So here's possibly a dumb question. I just ordered a shotgun for my wife. Because of stipulations for how things are ordered when it comes to firearms, when the gun comes in to the shop and we go to pick it up, the only person who can pick it up is the person who placed the order - me.
I want this gun to legally be my wife's - not mine.
It used to be that you simply handed the gun over, said, "Here - this is yours!" - and that was it, or at least that's my rudimentary understanding of it.
I'm not sure what the process is now, but it's important to me that this gun becomes hers legally.
This gun is a gift for her so that we can shoot trap together, and she has a gun that fits her appropriately. We got her a BT-99 Micro with Adjustable LOP - her arms are just too short to use anything bigger, and that gun adjusts down fairly small, but it also dials out to 14.5" - I could feasibly use it if she ever tires of shooting trap. (Not likely - she's all in and pretty enthused about it.)
I've never done this before - but it seems to me that I'm going to have to take it to an FFL, do the transfer paperwork, and pay the fees, just like I would have to if it was someone else.
I want this gun to legally be my wife's - not mine.
It used to be that you simply handed the gun over, said, "Here - this is yours!" - and that was it, or at least that's my rudimentary understanding of it.
I'm not sure what the process is now, but it's important to me that this gun becomes hers legally.
This gun is a gift for her so that we can shoot trap together, and she has a gun that fits her appropriately. We got her a BT-99 Micro with Adjustable LOP - her arms are just too short to use anything bigger, and that gun adjusts down fairly small, but it also dials out to 14.5" - I could feasibly use it if she ever tires of shooting trap. (Not likely - she's all in and pretty enthused about it.)
I've never done this before - but it seems to me that I'm going to have to take it to an FFL, do the transfer paperwork, and pay the fees, just like I would have to if it was someone else.