MD takes your registered guns when you die???

[FrankAR15]

So a guy from my work just went through the HQL course last night and calls me after it was over.

One of the things they told him was that any REGISTERED firearms will get confiscated by the state when you die, **unless**, you specifically list them and leave them to someone in your Will.

I don't even have a Will yet! Plus the gun I transferred to my Dad would not go back to me if it isn't listed in His Will???

I'm really hoping He got this info mixed up or wrong.....

I did a quick search, but nothing related came up.

 

[Ab_Normal]

Not surprising either way. The state wants everything else from you when you die.

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

Truth or fiction? While it may be true, it may not be. Strange there's not more knowledge of it if it's true. It wouldn't come as any surprise to me that these bastards that govern us slipped this in somewhere. It achieves their purpose to reduce the number of guns that citizens have. Mind you, they could spend that very same time and energy they currently invest in divesting us from our rights, on doing a better job keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally/emotionally impaired and the FN criminals.

How many times do we have to hear about somebody with appalling and clearly evident emotional issues doing something heinous with a gun? Similarly, how many times do we find a criminal with one or more serious (felony) convictions committing yet another angry violent crime with a weapon???

Instead of crafting and shoving down our throats legislation that ABJECTLY FAILS to make people safer, it only blatantly ignores our Constitution, they should do the difficult task of keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and the "insane". That would be artful. That would be purposeful. That would be worthwhile.

Why don't they focus their time and energy on that??? Useless, shameful, patronizing bastards. Shame on them for doing the easy and patently wrong thing instead of the more difficult and clearly righteous thing. They have no values and no honor. F 'em.

 

[TTMD]

So a guy from my work just went through the HQL course last night and calls me after it was over.

One of the things they told him was that any REGISTERED firearms will get confiscated by the state when you die, **unless**, you specifically list them and leave them to someone in your Will.

Please ask your friend to provide the statute or regulation that the instructor gave as the foundation for this.

 

[Uncle Duke]

Truth or fiction? While it may be true, it may not be. Strange there's not more knowledge of it if it's true. It wouldn't come as any surprise to me that these bastards that govern us slipped this in somewhere. It achieves their purpose to reduce the number of guns that citizens have. Mind you, they could spend that very same time and energy they currently invest in divesting us from our rights, on doing a better job keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally/emotionally impaired and the FN criminals.

How many times do we have to hear about somebody with appalling and clearly evident emotional issues doing something heinous with a gun? Similarly, how many times do we find a criminal with one or more serious (felony) convictions committing yet another angry violent crime with a weapon???

Instead of crafting and shoving down our throats legislation that ABJECTLY FAILS to make people safer, it only blatantly ignores our Constitution, they should do the difficult task of keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and the "insane". That would be artful. That would be purposeful. That would be worthwhile.

Why don't they focus their time and energy on that??? Useless, shameful, patronizing bastards. Shame on them for doing the easy and patently wrong thing instead of the more difficult and clearly righteous thing. They have no values and no honor. F 'em.

Amen! My sentiments exactly! Spot on and well said sir!

 

[NateIU10]

Having an attorney draft your estate plan is important. Having one that understands the issue firearms presents is just as important. I am completely biased though.

 

[spclopr8tr]

SB281 stipulates regulated, not registered, firearms may passed from the owner to their estate for inheritance. It does not say the regulated firearms have to be specified in a will. IANAL, but I am hoping one chimes in, because the info put out at the HQL class sounds bogus to me.

 

[my69rox]

old saying " Pry from my cold dead hands " yea right do not see this happen .

 

[SRD]

Registration is voluntary.

 

[SRD]

Please ask your friend to provide the statute or regulation that the instructor gave as the foundation for this.

This

 

[teratos]

SB281 stipulates regulated, not registered, firearms may passed from the owner to their estate for inheritance. It does not say the regulated firearms have to be specified in a will. IANAL, but I am hoping one chimes in, because the info put out at the HQL class sounds bogus to me.

This.

There is nothing in Maryland law that says anything about the State taking possession of firearms upon your death.

 

[FrankAR15]

Please ask your friend to provide the statute or regulation that the instructor gave as the foundation for this.

