So how do you explain buying a suppressor? Or building one? You are transferring it to the trust via the ATF. It is not necessary for the trust to own it first. Which is impossible in most cases.
So how do you explain buying a suppressor? Or building one? You are transferring it to the trust via the ATF. It is not necessary for the trust to own it first. Which is impossible in most cases.
Keep Calm and Carry.
Form 1 is making and registering a NFA item. A Form 4 transfers an already existing NFA registered item.
When a Trust makes and registers a NFA item from scratch, silencer or SBR, using a Form 1, the Trust is making and registering a NFA item that did not exist before. The Trust has to have the approved Form 1 in hand before it cuts metal. A regular non-NFA Title 1 gun must be owned by the Trust when it makes the SBR from a regular Title 1 gun.
You have to have an approved Form 1 for the Trust before cutting metal if the Trust is using a Form 1 to make and register a SBR from a 80% lower receiver. The Trust should own the lower receiver when it makes and registers a SBR made from a Colt lower receiver. The Trust can own the non-NFA lower. The Trust can't put a short upper on the lower until they have an approved Form 1 in hand.
A Trust can't possess an already registered NFA item until the transfer to the Trust is approved through a Form 4 transfer. For example, a Gemtec suppressor is already a NFA registered item. You are transferring, not making and registering, a registered silencer to the Trust.
I hope this helps.
I am not a lawyer. This is just my understanding of the laws and regulations.
Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless.