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danastles

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lets just say, figuratively speaking of course this were to happen:

someone in my family recently passed away. they left all of their guns to me. these guns included some prohib class colt revolvers. i however dont have a prohib liscence. i have restricted. is it possible to gain a prohib liscence nowadays due to inheriting prohib guns? this might be a stupid question but could someone please fill me in.

dan
 
you can inherit the revolvers if made prior to 1946 provided it is a direct family member...otherwise the executor needs to dispose/sell them to someone who can possess them (or have police pick up for destruction but that is just wrong so don't)
 
If they aren't registered, restricted ones can be registered no problem. Prohibs cannot be registered and must be turned in, unless of course you were mistaken and none of them were prohibs after all.
 
If you were the executor of the will you would be able to posess them for a reasonable time (I've heard up to 2 years before they start hassling you to sell them ) but only legal counsellors could confirm that .
 
Brordo said:
you can inherit the revolvers if made prior to 1946 provided it is a direct family member...otherwise the executor needs to dispose/sell them to someone who can possess them (or have police pick up for destruction but that is just wrong so don't)
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Does this apply to only a gun older than 1946 or would 1 old one in a collection be enough to take posession?
My dad has a few prohibs that I always assumed that I could never own.
 
So to be clear...each handgun must be 1946 or older (not just one in a collection) and prohib rifles can't be inherited for 12(7) purposes
 
7Sagebrush7 said:
Does this apply to only a gun older than 1946 or would 1 old one in a collection be enough to take posession?
My dad has a few prohibs that I always assumed that I could never own.
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it only applies to guns manufactured pre-46, if part of the collection is post '46, you cant have those ones.

you can have as many pre-46 handguns as they want to will too you, and as another poster said, they dont have to be dead.
 
um, and an intersting point is that upon a prohib holder's death the Executor retains ALL the legal rights of the deceased to the property - plus a number of rights (due to being the Executor) that superceed the previous legal owner's rights. ie. the Executor does NOT require an ATT to transport for one.

ALSO, being an executor in this position I was advised by the CFO that the Executor has an undetermined amount of time to deal with the prohib's, the CFO then said ther is NO time limit.

SO, if you are an Executor and happened to be the one that the prohibs are being left too - well..... read between the lines....as far as what MAY be possible.
 
####ty deal!
I am in the same situation where I will be / not allowed to inheirit some prohib colt revolvers. and I am now forced to change the barrel to a length that will place it into the restricted class if I wish to keep it. Too bad because the 4" barrel in a 357Mag rocks!

Why are the Prohib barrel legths even applicable to revolvers seeing how they are phisically larger and harder to conceal than a semi-automatic pistol like a glock or 1911 or whatever. There should be a different barrel length requirment for revolvers or the chamber should be included into the measurement to be fair or equivalent to other firearms.

Any what happened in 1946 that was so revolutionary that we cannot have any thing post that year???
 
Definitely crappy deal...when my father-in-law passed away he had many prohibs. My wife didn't want any of them (I know, I know...couldn't talk her out of it) and thus had her mother (executrix) sell them off to some of his friends (they had the proper prohib status). This occurred some time ago now but still makes my skin crawl when I think of it.
 
Brordo said:
Definitely crappy deal...when my father-in-law passed away he had many prohibs. My wife didn't want any of them (I know, I know...couldn't talk her out of it) and thus had her mother (executrix) sell them off to some of his friends (they had the proper prohib status). This occurred some time ago now but still makes my skin crawl when I think of it.
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At least they went to good hands and not the smelter.
 
morper said:
Why are the Prohib barrel legths even applicable to revolvers seeing how they are phisically larger and harder to conceal than a semi-automatic pistol like a glock or 1911 or whatever. There should be a different barrel length requirment for revolvers or the chamber should be included into the measurement to be fair or equivalent to other firearms.

Any what happened in 1946 that was so revolutionary that we cannot have any thing post that year???
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I always figured that the 1946 was to allow transfer of WW2 heirlooms. Regarding 12.6 revolvers vs. autos -- of course you're right but we'd have no chance (at least in the current environment) of getting it changed...at least to our benefit. The likely outcome of any change would probably be an expansion of the 12.6 category to include all autos that are as big as a 4" revolver. :rolleyes:
 
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