Posted: 1/8/2013 4:36:27 AM EDT
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Hey Guys, My mother in law is looking to give me a dozen or so guns that were her late husbands. The trick is that she lives in Wisconsin and I live in Georgia. What is the easiest way for HER to transfer these guns to me in Georgia? She is a 70 year old lady with ZERO knowledge of guns and wouldn't even begin to know how to check and make sure they are not loaded. Her husband passed away about 15 years ago and was an avid outdoors man, so I would "assume" he practiced proper gun storage and left the firearms in the cabinet unloaded but i can not be certain as I was never fortunate enough to meet the gentlemen.
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Fly in. Rent car. Load car. Drive home. Return rental car. Enjoy awesome new additions to collection. Sounds reasonable. Might want to check on the laws of the states you'll be traveling through just to make sure you don't get pinched transporting an "arsenal" at a traffic stop or something. |
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With shipping and transfer fee's and the trouble for her to take them to a dealer to transfer them, fly in and drive a rental car back sounds like the best idea. If you only want 10 guns out of it, I'll fly up there and bring them back 
Srsly. "Have FF miles, will deliver."
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| Thanks guys, I'm unfamiliar with the exact number and type of firearms. I do know the gentlemen was hunter and i believe it was for deer and pheasant. So i would assume there to be a few deer rifles and a couple shotguns. I dont get the impression he would of have any sporting rifles, but who knows??? Its like Xmas for dad!!! |
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I was helping my Father-in-law with some old rifles/shotguns that he got from his Dad. They were wrapped in plastic or newpaper, etc. 3 were loaded and 2 had rounds in the chamber. He thought they were all unloaded. Be careful!!
Have a nice trip! Wisconsin is prolly COLD this time of year. ETA: he recently gave me his Dad's Marlin 39 Golden to pass down to Jr. It will be a 4 generation gun.
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isn't it illegal though to do FTF transactions with someone who isn't in your state? guess I'm confused on the technicality here, someone fill me in you are correct. the legal way for this to happen is to have them transfered through a FFL. even being given to you, you must still go through the FFL in order to abide by the letter of the law. personally, I'd just drive, but I'm not a lawyer, and have never claimed to do things the right way |
