solarpower44
Active Member
That is correct. The language of the actual statute says that you must retain proof of registration (i.e. a Form 1 or Form 4) and provide that proof to "the secretary" (at the time, the Secretary of the Treasury, now the Secretary of HS) upon request. It does NOT specify a time frame within which you have to provide that proof. Some other states have laws stating that you have to have that proof with you all the time, but Maryland does not.
Yes actually, I do. I don't want to normalize or contribute to the idea that NFA items are somehow so special or so dangerous or so quasi-illegal that we have to carry special papers around with them all the time. If someone on staff at a given range wants to question me on my NFA stuff, I'll have a polite conversation with them and explain that while they are legally owned, I don't carry the paperwork with me because I am not required to do so. After that, if they want me to leave, I will leave. I've never been questioned by anyone, though.
I'm quite willing to have that conversation (it need not be an argument) in order to help other people understand that there's nothing special or extra dangerous about NFA stuff, and that we are NOT required to carry paperwork. There's enough FUD surrounding the NFA as it is, and I don't want to contribute to it.
Is this also true for MG?