Saturday, 12 October 2013 17:33

Suppressors & trusts - what did you do?

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I am sure that you all have heard the controversy surrounding ATF's proposed changes to NFA items and trusts. Mainly that they are trying to make a person a "responsible party" and therefore subject to additional requirements including the much elusive (and impossible to obtain in my neck of woods) CLEO sign off. There has been much written on it.

So, my question to you is if you have recently gone the trust route for a suppressor did you have a lawyer draft your trust, or did you use an online Gun Trust? I continue to read that ones created with generic box software (like Quicken) are getting rejected or worse revoked.

A quick search of buy "NFA Trust" returned a bunch. There was one for about $135 which you basically got the forms (including add/remove trustees) which seemed like a good deal, but had no support and is not not state centric. Others ranged from $200 and up. A few looked like you had to buy additional services for simple things like add/remove trustees. My understanding of how a trust works is that you should be able to do it on your own. Unless there is some type of legal agreement with the vendor disallowing you to do so. I do not like such restrictions.

Anyway, please let me know what route/vendor you went with. With Washington State's legalization of suppressor usage (it used to be legal to own but illegal to use) I am very curious.

Thanks!

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