA is actively trying to do away with preemptive rules which just confuse things for law abiding citizens, trying to do the right thing--in essence, a state would have laws that covered the ENTIRE state, and no county, city, or otherwise could preempt the states law.

    Criminals don't research gun laws...imagine that.

    Me, I'd store them as hypothetical guns. Kind of a catch-22 huh? Now I'm no longer a "law abiding citizen" am I?
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  • PerfectCreature
    PerfectCreature Posts: 1,456
    edited July 2010
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Me, I'd store them as hypothetical guns. Kind of a catch-22 huh? Now I'm no longer a "law abiding citizen" am I?

    That what I was getting at....kind of. I mean, if you only use them for house protection or some sort....
    I don't know your call....
    The right thing would be to take them and get them registered.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,536
    edited July 2010
    Correct, I'd encourage doing it right; hopefully he doesn't lose them in the process of doing the "right" thing.
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  • davidk0512
    davidk0512 Posts: 157
    edited July 2010
    "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" Unknown Origin 1972?

    If they have a clean history, I'd prefer to have them hidden away just in case they're ever needed, nobody needs to know. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2010
    I am going to find out how to register them, or at least find out if they are already registered to the relative I got them from, hypothetically.

    It's weird thinking I'd go to someone and say, "I have a gun, please help me," but it would be weirder still to have someone break in here and be warned off by my waving of the hypothetical gun and then I'd have to figure out how to report the break in. How did I scare the guy off? With what? (Just my face? Could be.)

    Better to have it on the up-and-up. When the zombies come back it won't matter anyhow, and I'll have something to kill them with.

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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited July 2010
    Micah Cohen wrote: »
    Hypothetical issue: I have inherited a couple of handguns. Not antiques, but modern guns. I have no real documentation with them. Yet, I don't want to be holding unlicensed guns, you know? So, what can/should I do? How do you get licenses or documentation for guns that you have inherited?

    MC

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