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Posted: 6/29/2006 10:53:05 AM EDT
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I tried searching but came up with nothing. I also tried looking on the archive but received a MySQL error. So. . . . . I am filling out these Form 5's and have some questons. Any help would be appreciated. Question 3c, Huh, I thought a decendant was the person living after the other person's death. What? Any ideas? Questions 5-8, I don't enter any information correct? Sections 15, Does the Transforee sign and date now, or when I die? Section 17, Do I need LEO signoff for a Form 5? I didn't think that was needed. Thanks for the help. |
decedent is the person who died; you're thinking of decendant, which is the child, grandchild, etc., of an individual. So in 3d and 3e you put the name of the decedent -- the now-dead person to whom the item was registered. In other words, you.
Not unless you, or the person you are leaving it to, holds a valid SOT or FFL.
You must sign this after you die.  No, seriously, if you are filling this out to make it easier for your estate to transfer these items, the transfer is handled by the estate or executor, not by you -- you're dead, remember? Thus, as far as the paperwork goes, you are not the transferee, you're the decedent. Whoever is handling the paperwork is the transferee.
It's not needed in an estate transfer. Remember, Form 5s are used for many different types of transfers -- for instance, the same Form 5 is used if an LE agency sells a surplus NFA item to a civilian, and in that case, a CLEO signoff is needed. |
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One more note of explanation (and I just called W.Va. to confirm this, because it just seemed so weird): If, for instance, you are leaving your NFA items to your wife, and she is also the executor of your estate, you wife will be listed as both transferee (2a&2b) and transferor (3a,3b,3c). Your name, as the dead-as-doornails registered owner, will only appear in box 3d. |
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