Hope this is in the right forum. To keep it short and simple I inherited a AR-15 from my step-father after he passed away about 10 years ago. For a lot of reasons I wasn't in a good spot to get it shipped to MD, so it's been sitting in my folk's gun safe back home ever since.
Everything I read says that if you owned it pre-2013 it should be good, but the details are kind of fuzzy about if it needed to be in-state before then.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Edit: To clarify, home is out west so I just can't throw it in my trunk and drive back, I'd have to have it shipped, which as far as I can tell requires shipping to a FFL?
Edit 2: Talked to a lawyer about it, but they never got back to me. Ended up just emailing the MSP Firearms Services Section. They got back to me 5 minutes later and said that banned weapons owned before 2013 can be inherited and do not have to be specifically listed in the will. Went ahead and submitted a voluntary 77R to have a paper trail and after a brief conversation on the phone with one of the troopers it came back 'not disapproved'.
Everything I read says that if you owned it pre-2013 it should be good, but the details are kind of fuzzy about if it needed to be in-state before then.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Edit: To clarify, home is out west so I just can't throw it in my trunk and drive back, I'd have to have it shipped, which as far as I can tell requires shipping to a FFL?
Edit 2: Talked to a lawyer about it, but they never got back to me. Ended up just emailing the MSP Firearms Services Section. They got back to me 5 minutes later and said that banned weapons owned before 2013 can be inherited and do not have to be specifically listed in the will. Went ahead and submitted a voluntary 77R to have a paper trail and after a brief conversation on the phone with one of the troopers it came back 'not disapproved'.
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