It was a class. He said it was given from a retired Baltimore police officer. She didn't quote the statute number. But it sounds like from a previous comment that maybe this isn't true. Thank God!

But I guess it wouldn't hurt to leave them to someone just in case.

 

[ThawMyTongue]

Could your friend or the instructor have gotten "registered" and "previously regulated, now banned" confused? As I understand, the only way to prevent a banned but grandfathered firearm from confiscation when you die is to will it.

 

[Gryphon]

If you die intestate (without a will) there is a statutory scheme that dictates who can be appointed to administer your estate and what happens to the estate assets which will include your firearms. Under most circumstances your assets will be distributed (by the administrator) to your surviving wife, your children, and in the absence of either back up through your parents and down through your siblings - all depending on the actual circumstances. The transfer of firearms during this process should be documented per applicable state and federal law during the process by the administrator and the recipient (also referred to as a "taker" or "beneficiary").

There is only one very ironic circumstance that I know of where firearms would be transferred from your estate to the "local government." That's in the event you do not have a will, and there are no identifiable heirs under the intestacy statute, in which case your assets (including your firearms) will escheat to the local public school board! After all, its for the children!

 

[TTMD]

It was a class. He said it was given from a retired Baltimore police officer. She didn't quote the statute number. But it sounds like from a previous comment that maybe this isn't true. Thank God!

But I guess it wouldn't hurt to leave them to someone just in case.

There are a number of us who give the HQL class, and while most of us are not attorneys, a good number of us have spent time in the regs & statutes. When we give the 1hour "legal" portion of the 4 hr minimum HQL course, many of us are careful to provide the specific section of the law/regs from which our content derives. That said, the entire law portion begins with big red letters that say "I am not a lawyer and YOU are responsible for ensuring your compliance with the law." Anyway, this is the first time I've heard this particular point made. It would be interesting to hear the instructors basis. And for what it's worth, I wouldn't accept someone's active or retired LEO status as an indication of their knowledge of the finer points of the law.

That said, I would encourage your friend, and everyone else, to research this for themselves, not on MDShooters, but in the MD Law Articles (statutes), and in the COMAR (regulations that guide the enforcement of the statutes.)

But again, IANAL. There are several here though, such as NateIU10, who will likely be able to nail down the veracity if your friends' instructors claim.

 

[SRD]

It was a class. He said it was given from a retired Baltimore police officer. She didn't quote the statute number. But it sounds like from a previous comment that maybe this isn't true. Thank God!

But I guess it wouldn't hurt to leave them to someone just in case.

I "think" I know who the instructor was and if so (I could be wrong) I think something might have been misinterpreted.She's not one to just spew things that aren't facts.

 

[FrankAR15]

That said, I would encourage your friend, and everyone else, to research this for themselves, not on MDShooters, but in the MD Law Articles (statutes), and in the COMAR (regulations that guide the enforcement of the statutes.)

But again, IANAL. There are several here though, such as NateIU10, who will likely be able to nail down the veracity if your friends' instructors claim.

We'll of course!!! I was trying to just get a popular opinion answer quick! After all, I could die at anytime. Lol

As stated previously, I'm thinking maybe it was "banned items". I will talk to my co-worker again on Monday and get more info on what exactly was said.

 

[Alphabrew]

This sounds totally bogus to me. All of my guns, as much as I love them, will see a chop saw before they are taken by the government to be used against citizens or wind up in the personal collection of a government enforcer.

 

[ShallNotInfringe]

If you die intestate (without a will) there is a statutory scheme that dictates who can be appointed to administer your estate and what happens to the estate assets which will include your firearms. Under most circumstances your assets will be distributed (by the administrator) to your surviving wife, your children, and in the absence of either back up through your parents and down through your siblings - all depending on the actual circumstances. The transfer of firearms during this process should be documented per applicable state and federal law during the process by the administrator and the recipient (also referred to as a "taker" or "beneficiary").

There is only one very ironic circumstance that I know of where firearms would be transferred from your estate to the "local government." That's in the event you do not have a will, and there are no identifiable heirs under the intestacy statute, in which case your assets (including your firearms) will escheat to the local public school board! After all, its for the children!

There ya go. Thank you Esquire.

 

[Sirex]

"Dad's guns? What guns?"