Did you do it through a gun trust?
Shocked the hell out of me when the class 3 guy said I could own a machine gun through my gun trust. Not that I have THAT kind of cash to throw around.
Nope, my name only. While I understand the motivations for the trust route, I don’t trust (pun) it: being a path used for bureaucratic purposes, it can be screwed up with the stroke of a BATFE rule-changing pen. I’d rather the guns be registered to ME, because they’re MINE, and any stupid things the gov’t does to the NFA category won’t somehow render them not mine (as in: “Oh, sorry Mr. Flagg, we’ve decided that legal constructs aren’t people after all so we’re going to confiscate that very expensive machinegun; it legally isn’t yours, you know...”). Yeah that makes some things a bit harder/expensive like transferring to heirs, but that’s less subject to legal weirdness.
Dang. I just made up that scenario and it’s scaring me what the feds could do with it if they just got creative enough.