You may want to spend some time thinking about this. As of right now, I don’t have any “illegal” firearms. However, that could change with the stroke of a pen at any time the other side gets one vote over half — and at any level of government. Would a trust, arranged before they became illegal, offer any protection from them from being confiscated (or ordered to be turned in)?
Probably not. A trust doesn’t make illegal firearms legal. It is a mechanism for making very-restricted firearms more easily transferable within a family, and gets around some of the legalities about non-owners using the firearm.
Trusts don’t circumvent background checks, or ATF approvals, or transfer requirements, or taxes, or fees ... etc. It streamlines the legalities, it doesn’t skip them.
If they confiscate ... they can confiscate from a trust. I’ve heard of weapons being confiscated from trusts that weren’t set-up right.
The only way I could see it helping is if they start treating ‘assault’ weapons like Class III weapons — meaning you’d have to jump through all the hoops now required of suppressors or full-autos. In that case, a trust would help a bit with the same things it helps with on suppressors or full-autos.
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