High Capacity Magazines and children

[RCCrawler]

So with the new laws taking effect I want to make sure my children have some magazines of their own. I currently have plenty on hand, that's not an issue.

My question is, should I maybe have a bill of sale notarized saying I sold X number of magazines to each of my children on X date?

I know it's currently legal for my children to own such magazines, my worry is though that if say in 20 years things haven't changed legally here in Colorado and my son is out shooting, no police officer will believe that he owned the magazines before 7/1/13 because he was 3 years old at that time.

If he could whip out a notarized receipt showing he took ownership before such the cutoff date he'd be covered.

Sound right, or am I over thinking this?

[Mazin]

Sounds good to me!

[UrbanWolf]

If you can find a notary that won't freak out then yeah.

[3beansalad]

No need to sell them to your children (unless you want to,) simply write up a letter gifting them and have it notarized before 1 July 2013. Will it hold up in court at a later date? Who knows, but it may.

There has also been some discussion of naming spouse and children as joint owners.

[KS63]

NFA Trust. List your children as Beneficiaries. That's what I did.

[kidicarus13]

Trust

[Jeff350]

I had NFATrustGuy draft me up a separate trust just for my non-NFA items, specifically for this reason. I have one daughter and a son on the way, so I couldn't just gift him mags for the future. Since the trust now owns the magazines, I can add the kids as beneficiaries and they should be able to possess them. I don't want to be the test case though!

[Chad4000]

do you think youd even have to have it notorized?

[hatidua]

my worry is though that if say in 20 years things haven't changed legally here in Colorado and my son is out shooting, no police officer will believe that he owned the magazines before 7/1/13 because he was 3 years old at that time.

20 years is a historically unfortunate increment of time when it comes to gun laws....I hope we can still legally own guns that accept detachable magazines 20 years from now.

20 years ago the first AWB had yet to occur
25 years before that, GCA68 had yet to occur
20 years from now...I shudder to think how things may be, -regardless of how much I donate to SAF/NRA/Etc. or how many banners I wave on the steps of the capitol building.

Getting something notarized is cheap though, so if doing so gives some level of comfort, go for it.

[3beansalad]

do you think youd even have to have it notorized?

Since your bank will commonly do this free of charge it is extra insurance showing it was written before the ban went into effect.